Food Truck Menus
From menu design to culinary lessons as well as our recipe index, we’ve got the menu solution for your food truck.
Menu Design
Developing The Right Menu For Your Food Truck
As an owner of a gourmet mobile food business you want to impress your customers. This starts the moment they walk up to your service window. Outside of your food truck design, the best way [...]
Correct Portion Sizes Are Essential For Food Truck Success
Correct portion sizes are essential for food cost and quality control in your food truck. They reduce food waste, ensures a consistent and quality product, expedites food preparation and service, and has a big impact [...]
Daily Menu Specials: 5 Tips To Keep Your Customers Coming Back
Developing a rock solid menu is essential for running a successful food truck, but fantastic daily menu specials can supercharge your customers and keep them coming back for more. Taking photos of your daily specials [...]
Sourcing Local Food For Your Food Truck Menu Ingredients
Local food. It sounds great on paper, and it may even be the thing food truck patrons claim they care about most. But the reality is that food trucks are businesses. Sounding good isn’t going [...]
Menu Makeover: Alter Your Menu Without Changing The Food You Serve
Having a well-developed and organized menu to represent your food can make a world of difference to your food truck's success. Take a look at your food truck menu. Look at it as if you [...]
Sell More Beverages from Your Food Truck
It’s apparent that vendors in the mobile food industry recognize that food is the king of their business. Today we'll discuss ways to sell more beverages from your food truck. Operators, managers and cooks push the entrees, [...]
Limit Menu Offerings In Your Food Truck Menu Design
If you go to a food truck that is really doing well, you’ll find a menu design with limited offerings. It may change daily but each day’s offerings will be minimal. Large, corporate restaurant chains can afford to [...]
Adding Iron Rich Foods To Your Food Truck Menu
Iron helps your blood cells carry oxygen throughout your body, it helps your immune system fight effectively, and it is necessary to get the energy from the food you eat. This is why food truck's [...]
Adding Vegetarian Menu Items To Your Food Truck Menu
So, you've weighed your options carefully, studied the pros and the cons, and decided that serving those who have chosen a vegetarian lifestyle is right for your food truck. But how do you start making changes [...]
Cut Your Food Truck Carbon Footprint With The Food Your Serve
The Environmental Working Group released a study on the carbon footprint of 20 different foods' life cycles, including energy used and methane gas produced. Everything from lamb to turkey was included. Emissions were classified as [...]
Culinary Lessons
Useful Facts About Organic Vegetables Food Truck Owners Should Know
Today we will focus our attention on one of the pros and cons to food truck owners using organic vegetables in their menus. Even those trucks or carts that have primarily meat filled menus, they [...]
Why It’s Important To Have A Food Tasting System On Your Food Truck
For most people who have ever been taught to cook, whether it was from a family member or in culinary school, you learned early on that you need to taste your food as you are [...]
Create Bacon Wrapped Dishes To Add Some Sizzle To Your Menu
Most people agree that everything tastes better with bacon. Wrapping foods in bacon is a fad with serious staying power. The unique and addictive flavor of it keeps most food truck operators coming back to it. The [...]
Cooking Vegetarian Foods On Your Food Truck
Whether your food truck customers are strict vegetarians, vegans or you simply want to add a few vegetarian meals into your menu rotation, Cooking vegetarian meals can be done as easily as any meat-based dish.you [...]
Pump Up The Volume Of Your Food Truck Veggies
Treating your food truck veggies with the same respect you would a nice cut of meat and knowing how to cook them and which seasonings might enhance them is critical to a food truck's menu. Whether [...]
Arugula: A Superfood For Bones On Food Trucks
As our readers know our Monday featured articles are set aside for the promotion of the Meatless Monday food program. In today’s article we will focus our attention on healthy source of nutrients and low [...]
Food Trucks And Vegetarianism Are A Great Match
Since our inception we've been writing articles covering the Meatless Monday craze. Some have asked us why, and we tell them that food trucks and vegetarianism are a great match. It is a program that not [...]
Fresh Produce Food Safety Tips
Fruits and vegetables are an important part of many food truck menus. Because of this, fresh produce must be handled safely to reduce the risks of delivering foodborne illness to your customers or food truck [...]
Proper Food Portioning For Your Food Truck
Food portioning, while often overlooked, needs to be looked at as one of the most important activities in your food truck business. Not only does food portioning make an immediate impact on your customers' experience but [...]
Effective Solutions For Safe Food Truck Glove Use
Last week while speaking with one of our clients they interrupted our call to tell me he had to reschedule because a health inspector had just shown up for a follow up to a random [...]
Recipe Index
Authentic Carne Asada Taco Recipe
The traditional taco truck has been cruising around California streets well for over 40 years. Most have menus with various styles of tacos, but in most cases, their best sellers have been their authentic carne asada [...]
Recipe: Homemade Fig Newtons
If you are like me, you spend time analyzing your favorite store bought foods and try to figure out how to make them yourself. Today I will share a recipe for for one of my [...]
Recipe: Ketchup
Forget about buying this American staple—homemade is so much better and an inspired way to use up those extra tomatoes. Ketchup Yield: 3 pints Ingredients 4 quarts (about 24) ripe tomatoes, peeled, cored, and chopped 1 [...]
Recipe: Gnocchi
With today being National Potato Day and last night's premier of season 4 of The Great Food Truck Race we thought this recipe for gnocchi from Tyler Florence would be a great match for sharing [...]
Recipe: Ginger Sweet Chicken and Broccoli Stir-Fry
Chef Rocco DiSpirito's healthy Now Eat This! Truck brings fresh food and nutrition education to kids in need.This makeover of the traditional Chinese chicken dish has all the tasty ginger flavor and a touch of sweetness, but [...]
Recipe: Brisket Tacos
Today is National Brisket Day, and thus we felt that an easy to go recipe using brisket would be appropriate for a mobile food vendor. Brisket Tacos Prep Time: 15 minutes | Cook Time: 4.5 hours | Yield: 6-8 tacos [...]
Recipe: Tequila Shrimp Tacos
Today is National Shrimp Day and to celebrate we are sharing a fantastic shrimp taco recipe from Taceaux Loceaux, a "Crazy Good", New Orleans food truck. Tequila Shrimp Tacos Prep Time: 10 minutes | Cook Time: 5 minutes | Yield: 4 tacos [...]
Recipe: Lamb Gyros
Although today is National Roasted Leg of Lamb Day, we felt that a lamb gyro recipe would be more appropriate for a mobile food vendor. That being said, Roasted Leg of Lamb would make for a tasty [...]
Recipe: Chicken Adobo Empanadas
Today is National Empanada Day and the Empanada Intifada, a guerilla gourmet food truck serving SlapYourThigh delicious, life-reaffirming, health-promoting, local, seasonal, damn-near-treasonously good empanadas from New Orleans has shared their recipe for Chicken Adobo Empanadas in honor of this occasion. Chicken [...]
Recipe: Eggplant Parmesan
Today is National Eat Italian Food Day and Papa Perrone of Jianetto's Pizza Truck out of New York City shared his recipe for Eggplant Parmesan in honor of this occasion. Eggplant Parmesan Prep Time: 10 minutes | Cook Time: 35 [...]
