Running a Food Truck for Dummies

by Richard Myrick

The easy way to drive your food truck business to success A new generation of street food lovers are lining up at food trucks and food carts. Though the idea is a long-standing part of American and world culture, the street food industry has never enjoyed so much popularity or publicity. With lower start-up costs than traditional "store front" restaurants, food trucks offer a unique opportunity to entrepreneurs in a business climate where credit is tight and capital is scarce. In Running a Food Truck For Dummies, you'll get all the delicious details needed to start your own food truck business quickly, affordably, and successfully. Whether you're one for the nearly 3 million owners and operators of existing food truck businesses or a chef, foodie, or gourmand interested in starting your own mobile restaurant endeavor, Running a Food Truck For Dummies helps you find your food niche, follow important rules of conducting business on the road, outfit your moving kitchen, meet safety and sanitation requirements, and much more. From choosing and outfitting a business vehicle to franchising and everything in between, Running a Food Truck For Dummies shows foodies everything they need to know to get their business moving toward success!

Genres: Business

340 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 2012

Reviews

[Georgios Glinos · Rating 4 out of 5]

Insightful and concise

Starting at the very beginning, the book takes you through the adventures of owning and running a food truck.
As an owner of one in Greece for the past five years, it was still useful, although most references were for the US market

[Leah · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book for getting yourself on the right track and a great resource as you go through the process of startup.

[Jeannie · Rating 5 out of 5]

My daughter finished school and we had to find something to keep her and me busy for the next 30 years. She has Down syndrome and working out in the general public is really not an option. We decided to open an ice cream truck business. I chose this book to learn everything I could about the start upside of things. This book helped me decide what product to sell, how to choose the right vehicle, truck set up, locations...everything. I kept this with me and took notes. I followed the guidance and had our new business up and running within a short couple of months. If you are seriously considering starting a food truck business of ANY type, I highly recommend reading this book! 5 stars all the way.

[Rob · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is the 3rd Food Truck start-up business book I have read and easily the least valuable. Lots of repetitive topics and advice (author increases page length by repeating concepts again and again) and the content is a bit dated (~10 years old). It also seemed as if content from running a brick & mortar type restaurant was repurposed for this book with edits... at least several chapters read that way. Overall, I would avoid this Dummies book if you are really interested in the Food Truck business. Just too blah and minimally helpful.

[Elizabeth Hernandez · Rating 3 out of 5]

Lots of good resources and websites provided.

[Erin · Rating 2 out of 5]

Do yourself a favor and read The Food Truck Handbook instead.