Custom Food Trucks Built Around Your Menu

A custom food truck is the single biggest capital decision most operators make. Get it right and you have a mobile kitchen that keeps up with your busiest service for the next 10 years. Get it wrong — wrong layout, wrong equipment, wrong electrical — and you’re losing sales every Friday night until you replace it.

At Zion Foodtrucks, we build custom food trucks that are engineered around your specific menu, your volume, and your state’s health code. No stock templates, no “close enough” equipment substitutions.

What Makes a Food Truck “Custom”?

A lot of builders use the word “custom” to mean “you pick the paint color.” That’s not what we mean. A truly custom food truck is designed from the inside out:

Cook line designed for your menu — if you’re running tacos, your line needs a flat top, plancha, fryer, and a reach-in at arm’s length. If you’re doing wood-fired pizza, the oven drives the whole layout. We start with your menu and work outward.
Volume-rated equipment — a truck that does 150 tickets on a Saturday needs different refrigeration, hood CFM, and generator output than one doing 40 tickets at a corporate lunch spot.
State-specific compliance — Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, and every other state has different code requirements. We build to yours, not to a generic federal standard.
Your workflow — one-person crew vs. three-person crew changes the whole layout. Drive-thru service vs. walk-up window changes the window placement and prep area.

Our Custom Food Truck Build Process

Step 1 — Menu & Volume Discovery (Week 1)

We start with a 60-minute call where you walk us through your menu, your target daily ticket count, your crew size, and your first 6 months of planned events. Out of this call we produce a proposed cook line and layout.

Step 2 — Design & Spec Sheet (Week 1-2)

Detailed CAD layout, full equipment spec list with model numbers, generator sizing, electrical load calculations, and a firm price. You review, we revise until it’s right.

Step 3 — Chassis & Build (Weeks 3-7)

We source the chassis (new or used, your call), build the box, install plumbing, electrical, HVAC, hood and suppression, and every piece of equipment. Weekly photo updates so you can see progress.

Step 4 — Inspection & Handoff (Week 8)

We run a full commissioning test — every burner, every outlet, every water fixture. We walk you through every system and hand you the keys plus a manual tailored to your truck.

Equipment We Install in Custom Food Trucks

Flat-top griddles, charbroilers, planchas
Fryers (single, double, triple-bank)
Convection ovens, pizza ovens, rotisseries
Wood-fired and gas-fired pizza ovens
Espresso machines, grinders, hot water towers
Walk-in and reach-in refrigeration
Freezer drawers, blast chillers
Prep tables, cutting boards, stainless work surfaces
3-compartment sinks, prep sinks, hand sinks
Hood systems with fire suppression (Ansul)
Propane systems (vs. fully electric)
Generators sized to your actual load
Solar + battery backup (optional)

Custom Food Truck Sizes

We build in three standard box sizes plus fully custom trailer and Airstream conversions:

16 ft — coffee, ice cream, simple menu concepts. Affordable entry point.
20 ft — our most popular. Full cook line, 2-3 staff, most cuisines.
24 ft — high-volume production kitchens, festival circuits, dual service windows.
Custom — trailers (16-32 ft), Airstream conversions, shipping container restaurants, concession trailers.

How Much Does a Custom Food Truck Cost?

Custom builds from Zion Foodtrucks range from $60,000 to $180,000+ depending on size, equipment, and finishes. A reasonable budget for a turnkey 20-ft taco truck is $85,000-$110,000 all-in. Financing is available through our commercial equipment lending partners — most qualified buyers get approved in 48 hours.

For a detailed breakdown, read our guide: Food Trucks for Sale — New vs. Used Comparison.

Custom Food Trucks in Colorado, Wyoming, and Nationwide

Our shop is in Pueblo, CO. We serve operators across Colorado (Denver, Boulder, Fort Collins, Colorado Springs) and Wyoming (Cheyenne, Casper, Laramie), and we ship completed builds anywhere in the continental US.

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