Local Food Lunch Cart
Tuesday, April 20th, 2010I’ve had this idea for a while and have shared it with a number of friends. Everyone likes it that I talk to about it, but I’ve done nothing with it to move it forward. So, I figure I’ll throw the loose idea out here to see if anyone gets inspired to get it started. I’d love to help if you want to do something about it. At one point I thought of calling it Taste Station (and had the URL, but no longer) do. Anyway, here goes..
I’m sure you’ve seen the publicity for the “taco trucks” that twitter where they are and people show up for lunch — Jamie Oliver has the Green Truck in Huntington now. I’ve thought that be leveraging a network of farmers a lunch-styled cart could be used for a lunch time crowd. The idea is this: make 50 lunches (or whatever number is right) using locally grown/sourced foods to create lunches for $XX everyday ($5/lunch sounds good, but don’t know the costs).
Anyway, there would be no choices for the patrons, just a set lunch where you get what it is we made. So one day it could be a pbj made with locally produced bread, peanut butter and a cherry jam with a glass of milk and carrots. Another day could be a huge chopped salad and fruit flavored water or a pulled pork sandwich with a veg and iced tea. Anyway, the point is we’d use local produce and farms and whatnot to produce a set menu lunch daily (M-F) for a set price for set number of lunches.
That’s the quick idea. I’ve thought we could get a street cart/airstream to park somewhere, advertise via email/twitter/facebook the lunch of the day and when we sellout we’re done for the day. We’d need a kitchen which I think we could find, we’d need food and customers.
I’d love to build this/invest in it; I believe it’s scalable to different cities. I’ve got a few great contacts in different areas that I’d share should someone be (seriously) interested in working together.





