Fresh Food from Green Truck
Pam and I interviewed the general manager of Green Truck on our radio show Carefree Food Bytes last Friday afternoon. If you missed the live show, you can listen to the archive. I highly recommend that you do. Not just because I am a co-host, but because Green Truck is proving you can be a responsible business (to people, the community and the environment) and still make a profit!
Green Truck offers organic, locally grown foods for sale from its restaurant on wheels – yes an old fashioned catering truck. They do the heavy lifting – food prep from their base site and the two-man crew assembles the food and takes your cash for a nice profit. Consumers get fresh, healthy foods and Green Truck gets a nice return.
Green Truck truck’s are green too. Not the color… no, they run on vegetable oil, are washed with water that was used during food prep and they serve on compositable paper goods. Yes, they are leak proof! The are cornstarch laminated. They purchase their foods from local, organic farmers and so their menu does change a bit if ingredients are not readily available. Their menu is also seasonal, yes, we do have seasons in Southern California – for fresh foods at least!
Their goal is to feed people healthy food and educate. Educate on what? On eating in a healthy and sustainable way – yes you too can order green paper products, and the more you do, the less they will cost the consumer. And they are educating folks that being green doesn’t mean being broke. Green Truck runs in the black, even though their trucks run over $100,000 a piece – still cheaper than running a restaurant!
They currently have four trucks in Los Angeles and one in New York. They are looking to have Green Trucks in every state. If you are interested in a franchise business with green truck simply visit their site at www.greentrucktogo.com and fill out an information request form.
Want to try out some of their food? Sign up for their twitter and facebook sites to get daily tweets and updates on their locations everyday. I for one and going to find them this week…. I hear the Mother Trucker vegan burger is the BEST!
