Earlier this month, bad weather rained out The Star’s Food Truck Friday, a gathering of Kansas City food trucks in the newspaper’s parking lot at 18th and McGee.
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.
Well, I’ve been waiting three years and the city of Liberty has always been very supportive, but it’s been ironic that my Liberty-based business hasn’t been able to do business in Liberty.
Local Pig is expanding its butcher shop business with a permanently parked food truck called Pigwich.
Roaming Hunger, a food-truck locator, launched in KC Wednesday. The site, which allows eaters to find the current locations of trucks as well as book them for catering or events (Roaming Hunger derives its revenue from bookings), represents the fulfillment of a pledge that founder Ross Resnick made to lead developer John Morgan Martin as he built the site in 2009.
That’s what we wanted to do, to draw people into the businesses, create lead generation. If they change locations, that’s really important for them to make money. … What we really want to get out of this is to help these guys out
To aid with the ministry’s fundraising efforts, he bought a concession trailer
Consider this your primer on how to launch your own food truck
Venus Van Horn, the chef and co-owner of the Magical Meatball Tour, cooks by Google.
Chef Venus Horn talks about her meatball food truck.
