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Food Truck Design 101: How To Design A Food Truck

The Restaurant Times

If you are planning to start your food truck, you must know that it involves a lot of work because you will be competing with more than 35,000 food trucks that are currently operating in the US. The number of food trucks has grown almost four times in the last decade resulting in very high competition.

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Restaurants Pivot to the new ‘Post-COVID’ Consumer Behavior Patterns

Modern Restaurant Management

It’s not enough just to recover, retail and specifically restaurants and the food industry are compelled to pivot, adapt and create a model that will endure. Conventions and meeting spaces, theme parks and hotels, and restaurants are finding it better to reduce indoor seating as it requires too much maintenance and risk.

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8 Successful Restaurant Concepts & Ideas to Inspire and Guide You

7 Shifts

Fresh: Modern vegan and vegetarian food with an emphasis on whole and natural ingredients. From casual restaurants and coffee shops to fast food chains and new trending restaurant concepts like the virtual restaurant , there's a restaurant concept for every owner and every diner. Example: Cluster Truck. Fast Food Chains.

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8 Ways Food Trucks Have Helped the Restaurant Industry Adapt to the Pandemic

MBB Hospitality

Food trucks have helped ease the transition from pre-pandemic times til now. Here are 8 ways food trucks have helped the restaurant industry adapt to the pandemic. While this was a hard hit for brick-and-mortar restaurants, this was time for food trucks to shine. The food that you ordered is hot and fresh.

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Winter Is Coming. Does Outdoor Dining Have a Future? 11 Great Tips for Restaurants

Cheetah

Outdoor dining in parklets, aka streateries, saved millions of restaurants and bars around the world during the COVID-19 pandemic. That’s great news for many restaurants who rely on outdoor dining as the only lifeline to tug them through winter. California Formalizes Outdoor Dining Through 2024. Reading Time: 4 minutes.

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What the American Rescue Plan Means for Restaurants

7 Shifts

Unlike previously passed legislation , this program provides debt-free grants , not loans, for restaurants, bars, food carts and trucks, caterers, cafes, breweries, and more. Any food or drinking establishment that is not part of a group with more than 20 locations. Who is eligible to receive funds? Any publicly traded company.

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Your Playbook to a Successful COVID-19 Restaurant Experience

Modern Restaurant Management

As states across the country have lifted and eased restrictions, more and more restaurants have been able to open up — but how are they adapting, especially if they don’t have proper outdoor patios? Remove buffet and other communal food areas. Give Your Outdoor Space a Refresh. — to reduce touchpoints.

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