Category: Business

While we are new to the Food Truck business, we are not new to capacity planning. I, the owner, Chris, spent many years in IT planning and executing projects and capacity planning is pretty straight forward for just about anything. You just need to know what you are planning for. In the case of events where you want a Food Truck or two, there are some pretty simple things we have figured out on our own. We also validated some of this through some internet research, and we’ve compiled some of the information in one place for event planners to hopefully use. Also, I get it, you want variety so you want multiple trucks, but that usually ends up hurting each food vendors ability to have a decent sales day. If you have other input please do leave some comments to help others. So let’s get to it and help everyone in the process.

As we get closer to hitting the road, the topic of “Convenience Fees” and “Surcharges” is something we see lately as a consumer ourselves. Interestingly we had a question on our November Survey about this and the responses were interesting. We will show those down below but let’s hit the main point from our perspective as a merchant and as a consumer. Personally we don’t like this way of doing business (as a consumer), and as a merchant we’ve researched it and frankly….there’s too many things you are “supposed” to do to be compliant with the merchant agreements. So when it comes to our new food truck, what does this mean to you?