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The app, which originally launched in Atlanta, is available in eight cities. TruckSpotting gives out GPS units to truck owners and the truck’s location shows up on the website and the iPhone and Android apps.
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 app gives the location of the food truck, and tells the user whether it’s open or not. The thinking behind is it to be really easy to use and very reliable.
The path to one wallet, one application on your phone that holds all of your receipts and keeps track of your spending and helps you make payment from whatever card you want, is still going to be a couple of iterations away
When you place the order via the app (or through Faceback if you like Chando’s fan page), it rings like an old-fashioned phone at the restaurant, where a small display screen lists the order. After we placed our order, we received a message on our phone telling us the time the order would be ready
Each day the food trucks provide time slots when their demand and location will allow them to deliver. Then, 15-20 individuals from various companies, in the same building, can sign up in each slot to get their food delievered at that time. This means that the food trucks will be able to treat it like a more valuable group order. Still, the customers will be able to order individually and have no minimum requirement for their order.
