Casting Call Looking for Food Truck Newbies
LOS ANGELES, CA - Have you ever dreamed of owning and operating your very own Food Truck? Do you have the passion, talent and the drive to draw crowds? Do you have a great idea and the best recipes to make your Food Truck concept a success? If so, this could be your chance to make your dreams come true.
Producers are currently casting in the Los Angeles area. We’re looking for home chefs, line cooks, prep cooks, foodies, bakers, recent culinary grads, etc. Teams should be duos with great chemistry and a shared desire to co-own their very first food truck. FOOD TRUCK NEWBIES ONLY!!!! We only want teams who have not previously owned either a food truck or a restaurant before. If you and a friend dream of owning your own Food Truck and have the talent and ambition to run your own business, this could be your chance. The winning team might just win a one-year lease for their very own truck!!
Opens: 3/28/2013
Closes: 4/15/2013
Interested candidates should download an application here: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/30861643/FoodTruckApplication.doc and send to casting(at)thebrunchstore(dot)com along with a photo of the two of you. The application includes instructions on how to submit a video audition. The link to this audition should also be included in the email. In-person Auditions will be in Los Angeles the first week of May.
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Food truck park coming to Georgetown
Georgetown’s first food truck park will open in April.
Central Texas’ food trailer craze is spreading to Georgetown where the city’s first food park will open next month.
Casey’s Food Court, at 903 N. Church St., will open April 5 and will feature five or six trailers serving tacos, cupcakes, barbecue and other eats, the Community Impact Newspaper reports.
J. Paul Aubin Real Estate owner Joseph Aubin is developing the property, which will have picnic tables and may eventually host live music or other events, according to the newspaper.
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Phoenix’s Park Central Mall set for new food truck festival
Mike Sunnucks
Senior Reporter- Phoenix Business Journal
Two local radio stations are planning a food truck festival for next month that will feature 22 vendors at Park Central Mall in Phoenix.
KNRJ 101.1 FM and KAJM 104.3 FM are hosting the Spring Food Truck Festival on Saturday, April 20.
Admission is free and a portion of the proceeds will go to Chicanos Por La Causa, a nonprofit Hispanic social services agency.
Scottsdale-based Sierra H Broadcasting owns both stations. KNRJ has a classic hip-hop format will KAJM plays urban adult contemporary music.
Jennifer Cisneros, a Sierra H account executive, said the event is geared towards promoting local food trucks and restaurants.
“This is our first food truck event, but if it goes well we will have more,” Cisneros said
There are weekly food truck events throughout the Valley as the culinary trend has caught on nationwide in recent years. Local events take place Mondays and Fridays in downtown Phoenix, plus frequent appearances at farmers markets and special events in suburban cities.
Mike Sunnucks writes about politics, law, airlines, sports business and the economy.
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Chattanooga’s First Food Truck Celebrates 2 Years
After visiting a Signal Mountain friend, I was coming down Taft Highway and saw a sign that read “Poppy’s Smokehouse – Southern Barbecue”. Well, you know I just had to stop in and see for myself just how Southern. It was raining and, as soon as I got inside, the bottom dropped out of the sky. I picked a good time to let the storm pass before heading back. Poppy’s was such a warm, … (click for more)
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Food Trucks unite to protect turf
The food trucks gathered in the Martin Biscuit Building parking lot on Sunday afternoon to support The Greater Birmingham Street Food Coalition. They are planning their next event for this summer and upcoming fall. (Photo courtesy of Amanda Smith)
Amanda Smith @amanda_ruth92 - News Writer |
Foodies and activists joined together this past Sunday, March 10, to support the Greater Birmingham Street Food Coalition at its first annual Street Food Rally.
Among the vendors in attendance were Cantina on Wheels, Dreamcakes Bakery, Fresh Off the Bun, Melt, Shindigs Catering, Slice, Greg’s Hot Dogs, Off the Hook, Repicci’s Italian Ice and Spoonfed Grill.
The trailers, carts and trucks served up their food creations to patrons to raise support for the mobile food industry, which is currently under scrutiny as the Birmingham City Council is preparing to make its first food truck laws.
The proposed ordinance would greatly restrict street food vendors by limiting their hours of operation, prohibiting service within 230 feet of brick-and-mortar restaurants and carving out designated “zones” for them to park their trucks permanently.
Photo courtesy of Amanda Smith
This legislation is designed to keep food trucks from competing with traditional restaurants by making it nearly impossible to run a successful food service, ultimately driving them off the streets.
Guests paid $25 at the gate, allowing them seven tokens to spend on any food and beverages they desired.
An estimated 5,000 people and hundreds of dogs strolled through the parking lot of the Martin Biscuit Building, soaking up some much-needed sunshine and sampling dozens of free offerings.
Crowd favorites included fish tacos from Off the Hook, Vietnamese barbecue sandwiches from Fresh Off the Bun, wood-fired pizza from Slice, and the refreshingly cool treats from Repicci’s.
Dreamcakes sold out of 45 dozen cupcakes in less than three hours. Shindigs Catering, whose slogan is “Local Food Fast,” served crispy catfish over grits, topped with microgreens and a heavenly kimchi beurre blanc sauce. Lines of patient supporters stretched the entire length of the parking lot.
The food truck movement has exploded into cities nationwide, and Birmingham is no exception.
While the Magic City’s mobile food industry is still in its infancy, new vendors are popping up around every street corner.
One of the newest additions to the Street Food Coalition is Melt, co-owned by long-time friends Paget Pizitz and Harriet Reis.
Reis loved the idea of serving up a simple American classic with a twist, but thought it would be even better served on wheels.
She and Pizitz collaborated on the idea of a grilled cheese truck, dubbed themselves the “Two Cheesy Chicks,” and Melt was born.
They recruited Chef Joey Dickerson, the genius behind their savory comfort food, and hit the road.
Pizitz, for one, is not concerned about the proposed legislation. “Any time you introduce something new, there is going to be resistance,” she says.
Luckily, Melt does not have to face adversity alone.
The community of food trucks in Birmingham is working together towards a common goal: to have the same rights as brick-and-mortar restaurants and to continue serving meals to street food fanatics across the city.
Together, the vendors will continue to participate in events like the Street Food Rally to raise community awareness for the potential street food ban.
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EASTVALE: Food truck night set this week – Press
Grab your taste buds and hurry on over to Ramirez Intermediate School for the first Food Truck Night on Friday, March 15, from 5 to 9 p.m.
The food truck night will feature 13 food and dessert trucks including some featured on the Food Network channel.
Food trucks scheduled to be there include Rollin’ Sushi, Dogzilla, WTF Wood Burning Pizza truck, The Grilled Cheese Truck and dessert trucks Funnel Cake Frenzy and Longboards Ice Cream.
The entry fee is $3 per person and children 5 and under get in for free.
Each truck will be selling its own food.
Other activities include a kid zone, two game trucks, live music and raffles.
Ramirez Intermediate School is located at 6905 Harrison Ave., Eastvale.
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Weekend Food Truck Roundup Mar 8 – 10, 2013
In our quest to keep our readers up to date with the latest stories relating to the food truck industry has compiled a list of the stories that hit the wire this weekend from Berkeley, Saskatoon, Washington DC, Buffalo and Vancouver.
March 8
Berkeley Tries to Help Displaced Food Truck Owners – BERKELEY, CA - Berkeley city councilman Kriss Worthington has taken up the cause of three food truck vendors who got bumped from their spots by university construction.
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Saskatoon’s food truck plan looks to park and set up shop – SASKATOON, CANADA - As we roll closer to spring, Saskatoon’s Planning and Operations Committee will consider a proposal next week for a one-year On-Street Mobile Food Truck Pilot Program.
The pilot program, which is slated to launch in May of this year, will see food trucks in operation over a one-year period while the new policies and procedures are evaluated.
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March 9
District proposes rules for food truck vendors – WASHINGTON DC - For the second time in six months, the District has proposed a compromise in the battle between food trucks and brick-and-mortar restaurants over the rules that guide street vendors.
The proposed rules — the fourth attempt in recent years to update regulations that date back three decades — identify about two dozen locations that would serve as Mobile Roadway Vending zones, where food trucks could sell meals between 10:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. without fretting about parking-meter time limits.
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Food truck owners seek lower permit fees - BUFFALO, NY - Ordering a taco or a hamburger from a truck parked at the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus or on Hertel Avenue might seem like a simple transaction.
But before that truck can sell anything, there are rules to follow and fees to be paid.
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March 10
Commercial Drive’s first food truck hooked by net of local politics - VANCOUVER, CANADA - Local entrepreneur Dylan McCulloch didn’t realize he’d be caught in a net of community politics when he opened the first food truck on Commercial Drive.
He and partner Ryan Johnson, with whom he co-owns the Daily Catch fishmonger on the Drive, sunk their profits and savings into the truck.
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Commercial Drive’s first food truck hooked by net of local politics
Local entrepreneur Dylan McCulloch didn’t realize he’d be caught in a net of community politics when he opened the first food truck on Commercial Drive.
He and partner Ryan Johnson, with whom he co-owns the Daily Catch fishmonger on the Drive, sunk their profits and savings into the truck.
They were issued a city permit and assigned a spot at the southeast corner of Grandview-Woodland park. They invested about $125,000 in the truck, with three deep fryers, an oven and custom paint job. They hired local chef Jeff Wilmott to whip up beer-battered fish and chips, fish cake sliders and calamari po’ boy sandwiches.
On Saturday, sales at the truck topped $2,500.
But despite brisk business over the past month, opposition from some residents and businesses has put the future of the truck — and other proposed food trucks on the Drive — in doubt.
“The majority of people love it. It’s just a few merchants who for some reason don’t want food trucks on Commercial Drive,” said Johnson, 30.
The neighbourhood Business Improvement Association asked them to move the truck from the park to an on-street parking spot, after some business owners said the truck blocks the view of the park from Renzo’s Cafe and that its generator is too noisy. (McCulloch says he paid $7,000 for an extra-quiet generator upgrade after an initial complaint was made.)
With the truck now forced to park from Monday to Friday on the Drive, paying for parking has added an unexpected $10,000 to the startup’s expenses.
“The only reason we built it is because we were offered this full-time spot at Grandview Park,” Johnson said. “We designed our business plan for the truck to be there full-time.”
The BIA bought two permits issued by the city last year for the Commercial Drive neighbourhood, intending to make sure they went to Drive entrepreneurs, despite the group’s stated opposition to such trucks in the neighbourhood. The Grandview-Woodland Area Council — a non-profit society set up to give area residents a voice in city decisions — also opposes them. Neither group responded to repeated requests for comment on Sunday.
The food truck “was just dropped in our lap,” said Andre Montagliani, owner of Renzo’s Café.
“No one ever consulted us about the food trucks being on Grandview Park,” he said.
But some merchants objected to the licences being used. “They (the BIA) said they would sit on the licences for now and, as they put it, ‘eat’ the licence fee,” Montagliani said.
But, with the licences costing $2,400 a year, the BIA last fall decided to invite applications for trucks. The Daily Catch received one, and another one is planned for farther south on the Drive.
Montagliani and other opponents took their complaints to the area council. After the meeting, which McCulloch said he was not notified of, the BIA asked the truck be moved until a solution is found and “some smoke has cleared.”
Montagliani sees the trucks as competition and as a nuisance — too loud, too smelly — and worries the truck will affect the sidewalk patio he plans to put in this summer.
“It’s not welcome. It competes directly with all the merchants here. There’s more than enough food options around the park for people. We don’t understand how the BIA could accept it and have food carts on Commercial Drive. We’d like to see them move somewhere else,” he said.
But the Daily Catch partners see it differently.
“There’s a lot of advantages to having a food truck in the park. It brings good people to the park. People can come and picnic. We don’t see any problem with it. A few small merchants may see us as competition. We don’t know why, because 99 per cent of people like it.”
The only other fish and chips outlet on Commercial Drive hasn’t voiced any opposition, McCulloch said.
Some Vancouver restaurateurs have been vocal in their opposition to the estimated 100 food trucks in operation, claiming they have an unfair advantage because they have lower overhead costs and don’t have to pay property taxes.
In January, the head of the B.C. Restaurant and Foodservices Association asked Vancouver city council to halt its plans to issue 24 additional permits over the next two years. But Mayor Gregor Robertson’s Vision Vancouver party and councillors have supported growing the number of the trucks.
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Murrells Inlet Bar hosts first food truck festival – WBTW
MURRELLS INLET, S.C. -
On Sunday, crowds enjoyed some tasty food in Murrells Inlet. But the meals weren’t from the Inlet’s restaurants, they were instead from food trucks.
The bar “Suck Bang Blow” hosted the event. The festival was originally scheduled for Saturday.
Bad weather moved the event to Saturday, and the sunshine brought out big crowds.
The event originally had nine trucks coming to participate in the event, but only three were available on Sunday.
But the festival wasn’t just about the food. The event also had live music, fortune tellers, representatives from animal shelters, and auto part sales.
Suck Bang Blow’s General Manger, Bill Barber said it’s nice to offer an event that new to Murrells Inlet.
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Tickets on sale for 10th anniversary Food and Wine Festival
Discounted tickets to the 10th anniversary Noosa International Food and Wine Festival are available until 1 April – conditions apply. (Chef’s from last year’s Spice Trail pictured).
Australia’s best wines and winemakers will emerge on the Sunshine Coast for a stellar tenth anniversary line up at the Noosa International Food and Wine Festival, running from 16-19 May 2013.
The festival will feature over 200 wines from 40 wineries where the stars of Australian winemaking will share their knowledge with enthusiastic consumers and wine buffs at the many and various wine-focused events throughout this year’s four-day food, wine and lifestyle program to delight amateur cooks, serious foodies, lifestyle enthusiasts and families alike.
In a truly a unique opportunity for people to meet and interact with their favourite winemakers, organisers have pulled out all stops for the 10th anniversary event, with new highlights in 2013 including:
• A world-first Gala Opening Concert, ‘Edible Music’, combining the talents of several of Australia’s most acclaimed musicians with ten of the world’s foremost chefs from the S. Pellegrino World’s Best Restaurants list.
• Two Qantas International Degustations featuring ten chefs from S. Pellegrino World’s Best Restaurants list and six of Australia’s leading chefs.
• Salute to Ten Years Degustation featuring chefs from our first food and wine festival.
• Three sublime Sunset Concerts with drinks and canapes at the iconic Noosa National Park Lookout, followed by dinner at three of Noosa’s premium restaurants.
• A Japanese/Indian Lunch with matched beers from Asahi and Kingfisher.
• The new Barefoot Beach Marquee on Noosa’s Main Beach will host some fabulous new events including the Australian final of the World Class Cocktails Competition, World Class Food Cocktail Pairing Dinner and a Seafood Feast on the Beach.
The crispy, crunchy lunch picnic – just a sample of the fabulous food that will be on offer at the Festival
Festival favourites are still on the menu; including Lifestyle Lunches, Riverside Picnics, Wine Masterclasses and Guest Chefs at Sunshine Coast’s Restaurants and, returning for 2013, is the hugely popular Top Tastes of Queensland Lunch, featuring the best of Queensland wines, chefs and produce.
Onstage entertainment once again features a stellar line-up, with the talents of Timomatic, Jane Rutter, Taryn Fiebig, Mahogany, Thomas Crane with Queen Bohemian Rhapsody, The Fabulous Singlettes and Martini Club providing the perfect celebration atmosphere.
Minister for Tourism, Major Events, Small Business and the Commonwealth Games, Jann Stuckey, welcomed the premier food and wine festival back to Queensland in 2013 and congratulated the event’s organisers on a decade of success.
“Through plenty of hard work and determination, the Noosa International Food and Wine Festival has gone from strength to strength over the last ten years and has grown into a much anticipated, culinary tourism event,” Minister Stuckey said.
“In 2013 visitors will be offered a fantastic program which will showcase some of our best regional produce and also position the Sunshine Coast as a great event and holiday destination.
Festival Director, Jim Berardo, is thrilled with the focus of the 2013 festival, saying he is proud the event has built to something recognised as truly world class.
“The Festival originated to acknowledge and promote Australian produce, wine and talent. Now Australia has a real presence in the world of food and wine and we have recognised this by the overseas talent that we are bringing to the Sunshine Coast,” Mr Berado said.
“As we get set to kick off our first decade of Noosa food and wine festivals, we have really tried to push the envelope to celebrate our tenth year with new iconic events and program inclusions that are so much more than just food and wine.”
General Admission tickets are $40 (adult) or $20 (accompanied child under 13) and will include Celebrity Chef Cooking Demonstrations, Culinary Exhibition, Courier Mail LIFE Annexe, Food Critics Cooking Competition and the live entertainment program.
One of the best ways to experience the Festival is with a Weekend Gold Pass which includes VIP Admission for Friday’s Westpac Welcome Cocktail Party, Saturday and Sunday with entry to hospitality pavilions and preferential concert seating.
Or, for the ultimate Noosa International Food and Wine Festival experience, indulge in four-days of food, wine, lifestyle and entertainment with the Platinum Experience, which includes access to the new first class platinum lounge (fully staffed with concierge services), VIP tickets to several events, premium seating at all festival entertainment and transfers to and from accommodation.
Download the new festival app or visit the website for the full program and online ticket bookings at www.noosafoodandwine.com.au or call (07) 5455 4455 for further information.
Tickets to the 10th anniversary Noosa International Food and Wine Festival have gone on sale, with a 10% discount offered for purchases before 1 April -conditions apply. (Chef’s from last year’s Spice Trail pictured).
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