Street Eats was created to track the trend of mobile eateries in the capital city. While mobile food is not new, the variety of options is, so stay tuned for more.
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Nice site, but will someone please open a pretzel and/or french fry cart. As an Irish Catholic, it is my dream pairing (lots of potatoes in Ireland, Catholic monks invented pretzels)!
I just visioned my hotdog/pretzel food cart and it’s location next to the kia dealer on 23/high st. no food places for 1/4 mile and great traffic flow. my fries will include 3 varieties…julianne fries, potato wedgies, and sweet potatoe fries…3 kinds of pretzels…regular, pizza’etzel, and cinn and sugar with vanilla dipping sauce…will include fountain drinks, topping bar for your fries, and 3 types of seasonings….table, season, and kosher salt n pepp mix. probably will take me 3 months to get things up and running
The Spud Bus is up and running with more potato options than you can imagine. They have a FB page. Check them out.
Love this site! So great to have alternatives to the traditional restaurant. We host a Labor Day Arts Festival and next year is our 45th and would love to do an all-food-cart event in 2011. It’s a fine art fine craft event and we get about 20,000 people. If you’re interested please email me so I can get in touch with you about the particulars.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Raashidas-Piece-Of-The-Hill/175022645859497
Great site. Great showing some love to local Carts. But it appears to be a bit out of date now. some updates would be nice.
Other wise thanks! Lots of great food on the streets of C-bus these days!
We’re in the process of updating it, the trucks have been late getting going this year due to the weather.
Hey,
My name is Andrew Hessler, a student at Ohio University. I’m currently in the college of business doing a mock business plan for starting up a street vendor business. I have a quick question for you, if you have the time. How much market share does an individual street vendor establishment expect to gain upon market entry? Please let me know if you have any thoughts.
Thank You,
Andrew H.
To be frank, given the huge number of mobile food vendors out there, I’d think the market share would almost inevitably be tiny – even for the guys that open with a big splash. Seems it’d be more helpful to define an area (ideally smaller than the city as a whole), assess the number of vendors that work it, and then go from there.
Also check with the owners of the Burrito Buggy and other food carts on the OU Campus.
There’s a new sheriff in town!
The Paddy Wagon Food Co. is back in 2011 to clean up the streets of Columbus and save its good citizens from the felonious fodder.
We are serving up culinary justice, one burger at a time! Patrolling your neighborhood and arresting your hunger. We are stationed Monday-Friday @ Neil ave. BP in Victorian Village from 1130a-10p. Come check us out or call it in and report directly to 614-735-0491. Facebook and Twitter: PaddyWagonFood
http://www.paddywagon.weebly.com
Bad Burgers are Unlawful.
Keep It Legal.
I am a food truck newbie. How does one find a food truck and how can I arrange to have a food truck stop by our work place? I work in the Easton area.
Thanks!
April, the best thing is to contact the owner of the truck directly (via facebook, twitter, email or phone). Trucks like MoJoe TAGO, the cheesy truck and Fusion Cafe visit company locations. You would need to have space in the parking lot for them.
Brand new food cart to Columbus called Yellow Boy’s Polish Boy’s. I operate on Friday and Saturday nights and create this amazing sandwich that originated out of Cleveland,OH..What is it you ask???????? An all beef polish sausage dressed all up with what you have to see in order to believe. Follow me on Twitter @Yellowpolishboy to see my locations and to get more info!!!!
Hi Heidi (and anyone else out there that is interested in partnering with Food Trucks and Carts). One option is contact the Food Fort at ECDI. 614.559.0193. (I contacted Heidi directly with other options).
I was wondering if you could offer up some advice for me. I am looking to get two food trucks to cater our wedding. We are getting married at a private residence at the end of June. Do you know of any trucks that do this normally or would be interested?
There are several trucks in town that do catering. As with any caterer – try the food first and see what you think then approach the truck with a date, a budget and a range of foods you want to have. We did contact Mandy offline to give her suggestions but we unfortunately do not have time to serve as a broker for trucks and catering events. The trend to have trucks cater for lunch, special events and wedding is growing. Several weddings in Columbus have already tried this approach with success.
Hi Mandy! I am thinking about doing something similar for my wedding. I would really appreciate it if you could pass along any advice to me at kelly.hiteshew@gmail.com. Thank you!
Kelly, http://thefoodfort.com can assist with finding food trucks for events and has experience doing so.
Love the website I was thinking about getting into the food truck biz and was wondering how does one go about getting into the festivals that you have listed on your website
Hello – we will answer that question off line. For future folks looking for information on this topic take a look at Metropreneur
http://www.themetropreneur.com/columbus/topics/food-trucks/ and follow the tweets of @FoodFortColumbus.
Hi – I am the owner of the Across the Field Buckeye Store, located at 2781 Olentangy River Rd, just north of Ackerman Rd. I would like to offer my parking lot (with electricity, water and plenty of grass and trees) to any food carts that need a spot. Our store is in an old renovated church and is a very unique Buckeye store. There is a lot of OSU traffic in the area and I think it would be a good spot, especially during football season! You can contact me at davidj@acrossthefieldstore.com. Thanks!
Will you ever have a map of the food truck locations? You had one on the tacotruck site and it was really usefull!
We’d love to, but most of them don’t stay in one place! The easiest way to keep up with where any given truck will be is to follow them on twitter. The twitter list is here: http://twitter.com/streeteatscbus/street-eats-columbus/members
There have been rumblings about an app that would keep track of truck locations, but as far as we know nothing worthwhile has come of it.
As a prior resident of Columbus,Ohio, I’m super jealous. I have worked in the food industry now for 10+ years. It’s great to see the mobile food boom that I had once wanted to get in on myself years ago actually happening. Keep it up y’all. What’s really hood! Kenny Kim what’s up!
Chef wade t smith, CSC
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