An espresso machine pulling a double shot draws more current than most people expect. Add a drip brewer running a batch, a refrigerator and a small freezer cycling, an ice machine making a harvest, a water heater recovering, and an air conditioner holding a metal box at a workable temperature in a Nebraska August. None […]
All Electric Coffee Van Built for LD Coffee Roasters in Hastings, Nebraska Read More »
Nearly every food trailer on the road depends on a kitchen it does not own. The health department calls it a commissary or a servicing area, and it is where you fill your water, dump your grey water tank, wash your equipment and store your stock. You sign an agreement with somebody who has a
16ft Fancy Toast and Iced Coffee Trailer Built as a Commissary for Boulder, Colorado Read More »
Lakewood is the easiest big city on the Front Range to put a food truck on the road, and almost nobody says so. Denver has its own licence, its own rules and its own queue. Lakewood has 156,900 people, a full calendar of city run events, a brewery scene that runs trucks most nights of
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There is a generator box on the side of this truck and there is no generator in it. It holds cups, napkins and boxes of frying oil. That was not a mistake or a cost cut we talked the customer into. Sweetly Roasted looked at where they were going to park, decided they did not
14ft Roasted Corn Food Truck Built for Sweetly Roasted in Lakewood, Colorado Read More »
Once you have decided to buy new rather than used, there is a second decision most first time owners do not realize they are making: take a truck someone already built, or have one built around your menu. Both are legitimate. They suit different people, and the difference shows up in your workflow every single
Buy a Stock Food Truck or Build Custom? How to Decide Read More »
The honest answer is that a used food truck costs less than a new build, but the gap is smaller than the listing price suggests, and the reason has nothing to do with the vehicle. It has to do with what you are actually buying: the back half of everything’s service life, a kitchen designed
Used Food Truck vs New Build: What the Numbers Say (2026) Read More »
A 2010 Freightliner step van rebuilt as a 14ft smashburger truck and shipped to the Black Hills, plus what a South Dakota food truck license actually costs and what the Rapid City ordinance says.
14ft Smashburger Food Truck Built for Rapid City, South Dakota Read More »
Bozeman readers voted a food truck the best burger in town. Not a restaurant, a truck. Cholms Burger took the 2025 Bozeman’s Choice award for Burgers, working smash patties and hand cut fries out of the food truck court on North 7th Avenue. In a city with Burger Bob’s on Main Street since 1982 and
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A 16ft fried chicken food truck built for Sapphire Chicken in Corvallis, Montana, serving breakfast and lunch across the Bitterroot Valley and Missoula. Two 40lb fryers, a breading station, a 9 pan proofer, four refrigeration units, and a 12kW generator.
A 14ft school bus to food bus conversion Zion Foodtrucks built for a Grand Junction school system, with an all-stainless interior, an espresso machine, hot holding, two refrigerators, and a 12kW Cummins generator.
School Bus to Food Bus Conversion Built for a Grand Junction School District Read More »
Every permit and inspection a mobile food business needs, in one printable checklist. Tell us where to send it.
