Category archives for: Pennsylvania

Allentown, PA: Get Your Sugar Fix at Allentown and Emmaus Cupcake Trucks

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Her most popular cupcake is Banana Fluffernutter, which won an award at ArtsQuest’s Cupcake Bowl. She make more than 20 varieties and often comes up with new flavors for special events. For Cinco de Mayo, she created chocolate chipotle and mango jalapeno cupcakes. Other popular flavors are lemon berry, strawberries and cream, vanilla bean and chocolate peanut butter.

Philadelphia, PA: Phair Open Air Market Sets Food Truck Lineup

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With the inaugural date set for May 18, Jennifer Schick reached out to let us know the roster of food trucks she’s enlisted for Phair.

Wilkes-Barre, PA: Hungry for more Loved – and hated – Scranton Food Truck Testing Wilkes-Barre’s Waters

Times-Shamrock file James Bodnar, Katie Graziosi and Mario Bevilacqua in their gourmet food truck, What the Fork, in Dunmore in August. Mr. Bevilacqua, a co-owner of the business, says he'll test the Wilkes-Barre market for food trucks at the Mayday music festival.

Some food trucks already operate in Wilkes-Barre. As long as food truck owners pay a license fee, they are allowed to work in Wilkes-Barre for the year

Wilkes-Barre-PA: Food Trucks, Controversial in Scranton, Heading to Wilkes-Barre

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A food truck welcomed by customers and not welcomed by some restaurants in the Scranton area is coming to Wilkes-Barre.

Philadelphia, PA: Cupcake Truck Expands to Storefront in Midtown Village

The "Love Strawberries and Champagne" cupcake from Sweet Box Shop in Philadelphia's Midtown Village.

It was a matter of growing out of the space. I was using my father’s kitchen at night. And I was doing pretty much everything myself. It was like: Order it. Measure it. Bake it. Sell it. No sleep

Philadelphia, PA: Operators Talk About Food-Truck Business

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Hawaiian-style tacos - Kalua pork, pork belly, and chicken katsu - from the Poi Dog Philly cart.

Starting Say Cheese was initially a joke. We thought it would be hilarious to open a food truck selling only grilled cheese. The more we delved into the nuts and bolts of the business, we realized there was really something there. Since then, we’ve been flexing our creative muscles.

Philadelphia, PA: Rocco Whalen’s Food Truck at Alla Spina Industry Night

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Rocco Whalen drove to Philadelphia from Cleveland in ShortRib1, the Fahrenheit food truck, to take part in May Industry Night at Alla Spina. The don’t-miss slate of offerings includes kimchi dogs, Thai chicken meatballs and a pork belly BLT.

Philadelphia, PA: Biz Bites and PHL 17 Meet Mac-and-Cheese Maven

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Mac Mart stands out among vendors on the Drexel campus with its pink food truck and its versatility with an American staple, mac-and-cheese.

I was nuts about Return of the Mac, a classic grilled cheese with buttery slices of thick white bread, and a twist: In addition to the cheese, the sandwich was also stuffed with mac and cheese. It’s destined to be a campus classic.

Philadelphia, PA: Head To Fishtown’s Penn Treaty Park With A Kite And An Empty Stomach For The Pie In The Sky And Food Truck Festival, This Saturday, May 4

Fishtown's Penn Treaty Park hosts a day of kite flying, kite making and food trucks at their Pie in the Sky Kite and Food Truck Festival this Saturday, May 4. (Photo by M. Kennedy for GPTMC)

This Saturday, May 4, embrace the spring sunshine at Penn Treaty Park during the Pie In The Sky And Food Truck Festival from noon to 5 p.m

Scranton City, PA: Scranton City Council Introduces New Rules on Food Trucks

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Changes include defining food trucks and carts and increasing their distance from restaurants to 250 feet, up from a required 100 feet now. The proposal would also raise an annual license fee from around $150 to $500 and prohibit them from operating overnight between 30 minutes before sunset and 8 a.m.