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Reasons Why Food Truck Businesses Falter
• Mayo 31, 2017
Categorías: Food Trucks
Like any good business idea that begins to gain momentum, operating a food truck or Concession Stand brings both rewards and challenges, particularly as those kinds of businesses begin to catch on in certain areas and adapt to customer demand.
It may not yet be the case that “everybody and his brother” is operating a food truck, but the popularity of the versatile eateries is certainly on the rise. Which also means that some food trucks are experiencing difficulties, even failures. Here are a few reasons why, according to an article in Mobile Cuisine:
What marketing plan?: It’s tempting to believe that operating a self-contained restaurant on wheels requires less marketing know-how than a brick-and-mortar one. However, a marketing plan is critical to the success of any business venture. Even a bare-bones one that covers just how you plan to communicate with customers over social media is better than no marketing plan at all.
Customer service is also taken for granted: Again, along the same lines as above, it’s easy to assume that you and your employees will take proper care of your customers. And you likely will do your best to address any problems. But you need to go further than that, making provision for how you will keep your customers informed about menu and location changes, as well as ...

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Crazy Concession Stand Classics
• Mayo 31, 2017
Categorías: Food Trucks
With baseball season getting underway for 2015, it’s worth asking what some of the new concession items will be, as food purveyors seek to balance traditional delights with health-conscious and trendy offerings.  Last year, People&nb...

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To-Do List for Spring Food Truck Openings
• Mayo 31, 2017
Categorías: Food Trucks
With spring finally in the air in many locations around the United States, it won’t be long before food truck businesses that were dormant for the winter will get things started back up again. Now’s as good a time as any to look over some...

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Can Your Food Truck Pass OSHA Inspections?
• Mayo 31, 2017
Categorías: Food Trucks
In addition to needing to meet safety and health requirements of local regulatory organizations, food trucks (and other mobile businesses, such as Concession Trailers) need to be able to satisfy the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational ...

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Concessions Go to the Movies
• Mayo 31, 2017
Categorías: Food Trucks
There’s a reason why you’ve likely started seeing more and more concession-style food items available at the movie theater: Depending on where you live, the expanded menus are another way for the theaters to make more money, especially wh...

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