Loving the Food Truck Trend
Eduardo Kerese
FYW 102 MWF 10:00am
Dr. Doyle
Research Paper
04/30/2012
Loving the food truck trend. This year during my spring break, I travelled to New York City. It was impossible not to notice the large amount of trucks serving food all across the Prince street of SoHo, and the huge quantity of customers lined up waiting anxiously for their food to be served. The food looked simple, but well presented in small paper plates. Everything from tacos, to sandwiches to Greek gyros were provided by these trucks. More than food, the trucks seemed to be providing a social gathering were everyone eat standing and some even interact with one another. This is a trend that I already had noticed a couple of times in the city of Tampa where I live, but I thought that these trucks were only used for special events, because that was the only occasion where I saw them. The moment I arrived from my trip to New York City, I was anxious to see more of these trucks, and started noticing that they were present not only in events like I used to thinks, but also right in front of Franklin St the street that I live in, and at the famer’s market every weekend in downtown Tampa as well. The trucks were the actual creator of the events. So, it is obvious that this trend is growing, but the question is why did these trucks become so popular? When I first saw a food truck here in Tampa I remembered about a reality show I once watched called The Great Food Truck Race. This show aired on the Food Network in 2010, the show consisted of even specialty food trucks (eight in season two) that compete against each other for six weeks in different cities. It is possible that the this food trucks trend originated from this show, but if not, it was when I first hear of such thing called a “Food Truck”.
A food truck as the name implies is a truck of mobile venue that sells food, all types of foods. With a moving kitchen and catchy names like Killer Samich, Taco Bus, Burger Culture, Fat
FYW 102 MWF 10:00am
Dr. Doyle
Research Paper
04/30/2012
Loving the food truck trend. This year during my spring break, I travelled to New York City. It was impossible not to notice the large amount of trucks serving food all across the Prince street of SoHo, and the huge quantity of customers lined up waiting anxiously for their food to be served. The food looked simple, but well presented in small paper plates. Everything from tacos, to sandwiches to Greek gyros were provided by these trucks. More than food, the trucks seemed to be providing a social gathering were everyone eat standing and some even interact with one another. This is a trend that I already had noticed a couple of times in the city of Tampa where I live, but I thought that these trucks were only used for special events, because that was the only occasion where I saw them. The moment I arrived from my trip to New York City, I was anxious to see more of these trucks, and started noticing that they were present not only in events like I used to thinks, but also right in front of Franklin St the street that I live in, and at the famer’s market every weekend in downtown Tampa as well. The trucks were the actual creator of the events. So, it is obvious that this trend is growing, but the question is why did these trucks become so popular? When I first saw a food truck here in Tampa I remembered about a reality show I once watched called The Great Food Truck Race. This show aired on the Food Network in 2010, the show consisted of even specialty food trucks (eight in season two) that compete against each other for six weeks in different cities. It is possible that the this food trucks trend originated from this show, but if not, it was when I first hear of such thing called a “Food Truck”.
A food truck as the name implies is a truck of mobile venue that sells food, all types of foods. With a moving kitchen and catchy names like Killer Samich, Taco Bus, Burger Culture, Fat
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