The Cambridge festival will feature children’s activities, sampling tables and entertainment, in addition to food trucks from all over New England. Partial proceeds will benefit the MIT Sean Collier Memorial Fund.
The locally-designed app allows frequenters of Toronto’s now-famous and ubiquitous food trucks to locate their favourite cuisine, be it cupcakes or tacos, across the city.
The Kansas City startup’s app—available nationwide—helps foodies find and interact with local food trucks, which have the opportunity to use the app as a location-based marketing tool that can automate social media, send push alerts to app users and create virtual punch cards.
The Nashville Food Truck Association has declared May as “Nashville Street Food Month” and is celebrating with the launch of its smartphone app, available in both iPhone and Android formats (powered by ToGoOrder.com).
Gone are the days of relying on social media and individual Web sites to find your favorite food truck. In conjunction with its inaugural Nashville Street Food Month in May, the Nashville Food Truck Association is launching a mobile app that lists the schedule for food truck locations in the greater Nashville area
Food trucks have been on the radar at recent Vancouver city council meetings as the number of food carts grow and permits are reviewed. Council has suggested using Portland as a model as the food cart business continues to gain popularity in Vancouver.
The gourmet food truck craze has been tantalizing foodies everywhere for several years now, but as far as we know, our area has never had an entire weekend festival to celebrate them.
Saturday’s weather forecast looks positively balmy — 75 degrees! — which is very good news for the food trucks that will brake for the season’s first Justice League of Street Food bash. Eight trucks will congregate on the northeast corner of Colfax Avenue and Stuart Street from 2 to 8 p.m., officially ushering in spring food truck mania.
I think that Atlanta has had a lot of ancient rules and regulations; the city didn’t have an infrastructure or the legislation in place to support a food truck industry. When we started the Atlanta Food Truck Park & Market last year we had 20 food trucks and there are now 60 to 80. [The park can hold up to 15 trucks at a time.]
Food trucks and carts have in recent years gone from being considered “roach coaches” to being a trendy new way to try unfamiliar and novel cuisines, such as Korean-TexMex fusion. Social media have helped fuel their popularity, letting hungry city-dwellers know where they can find their favorite truck on a given day.
