Careers, Jobs, Small Business Seminars, Starting &Growing Your Business: How To Start Your Own Food Truck!
Do you have a great recipe that everyone raves about? Are you interested in giving up your day job to take on the intrepid life of a food-trucker? Before you take out a second mortgage to finance your new truck, stop by this session to learn about life on the streets in NYC from the perspective of a street vendor.
David Weber, author of The Food Truck Handbook, gives an overview of what it takes to start your own food truck.
The discussion includes:
- The rise of Mobile Food
- Will food trucks endure?
- What it takes to be a vendor
- NYC Rules & Regulations
- Picking a concept
- Writing a business plan & raising funds
- Operating best practices
Weber is President of the NYC Food Truck Association, an instructor at the Institute for Culinary Education, and co-founder of Rickshaw Dumplings.
Seating is on a first come, first seated basis unless otherwise noted.