Sunday, February 27, 2011
Saturday, February 19, 2011
Food Truck Tips
My first week of food truck business and now realize why we do not have one in Columbia...too much work! I prep food for two hours to sell food for 1 hour and then clean up for 2 hours. Even with all this preparation and cleaning I wouldn't change what I am doing for the world. It is so exciting to pull up to your stop and see people come out of the building and line up for YOUR food. While on my food truck adventure, I have decided to post food truck tips and funny stories of my happenings from day to day.
My first food truck tip is to secure all food before taking off for the next. I had a huge crock pot of gravy that had ridden fine for an hour when suddenly while going around a turn the entire crock pot fell off the counter and spilled onto to floor. Why must it always be the hardest and messiest thing to fall! I cleaned gravy off the floor for 15 minutes and still couldn't get it all off the floor.
Unfortunately food truck tip #2 came the same day! After cleaning the truck from the breakfast route, I was running around to get everything set up for the Bellamy Brothers concert I was going to work. So, after securing one of the best locations possible, buying signs, groceries, change, gas, etc I was ready to rock and roll. I came to the truck around 8:00 and anticipating my 500 hungry people, I started making tacos and hot dogs. I had already placed an order for 10 XLARGE pizzas to be sold around 10:00. By 9:00, I was ready to sell, but not much action, did a little more cleaning and hanging out until 10:00. By this time, I had to go to the bathroom REALLY bad so decided this would probably be my only chance to get this out of the way. I walked over to the bar where it was unusually quiet and dead. The owner said that he had sold over 500 tickets and I was wondering where all the people are. I went in to the bar and asked when the Bellamy Brothers were going to be on stage, The door guy broke my heart ...they don't get here until tomorrow!! Here I am 10 pizzas, 50 hot dogs,, and 15 lbs of taco meat ready to sell, I decided to go marketing. Dropped off the pizzas to Whiskey Wild Saloon and while I was cleaning up, I sold three tacos to some lost, drunk college kids looking for a ride. Sigh
My first food truck tip is to secure all food before taking off for the next. I had a huge crock pot of gravy that had ridden fine for an hour when suddenly while going around a turn the entire crock pot fell off the counter and spilled onto to floor. Why must it always be the hardest and messiest thing to fall! I cleaned gravy off the floor for 15 minutes and still couldn't get it all off the floor.
Unfortunately food truck tip #2 came the same day! After cleaning the truck from the breakfast route, I was running around to get everything set up for the Bellamy Brothers concert I was going to work. So, after securing one of the best locations possible, buying signs, groceries, change, gas, etc I was ready to rock and roll. I came to the truck around 8:00 and anticipating my 500 hungry people, I started making tacos and hot dogs. I had already placed an order for 10 XLARGE pizzas to be sold around 10:00. By 9:00, I was ready to sell, but not much action, did a little more cleaning and hanging out until 10:00. By this time, I had to go to the bathroom REALLY bad so decided this would probably be my only chance to get this out of the way. I walked over to the bar where it was unusually quiet and dead. The owner said that he had sold over 500 tickets and I was wondering where all the people are. I went in to the bar and asked when the Bellamy Brothers were going to be on stage, The door guy broke my heart ...they don't get here until tomorrow!! Here I am 10 pizzas, 50 hot dogs,, and 15 lbs of taco meat ready to sell, I decided to go marketing. Dropped off the pizzas to Whiskey Wild Saloon and while I was cleaning up, I sold three tacos to some lost, drunk college kids looking for a ride. Sigh
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