In our quest to keep our readers up to date with the latest stories relating to the food truck industry has compiled a list of the stories that hit the wire this past weekend from Fayetteville, Wilmington, Toronto and New Orleans.

January 17

Momentum builds for more food trucks in Fayetteville – FAYETTEVILLE, NC – Thanks to recent efforts, Fayetteville may be on the verge of some major growth in the number of food trucks in the city.

A recent update to city law makes it much easier for food trucks to set up in Fayetteville. The “R Burger” food truck is the first example of how the change is helping entrepreneurs who are interested in operating a food truck business.

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Pop-ups, Food Trucks Find Stationary Spots – WILMINGTON, NC – On a Friday afternoon, chef Matthew Gould would normally be last-minute shopping and prepping exotic dishes such as pork belly with smoked wood jus and juniper or snap pea panna cotta for his weekend pop-up restaurant Canape.

This particular Friday, however, Gould was scheduling contractors, managing commercial kitchen regulations and wondering where to find time to refurbish a bar made out of whiskey barrels.

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January 18

Free Toronto’s food trucks from the shackles of bureaucracy – TORONTO, CANADA – We’ll know we’re world class when you can buy bugs-on-a-stick for lunch on a downtown street.

Or panfried snails, roasted duck heads, or fricasseed rat.

Right, maybe not fricasseed rat, though I did enjoy some in the Amazon once.

Anyway, I hunger for the day our street meat measures up, when our bureaucrats quit mucking it up.

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January 19

NOCCA high school will launch a food truck – NEW ORLEANS, LA – Not all the students at NOCCA are old enough to drive, but soon they’ll be operating a truck. The students in the high school’s culinary arts program are preparing to open the Boxcar food truck to serve the surrounding Bywater neighborhood.

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