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Breezing Through a Food Truck Health Inspection
• May 31, 2017
Categories: Food Trucks
You’ve ordered, received and installed every bit of the commercial kitchen ventilation that you needed for your food truck. Business has been brisk. Everything seems to be running smoothly. Until the health department decides to inspect your operation to make sure everything is also running safely.
It’s wise to treat every day as though your restaurant operation could be inspected. That way, the chances of threats to food safety can be minimized. Plus, you’re not caught flatfooted. Here are some tips, courtesy of Mobile-Cuisine.com, for ensuring that your food truck passes its health inspection:
Make a point to carefully inspect your truck at least once a month. When conducting these self-inspections, it’s a good idea to have someone else play your role so that all employees will know what to expect. In fact, you may wish to pull a surprise inspection. Use a local inspection sheet, if available, point out positive and negative findings and then meet with your staff to delegate who will do what to remediate any outstanding issues.
Use previous inspection reports to help you and your staff clean your service window area, kitchen, cooler and storage areas. By demonstrating to an inspector that you are willing to address previous issues, you show that you take the process seriously, which can only help in the long run, as you will often deal with the same inspector on each visit...

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Going Beyond Concession Basics
• May 31, 2017
Categories: Food Trucks
Going Beyond Concession Basics Time was when all that anyone expected – or seemingly wanted – from a concession stand was a hot dog or burger, maybe a cardboard boat full of crinkle-cut fries or onion rings and a sugary soft drink to wash...

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Food Truck Fare Is Booming
• May 31, 2017
Categories: Food Trucks
Of all of the indicators that show that the nation’s economy is on an upswing, maybe the least noticeable of all is what’s been happening with food truck prices lately. > What used to be a venue for a cheap sandwich, slice of piz...

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Tracking Food Trucks Via GPS
• May 31, 2017
Categories: Food Trucks
Practically anyone following the development and growth of the food truck industry could have seen this one coming: Rather than having to take one’s chances as to which trucks are parked where on any given day – some communities only spec...

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Ready for Food Truck Franchising?
• May 31, 2017
Categories: Food Trucks
With franchise businesses expected to generate more than 4.5% of U.S. Gross Domestic Product in 2015 – and with restaurants being the largest franchisors – is your food truck concept strong enough to consider joining the big boys in Franc...

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