Food truck entrepreneur credits community support in brick-and-mortar quest

by Judy Mottl — Editor, RetailCustomerExperience.com & DigitalSignageToday.com

Chef Sam Burgess, owner of the Pineappetit food truck and a brick-and-mortar restaurant that just launched several week ago, hasn't let the pandemic get in the…

Frios signs 5 franchise deals

May 5, 2021

Mobile franchise system, Frios Gourmet Pops, has signed five development deals to grow the brand in Georgia, South Carolina and Texas, as well as adding the…

Lessons learned from food truck competition come in handy

April 30, 2021

Chef Marie Yniguez is putting good use to lessons learned during her time as a competitor on "The Great American Food Truck Race," a Food Network program.

Meeting customer demand proves successful for growing Mediterranean food empire

by Judy Mottl — Editor, RetailCustomerExperience.com & DigitalSignageToday.com

Mohammad Altawaha operates 15 food trucks (and five restaurant locations) under his Abu Omar Halal brand across Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Florida. His…

Arkansas restaurant group expands food truck fleet

March 26, 2021

Minute Man Restaurants, in Little Rock, Arkansas is expanding the scope and reach of its mobile restaurant fleet with a food truck called the Space Shuttle…

University launches a food truck

March 1, 2021

Saint Leo University is operating a food truck called The Hungry Lion.

Startup taps shipping cotainer approach for food truck builds

February 23, 2021

Walkingboxes, a startup company, is creating sustainable food trailers using a shipping container development appraoch and the Berlin business is getting big…

Atlanta Pizza Truck: A whole new kind of 'pizza mobile platform'

by S.A. Whitehead — Food Editor, Net World Media Group

In Italy, where pizza — and especially pizza Napoletano — is virtually a religion, three-wheeled Piaggio Ape trucks are everywhere. That's one main reason an…

Bringing a little taste of Italy to Atlanta

by Judy Mottl — Editor, RetailCustomerExperience.com & DigitalSignageToday.com

Alessio Lacco and Sofía Arango launched the Atlanta Pizza Truck at the start of the pandemic last March in a quest to bring a little bit of Italy to their…

It's all about wings, wings and wings

Jesse McDonald, Cole Forrest and Jonah McDonald were cooking up wings long before the trio launched New Wing Order in 2018 and they are all about celebrating…

School district food truck aims to feed inner city families

October 26, 2020

A "farm-to-school-to-you" food truck, developed by Cornell Cooperative Extension and the Buffalo Public School district, aims to feed the needy in West Buffalo…

College culinary program adds a food truck to the curriculum

October 5, 2020

The Blue Ridge Community and Technical College, in Martinsburg, West Virginia, now boasts its own food truck called the Bruin Express.

Happy Ice is delivering way more than a unique tasty treat

by Judy Mottl — Editor, RetailCustomerExperience.com & DigitalSignageToday.com

Lemeir Mitchell learned early on there is no good reason to wait on making a dream come true. That dream, initially, was to become a famous tattoo artist and…

North Carolina center launches a food truck

September 3, 2020

The Haywood Pathways Center, a charitable shelter for the homeless, is launching a food truck to help support its holistic care and rehab mission.

Mobile cart maker debuts electric vehicles via Ayro partnership

August 27, 2020

Gallery, an innovative developer of mobile food carts and carts for retailers, is partnering with Ayro and Club Car on a line of electric vehicles.

Whataburger takes its fare on the road with first food truck

August 7, 2020

Texas fast casual brand Whataburger is celebrating its seventh decade in business by launching its first-ever food truck.

Ohio town home to 'food truck on steroids'

August 6, 2020

There are food trucks and then there are food trucks that defy the traditional definition.

New virtual summit focuses on innovation, customer experience in self-service, kiosk, vending industries

Networld Media websites, Vending Times and Kiosk Marketplace, are launching a virtual summit that promises to bring attendees the very best in self-service…

Collaborative engineering leads to mobile hospitality vehicle innovation

July 15, 2020

A joint engineering development involving Ayro, Inc. and Gallery Carts has produced an all-electric configurable mobile hospitality vehicle for "on-the-go…

Spicy hot chicken pop-up goes mobile in Houston

July 9, 2020

Rosalyn's Hot Chicken, a well-known Houston, Texas pop-up food option, is getting a new home.