/ck/ - Food & Cooking

steak on a stick

>>5450255
Shameless self bump with a blank truck. In case any of you photoshop fags want to do up your design too.

burgers, beer, and served by titties.

>>5450255
Keep the $50 grand and call them a sucker.

>>5450255
>>5450255
mixiotes y tlacoyos

Baked potato truck. Though things are so fucking enticing when out in town.

>go to two
>have a tea and cake from a local shop so reasonably satiated
>looking around the shops
>then the smell hits me
>the smell of jacket potatoes
>oh god I want one

Truck #1 :
Truck based on good foods cranked out quickly. Taste will be there but focus of this truck will be cranking em out and making lots of product per hour. Quality ingredients, familiar favorites, charge up the ass.
>sub sandwiches

Truck #2:
Give the fat fucks of my city what they want. Serve it up different and creative ways. Add this ingredient to things that you would never think about adding it to.
>bacon

Truck #3:
Truck revolving around 1 staple dish everyone likes. I don't care who you are. Have different meats available, different bread options, plethora of toppings. Oh yes, charge up the ass.
>burgers

Truck #4
Tacos. Because why not.

>>5450255
That's a hard decision.
I can/have thought of lots of options for a food truck. Whatever it is, though, has to be amazing enough that people will seek it out. That doesn't mean it has to be super fancy or difficult, just has to be the best of it's kind and addictive.

>>5450308
Oh man you should hear my business plan about making a product that everyone wants, but doing it cheaply and selling it a high profit margin.

What do you mean what is the product? We'll let the egg heads in R&D make the thing.

>>5450291
so basically a mobile Taters n Tits except half as badass?

dont forget the fixins

>>5450340
you mean make your own bacon/ i've heard of people doing it. you need the right equipment (particularly a smoker).. but ya can be done and done cheaply

kebabs/middle eastern food. there's a real lack of good, fast, cheap kebabs here, and gyros just aren't the same

Donairs
that shit is the best around here

>>5450255
I think I would specialize in salad sandwiches. chicken salad, tuna salad, egg salad, pasta salad sides etc. coleslaw. but have the focus on the vegetables and the bread. I asked myself this exact question the other day and thats what I came up with.
what makes the sandwich to me is the type of bread and the vegetables. I like a big fucking beefsteak tomato slice on my BLTs more then any type of bacon. so fresh veggies would be the star, and different types of breads.

the salad mixes would have to have unique ingredients to stand out, but ultimately its because you can keep large batches of the stuff for a few days at a time. so they would have to hold their own, but not be the main attraction. so its...economical..i guess in that regard.

also unique condiments. bleu cheese mayo or some shit. something to draw them in

>>5450255
Cold pizza

>>5450392
oh, and soups. obviously. something you can make large batches of and keep for a day or two. egg salad and tomato soup I would enjoy

>>5450346

>>5450255
A truck that sells a bunch of different types of soup. I find the lack of soup trucks disturbing.

>>5450407
with mini bread bowls...

that would be awesome

I'd sell pot and tacos.

>>5450422
what about burweedos?

>>5450432
forgot pic

Pick one simple thing, and do it really really fucking well. Make it fast to order and fast to serve.

Default menu items :
Beef Burger - sharp cheddar, lettuce, tomato, onion
Pork Burger - muenster, mustard, tomato apple slaw,
Bean Burger - Feta, chipotle mayo,appleslaw

French Fries
Coleslaw
Appleslaw

Daily specials:variations on basic menu items. maybe normal burgers with seasonal toppings, softshell crab burger, ect.

keep things simple.

Fresh blended protein smoothies and park outside of gyms during peak hours

>>5450436

I'd probably sell soups. Little prep with orders, all the cooking is done before so when on location all you do is serve, maybe do some grilled cheese or toast some bread meaning the service is quick. Can serve a lot of customers quickly. Soup is pretty cheap to make but markup can be quite significant. Lots of variety so people don't get bored, can serve a couple healthy soups for those fags who care about calories, soups are good lunch food so it would be a good all day business.

Shit, all I need is $60,000 to buy a food truck...

>>5450340
lul'd

Rotisserie for mine. Birds and porchetta.
Potatoes roasting in the drippings.

>>5450255
Breakfast: Cereal and bagels
Lunch: Grilled Cheese
Club and late night events: Taco Bell

>>5450399
>>5450407
pretty much this, whatever is easiest to produce and keep, and what is the quickest and easiest thing for people to consume

Me? I'd serve crab legs.

Seriously. Shrimp, prawns, crab legs, that sort of thing. Comes in various types. I live on the west coast so I'd imagine it would have some appeal, though I imagine some people would be sketched out by the idea of eating seafood from a truck

>>5450458
You'd have to make a good display out of it. Show them the raw product on ice in glass display cases visible in the background.

>>5450442
like you blend up a softshell crab into a patty? I don't think anyone who wants to trust what they eat would buy a softshell crab from a food truck. but otherwise I dig what you're onto

>>5450458
Texas here, come Lenten season seafood food trucks are all the rage, and mind you, I live in a town that doesn't usually have food trucks.

>>5450446
are you>>5450400
im>>5450346 & >>5450436

if so: Sup? Chubbs, foodfromtvreviews.com

>>5450463
>like you blend up a softshell crab into a patty?
You are retarded.

Since I love fishing and being /out/, I would get a truck that is a bait/tackle truck. It would have a live well, for live minnows, small grill for hot dogs, a coffee pot, and a few other fishing related supplies. I would drive around from fishing spot to fishing spot, selling bait and coffee and small tackle wherever I park, and while on these routes, collect minnows from local stream traps, and my coffee grounds would go to my worm farms at home base. The trucks name would be The Master Bater,

Two words:

Lard truck.
LARD TRUCK.

>>5450462
Yeah that would be an issue, but I think a skewer of prawns would sell like a hot damn. If people are willing to buy sushi from a mall kiosk then I don't see the difference

>>5450458
Would you show full feature films as you served them? Crab legs are really best enjoyed in the theater but you could probably pull something off with a small projector and short films since its a food truck.

>>5450470
you called it a burger

I'd put together a mobile whore house. Menu would include all the services, combos like ass + mouth would go for a special price.

Have a motto of "the only truck that eats you"

>>5450463

no softshell crab deep-fried whole and then place on a bun with toppings like it was a patty. Softshell in particular you keep live till just before cooking, so get however many you think you'll need for that day and cook to order. if you really wanted to you cook keep em on display and have customers pick their own.

>>5450496
I was toying with a similar idea. Mine would be called "the fuck truck" with 7 mufflers at cock-level. You would pay and then lift up a muffler to reveal a small window with an ass or mouth waiting your meat, depending on what you bought.

>>5450501
keeping them alive in the truck would be the only problem, they have such a limited shelflife..when not frozen, and that can be a big problem I've sold softshells for years and if they arent up to snuff people wont buy them

>>5450486

I'm >>5450442 and>>5450501

I use burger somewhat loosely. like i said keep it simple and focus on doing one type of food really well. Once you open up the whole sandwich category it becomes a lot more expansive, but a crab sandwich or grilled cheese is pretty straightforward and won't muck up expediting or cooking

>>5450513
didnt mean to derail
back to food truckery
I contend that mobile seafood would have very little success unless it were very localized, where people are willing to spend frivilously, say in a resort area like Outer Banks NC or some coastal money dump

>>5450255
at first i was like "fuck this thread"
but then i went on youtube... and ended up watching this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jmZjj2y4w0

Since im not much of a hipster i never really checked out what food trucks are doing.

I only have one passion. Real good steak. Since sit down restaraunts have stolen all the steak eaters, im going to take them back.

If someone gave me $50,000 i would start a "Anon's Beef Company" truck (title in progress) that would serve dry aged steak, fajitas, filet mignon... and although you don't get waiter service with it, it would be bomb as fuck.

first challenge is pricing...
for a 8 oz dry aged filet mignon, id have to charge about 20 bucks. Thats pretty expensive for a food truck, but oh well. Fajitas will be 7 bucks a pop. And non-aged steak for 10.

>>5450265
yeah, why not.

>>5450544
> I contend that mobile seafood would have very little success unless it were very localized
i disagree... i would buy the shit out of a soft shell crab or lobster truck.

you should go to Taco Bell Central - the Office Projects (office buildings where people only have fast food around them). Same food every day... you want subway or del taco? fucking... subway i guess. fuck.

Oh, how about soft shell crab? hhhhwWHHHAAT? All my money... take it all!

>>5450590
yeah but the logistics involved in that sort of thing..I mean I know I can sell them deep fried frozen from asia(phillips), no problem. it should be different, not something I would sell willy nilly to joe shmoe take my money please.

that would be like if long john silvers sold them, it would taste like plastic and give you the doodoo butters.

don't bastardize the experience ya know thats just my take on it

>>5450580
>tfw that guy from Slap Yo Mama food truck

SSSSSSHHHHHHHIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEETTT

Gotta streamline. I'd come up with eight things that you can execute well, and go from there. Flatiron steak on grilled endive with avocado vin. Chicken with seasonal veggies on rice (coconut vin). Porkchop with cherry reduction over collards with dijon and fennel. Then mix and match those ingredients to round off your menu.

I would serve Irish food, beer and really good whiskey

I'd make it look classy as fuck too and only serve white people

>>5450642
>>5450642
>>5450642
hahhahaha.. i said the same damn thing! im like... looking at them deep fry straight dough.. like all this deep frying and im thinking... man that must make you FA...........

...aaa...........
>Mfw >>5448330

>>5450654
>only serve white people

Hahaha

>>5450654
Yo dawg, can i get me one of dem Irish burgers?

>>5450662
Here, just take all the money and get out of here. I don't want any trouble

I'd sell faggots from an ice cream truck

>>5450255
put cheese on a stick
put spices on cheese
grill
offer different kinds of cheese
maybe even a toast with it

>>5450696
>no concealed carrying all the time especially when handling money

>>5450744
>not being part of the alcoholic sub race

>>5450255
"Handsome Nazi's Grilled Kebab", my shitcosplayer gf will make a fine uniform, and i will see to it that all kebab is purified by flame until lil-crunchy.
Gonna stop on weekends at local shooting range.>>5450255
captcha: discovered kekline

>>5450968
I want 50

>>5450255
Venezuelan style arepas, with many different options for fillings. The perfect street food.

>>5450968
but kebab isnt jewish

>>5451071
How does it stop me?

Dire Grub

A /tg/ inspired food truck that only serves sandwiches and a "hard tack" snack (kind of like chips, but with a hard tack recipe).

Each sandwich would be based on traditional D&D classes, such as the Fighter, the Druid, the Cleric, and the Barbarian.

>>5451118
i always thought /tg/ was like Sorry, Monopoly, Cranium type board games for some reason

>>5451122
It is that and more. Much more.

>>5451118
i'd eat the shit out of that, props on the name, too! seems like you've been thinking this through for a bit. you could even get a little fusion in if you wanted to go up to 3.0/3.5 and include monk pita wraps or roguish munchie boxes!

>>5450255
Indian food

If I couldn't serve food, then I'd deliver bread

wing bucket

I'd sell pitas. The dough can be rolled out and frozen in large quantities, then thawed before an outing and cooked to order. Fillings would be falafel, chicken, and pork - all with veggies. Sauces would include house made mayo, bbq, and tzaziki. Beverages would be bottled, I suppose, but I would absolutely serve sweet tea. Candy apples for dessert. The name of my truck would be Adventure Dine.

>>5451151
I have been thinking about it for a while, and with the bit of money I've been saving from my current job I might start experimenting with recipes and stuff for all of the food.

To do this properly, I'll need to concentrate on two different kinds of meat, chicken and thin-cut steak, like philly-style. And regularly, I would keep the Fighter, the Druid, and the Barbarian as regular menu items with two "sandwiches of the week."

And to tell the truth, I'm not a super good cook, so I'd come up with the recipes and then hire someone to do all the cooking for me.

>>5450255
In Europe, a frozen yoghurt truck.
Add a bunch of fruity flavors and sell that shit like icecream.

Literally prints money.

>>5451172
you can't make pita bread without a crazy hot oven. like 1000 F hot. you can't put that on a truck. also you shouldn't sell tzatziki if you can't spell it

vietnamese food. My city doesnt have any vietnamese places, so it would be a novelty.
Two heated vats for pho broth. One beef, one chicken. Dont even need to heat/cook toppings, can just pour the broth on the meats, then add the rest. Serve in styrofoam bowls that can be fitted with plastic lids. Put a bottle of sriracha, and hoisin in the window for customers.
Spring rolls are easy, just fill and steam to order. Could offer a variety of fillings.
Bahn mi would be the most time consuming, due to the need to cook fillings.
Could even potentially do rice bowls if there was room for a rice steamer.

make in n out style/flavor burgers and frys
>simple and sweet

I'm from Texas so I'd make some kickass tex-mex.

>>5450662

SHOO, SHOO YOU DIRTY NEGRO

An empanadas truck no contest.

A spaghetti truck. Different kinds of long pasta with different kinds of sauces. All made by me and an elite team of people I kind of trust with my sauces.

>>5451561
>>5451561
Nice spaghetti with sachets of ketchup.
I'll buy that for a dollar!

Burritos. But with stupid insides. Options like fish, chips, tartar. Teriyaki Chicken, rice, salad mix, teriyaki shop dressing. Spaghetti and Meatballs. The concept is to wrap everything in a warm tortilla to make food you usually need a table to eat hand-held- perfect for the walk up style of a food truck. A lot of fillings could be pre-cooked in a kitchen and heated for assembly on site.

Bourbon and jerky.

>>5450255
Taco truck. I live around the Rutgers campus and they have grease trucks everywhere. Fat Sandwiches galore. But no tacos. They will bow to "Paco's Tacos."

I won't even offer much variety since their drunk asses don't care. hard or soft shell. black bean, refried bean, cheese, chicken, beef, lettuce, tomato, sour cream, salsa.
I'd serve their orders in a disposable boat with tortilla chips and a cup of salsa. I'd make sure the tortilla chips were extremely good, much like why people go to certain burger joints "for the fries."
I'd also have a huge variety of hot sauces available.

If it was successful I'd consider doing burritos and other stuff during the day.

Booze and bread truck
>beer and cheesy bread
>margaritas and cheese quesadillas
>Bailey's spiked coffee with doughnut
>weekly specialties based off weather and holidays

Sushi

Crepes.

Dessert or Dinner. I work in a dessert crepe shop and it's not doing bad just some terrible managing.Roughly making about 7200 a week (Not profit but the profit margin is quite ridiculous).

>>5451735
Could work because it's trendy as shit and don't see it dying out for ages, have to be super careful though.

>>5450481
>crab legs best enjoyed in a theater?!
What, what is happening???

No question, the superior on-the-go fast food.
Falafels.
Nigga we can make falafel rolls, "vegan" "falafel" roll, tuna salad falafel roll, pork salad falafel roll, toothpicked falafel balls.
with options for spicy falafels, and fuck-your-asshole-nigga spicy falafels.

I fucking love falafel

>investing in a trend that will likely see you out of business in less than a year

>>5452198
mobile food. you go where the hungry people are. only way youw ould go out of business would be if people stopped eating.

>>5450255
Cauliflower truck.
Only sell lightly steamed Cauliflower

>>5450444
Damn. That could make some money.

A Japanese Oden truck. Its easy to make and all you need is three soup bases (mild, rich and spicy), homemade or at least decent quality fish cakes and vegetables.

Problem is the only good food trucks stamding are sandwich carts

>>5451221
Wrong. They can be cooked on a flattop. But thanks for correcting my spelling error - now my food truck concept is complete.

>>5450642
>>5450580
Literally shouted 'SHIT' like Dave Chappelle during the super size me sketch when I saw the guy from Slap Yo mama

>>5450255
Crepe cones like the ones they have in Japan. They don't sell them anywhere where I live, but I know how to make them, and all of my friends are obsessed with them and ask for them whenever they come over!

They're super yummy, they can be sweet or savory with any sort of topping, and they're a handheld treat!

>>5452907

We had that a couple of years ago when Food Truck craze started. Too bad they were in the middle of stiff competition.

And a Downtown Crepe store will have better quality crepes for less markup vs ingredients. The Food Cart Crepe's ingredients are basic.

>>5450968
le hilarious post

>>5450340
I hope you have a sense of urgency, and that you will engage in continuous improvement so that you deliver high-quality product reliably.

Japanese Taco Truck. I'll call it Japs Making Tacos. Menu to feature:
Toro tacos with jap veg and ponzu style sauce
Short rib tacos with jap veg and a miso sauce
Ahi tuna tacos with jap veg and teriyaki sauce
Kobe beef tacos with msg and pepper, no sauce

all of the staff will wear kimonos

>>5455196
This is how my staff will dress. They will be Mexican cooks. I will force them to speak in Jap accents.

>>5450255
Stroopwagon, serving freshly made stroopwafel with a variety of toppings, variations, sizes, etc. Plus hot beverages to keep them warm.

Original idea, do not steal.

>>5455297
That fucker has his own brand of dehydrated couscous, and they're terrible.

It would be called "This Grill is On Fire", and it would be exclusively free-range, organic, spicy barbecue whilst terrible pop music plays inside

To appeal to the hipster crowd, of course

Then with my profits from that I'd open a food truck that serves pancakes stuffed with things. Like, pancakes with sausages inside, pancakes filled with creamed corn, pancakes filled with raspberry jelly, all sortsa stuffed pancakes.

A Mex-Italian fusion truck called Spicwops. Tacos with bolognaise filling, pizza with taco meat, etc.

>>5455379
Throw in some Irish. Just serve some of your things on top of a potato.
>McSpicwops

>>5450255
2 Small postal trucks.

Make your own smoothies.

Tons of choices.

All kinds of fruits.

All kinds of milk.

5 bucks a pop to start.

Done.

Soups in the winter/fall
Fried seafood in the spring/summer

>>5450255
50k isn't enough for a food truck.

>>5455607
It is if you know the right friends.
I don't know about where you guys are, but here, that shit's all connected with organized crime.

>>5455621
I don't have any friends.

>>5455607
You can by a used truck for half that and use the rest to get licensed, supplies, etc.

>>5455627
Good luck when some MS 13 fucker extorts your living dick off.

>>5455548

Only issue I see is placement - you're a snack bar, basically, not a serious lunch joint. I could see it working in trendy, high-energy, young-professional areas. Maybe some part(s) of California or NY or wherever the food scene is pretty variable.

>>5450255
>What Food Truck would you open?
That's a recipe for a short term business failure.
I would open a "mobile kitchen". Swap out equipment in storage and load up with appropriate foods for the venue.
Serving coffee and eggs items in the morning. Burgers, hotdogs, tacos or chinese in the afternoon. Then another variety of foods if open in the evening. Bring the deep fryer when schedule for a state fair and serve funnel cakes and corndogs.
I know this works, I was commissioned to renovate and convert a stepvan last year for this. They seem to be doing fine with it now.

>>5450468
Hops?
That's a fuckload of nugs otherwise.

Indian food called "Curry in a hurry" or "Hurried curry".
A pasta van. Called fasta pasta.
A van that sells German food and beer called Fud.
A van that sells Cajun and Southern cooking such as fried chicken, chili, etc.
One that sells roasts and rotisserie such as chicken, beef, lamb and pork along with roast potatoes, pumpkin, carrots, sweet potato, and onions. All with any gravy you want and sides like green beans, peas, corn, broccoli.

Noodles.
Pasta, udon, whatever. Sauce, soup, and dressing for the traditionalists.

I'd call it the Reformed Pastafarian Church.

Go-sa

A dosa truck, in which you pick your filling out of potato masala, chana masala, dry vegetable curry and such. You get to pick your chutneys to go with it, and we'd sell hot and iced tea. We'd serve methu vada and masala vada, and bowls of sambhar.

I would open mine up at any carnival that wants me. The gimmick would be insect based food, my saying being "eat like a true geek!"

>>5455633
I'm am so happy I don't live in LA

>>5450468
You really chubbs? Didn't know you browsed 4chan. But i guess ck would be the place stoners would flock to.

i'd take the 50k and travel around the world

fuck the food truck

>>5455851

i eat indian food twice a week and i don't know what half of those things are you just said. now i feel dumb.

i used to want to open a korean bbq truck and we would serve bulgogi tacos/bulgogi burgers/kimchi fries etc but 3 of them appeared in my city within the last year.

>>5455858
>eat like a true geek

Don't you mean gook? haha

>>5455340
Sell Luftwaffels instead.

>>5456421
>investing zero dollars

Want to know how I know you're poor and always will be

>>5457118
But he just got handed 50k

KHLAV KALASH

>>5451872
We have this in scottsdale

people bring it to you while you watch a movie

>>5455621
I live in arizona and there's a hotdog truck called "Nogales Hot Dogs" that only sells in front of a pawn shop between 9pm-3am

brisket, sausages, pulled pork

A beans on toast van with all sorts of baked beans (cooked that day, heinz, tesco value for the shitters), a variety of breads for the toast, and toppings and extras (eg. fried onions, cayenne pepper, cheese). cheap, filling, easy to make, unique.

Been toying with the idea of a beans on toast based restaurant called 'The Beanshack' with all sorts of customization options, a self-service bean station, and little adventure stories for kids birthday parties including daily shows about Bean-Man and Toast Boy who fight the evil Beanbeard the pirate - who runs around the restaurant dipping his beard in people's beans. Eventually the kids would find Beanbeard's treasure - a chest filled with beans which they scoop up with their slices of toast and devour.

>>5457122
>Not using free money to make even more money

Gluten free baked goods truck.

Over price everything.

Make my money back easily by driving it through like new York or Philly, where hipster moms buy their kids gluten free food because its "healthier" for them.

>>5457118
>Want to know how I know you're poor and always will be
>>5457197
A food truck is a good investment? lol

>>5457316
I never said a food truck was, I said it was retarded to blow all of the money on a trip around the world.

>>5457305
There are a few cupcake trucks here in Houston that sell them for about $4 per cupcake. They are insanely overpriced but people eat them up anyway.

Arepa truck, with a ton of filling options. And maybe empanadas.

chicken tender sandwiches

>>5450255
Burritos and tacos probably with some weird stuff like curry burritos and chickpea fries. Or a lil' deli where I'd sell my handmade bagels and freshly roasted coffee. My hook would be that I wouldn't slice or toast the bagel and would refuse to put any schmear on them (because that's how I like them and the don't need any cheese you fucking degenerates). And I would only have everything bagels because they're the bess kind.

Hire a random asian guy for as low as I can to pretend to be japanese and take orders from stupid hipsters and just roll up "sushi" I learned from google. Park it in some retarded hipster trash town like seattle or portland with a fake sign that says each purchase helps support gay rights in japan. I'd make the 50k back in no time.

5 words: Roasted Sweet Potatoes w/ Butta

>>5457618
>putting butter on sweet potatoes.

Fucking disgusting.

>>5457305
or just market it as gluten free and use wheat flour. they won't know the difference

>>5457622
we'll sell unbuttered ones for faggots like you