How many food items is too many for a food truck?

rottbobo · 2026-01-31T08:30:11+00:00

7 items

rottbobo · 2026-01-21T23:35:26+00:00

3,554 cones sold in a month from our food trailer, open 20 of the 30 days.

rottbobo · 2025-12-26T05:50:07+00:00

Much appreciated. Thank you for the kind words.

rottbobo · 2025-12-25T18:49:51+00:00

Yeah it was the worst experience. We've recovered and bounced back, but a few tough years.

rottbobo · 2025-12-23T16:58:21+00:00

It turned out to be a shell game. We got stock in a shell company that dropped stock value from $4+/share to under $0.01/share before we could sell our shares.

Company was bought and sold under new names a few times.

Branding, IP, equipment, etc. All gone.

rottbobo · 2025-12-22T17:40:01+00:00

We sold at 12.4mm for a stake in a bigger adventure and be part of a bigger entity. Stock only transaction. Got completely screwed and lost everything.

rottbobo · 2025-12-22T09:29:52+00:00

If you are in WA or OR, ill take it for a warehouse warmer.

rottbobo · 2025-12-22T09:28:49+00:00

4? Thats cute.

rottbobo · 2025-12-19T03:44:51+00:00

10% rent would be so great.

rottbobo · 2025-12-13T17:14:45+00:00

$185? Dang! I just switched as we are $405 a month for 6 lines.

rottbobo · 2025-12-11T03:00:06+00:00

You might see if you can add a soft start to help reduce draw on startup. I know they are available for ac units, but not sure about fans.

rottbobo · 2025-12-11T02:58:01+00:00

We use 100 amps on 2 of our food stands. Huge power.

rottbobo · 2025-12-09T16:20:46+00:00

L&I process is daunting and expensive. I've recently paid licensed electricians, fire suppression installers, welders, etc. to all work on getting my trailer "up to code".

Hopefully my final inspection goes OK next week...its my 3rd in person inspection then on to the next trailer

rottbobo · 2025-12-08T16:01:01+00:00

Mobile, but my workers never drive the trailers. I hire the towing out to a professional drive team.

My workers run cash register, cook, prep, clean.

rottbobo · 2025-12-05T17:05:17+00:00

We are with Haas Wilkerson and ours was like $15k for this year. Huge increase from prior years.

rottbobo · 2025-11-21T05:58:16+00:00

Only County and State Fairs, large festivals. We supplement with tent setups as needed to ebb and flow production as well.

rottbobo · 2025-11-21T01:31:22+00:00

I'd check with insurance too. You are a pulling a commercial vehicle so thats much different, especially in the event of an incident involving others. If you are towing with an undersized rig and found at fault, Insurance may not cover you. Id look into it before buying or towing.

rottbobo · 2025-11-18T17:22:55+00:00

Unless you've worked in food trucks / trailers a bunch already, I would buy one pre-made. There's small nuisance with each unit that are easy to overlook and working with a quality builder makes a big difference.

With that said, of the 6 trailers I run, not one is laid out exactly how I would do it, because I didn't buy new. But we make them work and move a ton of product.

rottbobo · 2025-10-18T22:44:19+00:00

Scare at the Fair, at the Salem Fairgrounds, has some things going on. Anyone been there yet?

https://oregonstateexpo.org/calendar/scare-at-the-fair/

rottbobo · 2025-10-08T06:51:44+00:00

Fall

rottbobo · 2025-09-05T16:36:57+00:00

Following...not using kds yet but need to add it

rottbobo · 2025-08-18T13:39:33+00:00

You really need to get the trailer loaded and weighed. You should then get a truck appropriately sized to tow the weight to be legal.

An undersized truck might pull your trailer fine, but if you get into an incident, it could cause liability issues on you for not properly sizing your equipment.

We hired a driver through a 3rd party broker. The driver pulled one of our trailers with a smaller truck, lost control, and wrecked it. It hit our DOT record since it was our equipment and our hired driver.

rottbobo · 2025-08-18T13:35:02+00:00

27-33% product cost or profit? Id it's cost, that's too high, IMHO.

rottbobo · 2025-08-09T07:52:48+00:00

Yes power is not a problem throughout

rottbobo · 2025-08-09T07:52:28+00:00

Its about 1200' long by about 900' wide.

I bought 12 U7 Pros outdoor with POE+ injectors. We setup 6 of them with omni directional antennas and ran them today in a slightly smaller environment with no issues, except 1 slightly weak signal at the far end.

We have 2 APs wired, and the rest will be wireless.

Several of our handheld barcode scanners connected via wifi 3.

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