Ever since you were a kid, you could be found in the kitchen. You’d help out mom and dad with dinner, even packing your own gourmet peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for school lunches. As you got older, that dream of being in the food truck industry, which is worth $1.2 billion, seemed like a distant…
The food truck industry is more popular than ever before. But, are food trucks profitable? That depends on if you know how to do it right. There are many motivations for ditching the brick-and-mortar model in favor of the flexibility of food trucks. You can experiment with new recipes and ideas. You get to reach out to your…
Photo: foodiesfeed / Freepik Lack of access to fresh foods, in areas called food deserts, is not a new problem, but it’s also not getting much better. In 2010, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) identified more than 18 million people living in food deserts. Of those, only 1.4 million got access to a new supermarket…
As you’re sitting in traffic on your commute, have you ever looked around and wondered what each of the trucks around you was transporting? You probably haven’t because most people don’t. It may surprise you, then, to learn how many of them are refrigerated. People tend to think of refrigerated delivery transportation as a specialized industry. In…
In 2018, the food truck industry was worth over $2 billion dollars and was growing at a rate of close to 5%. If you were thinking about getting into the food truck industry, you’re not alone. Starting a food truck service isn’t what you think though. We debunk the theories about the industry one myth at a…