Food Cart Vs. Food Truck: Can You Have the Best of Both Worlds?
As a start-up restaurant owner, you may already know that starting with a mobile operation is better than a brick and mortar location for several reasons. Howe ver, with all the mobile options on the market today, what mobile vending solution is right for you? Let’s take a look: Food Truck The first most common option is a food truck. Food trucks offer all of the classic benefits you’d expect – a full kitchen set up, an expansive menu, and the possibility to travel and take your restaurant several hundred miles beyond home base, if you feel like. Plus, with food trucks being a big trend at the moment, there is a whole subculture of diners who attend special food festivals that allow food trucks to vend. This may make you think food trucks are the best way to garner a following, and that statement is probably true. However, the upfront costs of a food truck run high – you can find a used one for around $40,000-50,000 on Craigslist, but to purchase a brand new and fully customized truc