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Food truck owner

Runs a mobile food business, from van or trailer to festival stall. Owners cook, sell, market and handle all the admin of a small business on wheels.

A real shift

Prep at a commissary kitchen, drive to pitch, set up, serve through the rush, break down and clean. Admin happens at night.

Skills that matter

  • Small menu, high speed
  • Business and finance
  • Marketing and social media
  • Generators and gas safety
  • Permits and pitches

Qualifications

  • Level 2 Food Safety
  • Council food business registration
  • Gas safety certificates and street trading licences

Where it leads

  1. Food truck owner
  2. Bricks-and-mortar restaurant
  3. Multiple vans
  4. Event catering

What we'd ask on the show

  • Is street food the new restaurant apprenticeship?
  • Festival economics
  • Rain, generators and the market pitch

Work as a food truck owner? Come on the show

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