/u/NarwhalEmergency9391
I paid $20 for a poutine that was half the size of the
box they served it in...I would've been more satisfied
if they slapped me while handing it to me |
/u/Rocketeering
You could always go to Ren Fair for that service |
/u/sn2006gy
At the Ren Fair it would be 50 bucks for parking and 35
for Poutine and wait in line for a slap from someone who
follows you around asking for a tip |
/u/Felwintyr
And then a drunk guy would knock half the tray out of
your hands as he stumbles by yelling gibberish |
/u/arbyyyyh
Feels all very period accurate |
/u/Frequent-Reporter-97
I feel all of you, but we do need to realize that the
only "voting" that matters in the context of this issue,
is voting with your dollar.
Why is it $20? Because that's the price they put on the
board and the price people pay for the service. That's
all there is to any of this.
Same with OP's post. They are saying "Why am I paying
$22 for tacos to eat standing next to a parking lot?" I
dunno, man, why are you paying $22 for tacos to eat
standing next to a parking lot? The price is what it is
because you and every other customer that comes around
had paid for it to be that price. And just enough people
come back to pay that price every time, so that's what
it's worth.
The way this shit works is you're supposed to have the
poor experience, do the value assessment and then stop
paying for it. Instead, people have the poor experience
and continue to pay for it. Its not just food trucks.
Its how Five Guys prospers. Its how UberEats prospers.
Its how Netflix prospers. All of these businesses are
doing the same exact thing. They don't care about the
price to quality of service ratio because they know
you're coming back.
If all the people that complained about the price of
UberEats erected a spine and said to themselves "You
know what, fuck it, I'm not ordering UberEats. I'm going
to walk my ass down the street and pick the food up."
Guess what? Uber would have no choice but to offer
improvements to their service and their pricing to win
your favor back. And if they don't and people continue
to stop using their service and they fail to adapt and
buy you back? Guess what? They'd lose a tremendous
amount of money and potentially even go out of business.
That's how this shit is supposed to work. |
/u/J1nx5d
I genuinely feel like Im losing my mind. If something
starts getting worse you dont just shrug your shoulders
and go with it, YOU FUCKING DROP IT.
Any minor inconvenience should be grounds for being
dropped. Stop paying for mediocre dog shit. If something
is too expensive then stop supporting it. This is
especially true for the companies that start off super
cheap in order to bully out competition before raising
their rates constantly. All youre doing is supporting
the leeches that pull this nonsense |
/u/Toomanynightshifts
Bro gamers have struggled with this concept for over a
decade and wonder why every new game is $100 and nickel
and dimes you every chance it gets.
Because of FOMO, because people have no wallet
discipline and don't want to wait. |
/u/J1nx5d
When Playstation announced they were moving to mandatory
PS Plus for online play for the PS4 I was out. Their
service was not good enough to justify paying extra for.
When it was an optional service that came with perks I
was more than happy to put money into it. And yet all
you'd hear is the same stupid justifications for why
people paid for it.
I built a PC and never looked back. |
/u/catontoast
Patient gamers unite! I love getting AAA games with all
the DLC for $20 a year or three later. |
/u/beastfeces
I've never door dashed or anything but I was super lazy
once and ordered Wingstop for 45 dollars, when I got to
the checkout the total was 95 dollars. I got so pissed
at the world because I never realized it was like this.
I cancelled, still felt lazy and made a frozen pizza at
home. If I'm to lazy to pick on food on the rate
occurance that I don't cook, then I'm not eating. All
these poor people paying this shit will never get ahead.
I'm not rich by any means, but you hit the nails on the
head hear. Stop paying bullshit prices and make them
have to lower them! I have coworkers that pay 15 dollars
for a coffee to be delivered less then a mile away and I
hear them complain about bills |
/u/Ulysses502
I shit you not, I was in a Casey's gas station this
morning and a doordasher came in and picked up a
breakfast burrito. Not a pizza, a $4 breakfast burrito.
In a town of 1,300 people, that has a median household
income of $52k and poverty rate of 18%... |
/u/Rugaru985
I keep seeing post after post of 90s nostalgia - about
what life was like pre-internet...
We made our own food all the damn time. Shit was cheap
because mom made a giant bowl of chicken salad that
you'd eat if you didn't have $4 for a double quarter
pounder meal.
Yes, tacos were $0.35 each from Taco Bell or something
fucking crazy - but that's because it takes 10 minutes
to make your own.
We lived locally in actual towns, not subdivisions. It
was easy to run home and eat. You didn't just have to
"leftovers", you had meals cooked just to be in the
fridge all week.
My mom made a 5 gallon pot of spaghetti every Sunday
night because we were a house with 5 boys.
Millennials lost all this in the social media menus we
now have for home cooking. We don't hold ourselves or
our kids to eating in the home. We have to get back to
it and make going out to eat an experience again |
/u/TribblesIA
I agree, but it comes with the caveat of Mom had to do
all that cooking. Mom works, now. She did back then,
likely too, but when you're a grown up, you have to be
the one cooking five gallons of spaghetti. I'm all for
it, but don't pass the labor off without paying for it.
That said, we need to normalize brown bagging lunches
again. Everyone at work goes out to eat because
otherwise you're "missing out." Not really. Park up next
to people, much away at your amazing past you made the
night before, and don't judge anyone for not wanting to
spend $20 for a giant burrito they probably can't finish
without hating themselves. |
/u/Spiritual_Bus1125
Fries are so cheap , at least don't skip on that... |
/u/scallopsmustagottem
I went to a lobster food truck for my work to pick up
lunch for upper mgmt and a few others. Waited almost 2
hours because they "were almost ready" like 5 times.
Spent prolly $50 per person on lobster rolls and it was
tiny chunks of lobster on the cheapest hotdog buns I've
ever tasted. At least I got paid for waiting. |
/u/slaytallica36
Sounds like Cousins Lobster rolls. Made it to the menu
before I realized I didn't want to sell a kidney for
lunch. |
/u/discerningpervert
Not literally, I mean, come on. |
/u/MrT-1000
Ah I see you've been to Les Cousins Dangereux food
truck? |
/u/RoonSwanson86
I like the way the French think |
/u/Designer_Lead_1492
They gaslight people into thinking they're good bc they
are so expensive, gtfo |
/u/GotSomeUpdogOnUrFace
They were on shark tank so they are being run by
corporate interests and I believe as franchises that I
would assume have crazy fees. I don't deal with anything
from shark tank. |
/u/GetInZeWagen
You don't want to buy from a company that brags to your
face about how much of a markup they're adding? |
/u/GotSomeUpdogOnUrFace
More so I don't want to help put money in the pockets of
any one of those worthless pieces of shit on that
fucking show. |
/u/champgpt
Mostly agreed, but scrub daddy is a good fuckin sponge
fr |
/u/Hashgar
I read their book because I was interested in opening a
food truck. It was nothing but glazing Main lobsters and
their "partnership" absolutely nothing about opening a
food truck that was useful. |
/u/18k_gold
I've also seen a couple of storefronts for them now. |
/u/double00chins
I'm so sick of restaurants putting more into their
social media campaigns than their actual fucking food |
/u/WuTangIs4TheRugrats
My folks are from Rockland, as in home of the Rockland
Lobsterfest, and they swear by Cousins. They've always
equated $$$ to quality but this one shocked me. Won't
catch me paying $40 for a lobster roll, I'll wait until
I visit home and get the $10 ones from the trailer
outside of Reny's. I miss the days when they were $5
though.
True story, when they were telling me about Cousins I
thought they meant one of my cousins because 4 out of 5
are lobstermen, lol. |
/u/Mental-Coconut-7854
I paid $19 for a food truck lobster roll about 10 years
ago.
The bun was good, but it was just lobster and mayo in
it. It wasn't bad, but it wasn't craveable.
I really failed to see or taste the hype. |
/u/Guilty_Advantage_413
Agreed last food truck was a potato truck that had some
poutine. I think with a drink and some chicken on it the
total was $25. The meal was okay, it wasn't bad but it
certainly was very expensive for some fries, gravy and a
few ounces of chicken. |
/u/Netoflavored
At my store I wanted to lower prices because we are
doing a service in house now and dont need to outsource
anymore, so cost was down.
The funny part was when I told customers about lowering
prices they said I shouldn't because if we lower them
any cheaper people will think we do poor quality. These
are customers telling me this. Granted this was the few,
others have appreciated it with the rising gas prices. |
/u/True-Firefighter-796
Do you work at Publix? |
/u/Quitcha_Bitchin
I just gave up on Lobster when I moved away from the
coast. If I can find it it's not worth finding inland. |
/u/karmakatastrophe
Yeah I went from PNW to Baltimore and lived on lobster
rolls while I was out there. Now I live in SoCal and
have given up on good lobster rolls. The one thing I
miss about Baltimore. |
/u/Exciting_Mess3730
Thats it? The murder rate is at historic low. Come on
back, we won't kill you! |
/u/Legitimate-Article50
That was the most shitty lobster roll I ever had. |
/u/stinkdrink45
I'm so glad I did t stop when I finally spotted one of
their food trucks. |
/u/absenceofheat
lol had the same experience. Didn't know they were a
chain! |
/u/ateiii
$50 for a lobster roll at a window where you have to
throw away your own paper tray afterward is nuts |
/u/SBNShovelSlayer
Don't forget to tip! |
/u/ballisticturtle
Turkish: "What's happening with them lobsters, Charlie?"
Lobster Charlie: "Five minutes, Turkish." Turkish: "It
was two minutes five minutes ago." |
/u/Tangentkoala
The funny thing is lobsters are probably the only
product that weren't affected by inflation.
I can still get a lobster tail 3 oz for 5$ or 12$ for a
whole one. Same prices as 7 years ago |
/u/blumpkingagger
Where do you live dawg |
/u/blueribbonspy
I had a buddy who got a lobster roll from a food truck.
When he unwrapped it after walking away he realized they
didn't put any lobster in it. He went back saying what
the hell and they accused him of eating the lobster out
of the bun and going back trying to scam him. Hilarious. |
/u/OxycontinEyedJoe
Lobster rolls in general are just super mid.
When I was living in NH I got one, it was like $25-$30
or something and I was like "oh it's literally just
lobster meat on a roll" not gross or anything, just
nothing special. I tried another one from somewhere else
just to be sure.
If they were $5-$10 I might eat a couple a year, but
for what they cost I'll probably never eat another. |
/u/Heisenberg3556
HAS to be Cousin's Maine. Absolutely awful. It's easily
top for the food choice I regret paying for most in my
42 years on earth. Tiny chunks of lobster on a folded
piece of irregularly small toast. |
/u/Xayahbetes
Were you there 2 hours early or was lunch 2 hours late?
Hope you didn't get shit for that |
/u/lalasworld
To have lobster at any reasonable price, you pretty much
have to know a guy who catches them.
My parents' guy is two high schoolers with a boat. |
/u/Hamilton-Beckett
Yeah. Food trucks became a big thing around here lately,
with several showing up on food delivery apps as well.
The prices are absolutely stupid though.
Food trucks are supposed to be cheaper because they
don't have all the overhead costs of a brick and mortar
location, but at a time when everyone is tightening
their belts, they're just cutting corners on quality and
raising prices. |
/u/resin_messiah
With the demand of food trucks it's actually not much
cheaper anymore. A cheap food truck will cost you
$80,000 to own. Renting one can cost well over $2000 a
month. It's the reason why I rent a small brick and
mortar in a shit area instead of own/rent a food truck.
You're actually just paying for the convenience of being
able to move the restaurant to locations for events and
high volume areas where you couldn't afford to rent a
space. |
/u/serious_sarcasm
You also still need access to a brick and mortar the
vast majority of the time. |
/u/resin_messiah
Exactly. You can't have all the equipment for prepping
complicated foods in a truck most of the time.
Particularly my local bagel trucks. They're all made at
a prep kitchen then they're cut and topped on the truck. |
/u/Enkiduderino
In Mass even if you could make everything on the truck
you need to have a licensed b&m kitchen regardless.
Makes it very difficult to have a standalone truck if
you don't already have a restaurant. |
/u/Historical_Course587
On top of all the other reasons people have mentioned, I
think what is often overlooked with the food truck
business model is how it appeals to people without
business sense. The ground floor pitch is "gas plus
ingredients is cheap!" but that's so far away from
reality:
Vehicle registration, insurance, power/gas, and
maintenance are ongoing costs.
Parking to serve is often not free.
The business model is more susceptible to inclement
weather.
Local health and food service codes can be brutal.
But perhaps the most killer aspect of all is that food
trucks simply aren't scalable, except to move into that
dreaded brick & mortar location and become a real
restaurant despite not having any practice in that
regard. Good food service workers will choose B&M over
working in a truck, so adding those initial employees is
a hurdle and they will eat the profit margins alive.
Some trucks try to permanently park somewhere, but it's
more of a stop-gap that makes life easier than one of
growing a business.
Food trucks are a business model that's kind of doomed
to fail, that appeals to people who are too afraid of
business to open a full-function restaurant. I'd love to
see some deep dives on the operations of a food truck
company that had managed to succeed for say 20 years the
way a hole-in-the-wall restaurant can, if those kinds of
food trucks even exist. |
/u/Hotkoin
The latter part supposes that the goal of the food
trucker is to scale up of course, vs making a living. |
/u/Physical_Noise_8484
its almost harder to get a truck up and running than a
brick and mortar in regards to not only local health
codes etc plus most towns want a piece so it not like
you just pull over and sell then peace out, tax man
wants his cut too. |
/u/woodyshag
They also have to have access to a commissary to prepare
their food to be FDA approved. Anything that has to be
prepared must have access to a kitchen. We used to rent
a space from a gentlemen that ran a kitchen for this
reason. Unfortunately, when he closed down, he took
about 6 food trucks with him because there were no
equivalents around. |
/u/AspieAsshole
They also take way too long to prepare the food these
days, at least where I live. |
/u/Significant-Ad-341
For real. Had 30 minute lunch, walked across a street,
ordered tacos. Got them and ate immediately and I had 1
minute by the time I got back. |
/u/OlleyatPurdue
I literally ate at an IHOP In that same amount of time.
I did not order ahead of time. I went in sat down
ordered, got my food, and ate in less than 30 minutes. |
/u/This_Attorney_2897
Did you get the pancakes with the smilie face? |
/u/Computer_Panda
The best pancakes! 🥞😋 |
/u/Classic_Reply_703
You know, IHOP is what it is, and I mean that in a good
way. I also just had a "we should have just gone to
IHOP" moment a few weeks ago when I went to a local
place for brunch that Reddit had raved about. And it was
straight up bad. And the whole time I was thinking, IHOP
would have served us faster, at a more comfortable
table, and it would have cost less, and it would have
tasted better. I guess I haven't actually been in a few
years so it might have been Panera-ed by now, but I hope
not. |
/u/scalyblue
They opened an ihop near me recently and i had one of
those sinfully bloated steak omelette, aside from the
salsa being a bit shit, it was pretty much the same
quality as the one I used to go to in 2012 |
/u/OlleyatPurdue
That nonsense was like 8 years ago. I'm surprised I even
remember it. |
/u/Bagz402
Lol I got ceviche off a food truck, after almost an hour
of waiting I go back to ask where my food is, and the
lady says it's marinating.
That threw me off because I know how ceviche works but
how the fuck do they not have like a bin of prepared
fish to assemble on order? They really marinade the fish
to order??? I guess it was fresh at least.. |
/u/Roach_Coach_Bangbus
This is the most insane shit I have ever heard in terms
of ceviche. Whenever I'm in Mexico there are ceviche
sellers that have everything prepped in coolers. I can't
imagine waiting for ceviche to marinate to order. |
/u/Bagz402
That's what I'm saying! You "cook" the fish then remove
the Leche, and then you can have it sit in a cold box
waiting for order.
You don't order a brisket and wait the 6 hours. It's
the same concept |
/u/Goatty-Goat
"I'll have the apple pie"
"You can wait over there, the apples aren't ripe yet.
Your order will be ready in 3 months." |
/u/grape-fruit-witch
Its because curing the fish only takes a few minutes.
You make ceviche to order because it takes almost no
time- idk what the fuck these people were doing
"marinating" the fish for over an hour |
/u/RivenRise
If anything i would prefer the shellfish be pre
marinated and stored in a fridge than raw and stored in
the fridge. At least marinating cooks it in lemon and
reduces bacteria and stuff, at least last time I
checked. |
/u/necromantzer
Lemon doesn't kill bacteria or parasites. Freezing it
before the process does. There's no real benefit to not
leave it in the fridge thawing in lemon, though, from
what I gather. |
/u/AggravatingFlow1178
This was when made me swear off food trucks all
together.
Generally I found them tastier & more convenient than
many restaurants, so I didn't mind when the price crept
up. But in the last ~5 years, I find myself waiting 10+
minutes for some food truck tacos/burger/etc and at that
point the absence of a nice place to sit become
significantly more annoying.
Same thing happened to fast food. If it's unhealthy,
expensive, not-that-fast, and not exceptionally tasty
then why would I ever purchase food there. |
/u/SomethingWetAndMoist
"Unhealthy, expensive, not-that-fast, and not
exceptionally tasty" perfectly sums up McDonald's and
why I haven't eaten there in years. |
/u/sly_cooper25
They forgot their niche. We're perfectly fine with
unhealthy and not exceptionally tasty food from
McDonalds. We're not fine with it being expensive or
slow.
I used to eat McDonalds at least once a week back in
high school. The food (aside from the fries) is all
mediocre at best but it would be ready right away and
cost me like $5.35 for a meal. |
/u/Hagbard_Shaftoe
Bless you for excluding the fries from your blanket
statement. When you get them hot and fresh, they're the
platonic ideal of the fry. |
/u/werdnurd
And when you get them fresh, they are still tasty when
they get cold. The time under the lamps kills them IMO. |
/u/Dangermouse454
Those fries are delicious for about 3.5 minutes... after
they cool, they have the texture of dead crickets |
/u/Dull-Culture-1523
Fast food generally has two things they compete on -
price and convenience. If it's cheap you can wait
longer. If it's fast you can pay more. The third thing
to consider is, of course, quality. But fast food
restaurants haven't really had to compete on that
because nobody goes there for quality to begin with.
Nowadays, however, fast food places like McDonald's
have crept up in price and down in convenience far
enough for quality to actually be a consideration. As
in, why would I ever go to McDonald's if I can get
better quality food for the same price as fast from a
sit-down restaurant? If McDonald's isn't cheaper or more
convenient, why would you ever visit them when you know
they're definitely not the same quality as any other
restaurant around them? |
/u/Unbelievr
Here in Norway at least they've started pushing more
"gourmet" products, like if people went there for that.
I wouldn't mind the increase in quality if it didn't
also double or triple the cost. They're selling lower
quality burgers than you'll find at a burger focused
bar/restaurant (which also has better seats and beer
selection), at the same (or higher) price point. The
bars aren't charging extra for ketchup either.
I used to be able to go into McDonald's and order one
of their plain burgers for like $1 and get handed it
immediately. Now I need to stand in line to punch in my
order on a screen, then pay an outrageous amount and
wait for so long. I don't really have any reason to step
into one these days. |
/u/TeaKingMac
The bars aren't charging extra for ketchup either.
Your maccas charges for ketchup? That's fucked mate |
/u/xxMystic
In America some McDonalds charge for extra sauce. |
/u/Awkward_Turnover_983
Yeah, honestly I hope people still find ways to steal it |
/u/Commonly_Correct
When 5 guys is cheaper than MacDonalds, all reason to go
there has ceased. Time for them to go OO . |
/u/TheGreatHornedRat
The trucks have limited space, they hit enough business
they either run out of their prepped items and do them
on the fly or have to convolute the limited spacing so
much the entire work space becomes inconvenient to
operate in and those extra seconds of inconvenience per
order start to slam into any kind of cover times.
The other problem is much like a regular restaurant
there are a ton of people who think they can do the job
and run the business without any experience in the food
industry, food trucks are not an exception to this rule. |
/u/Lifesagame81
One thing that seems to be a major contributor here are
menus with too many items and options on it. Do
something interesting, maybe two variants that capture
different preferences, then a couple of side options. Be
good at something and known for something and fast. |
/u/Blue_Bettas
We get food trucks on Wednesday nights in our
neighborhood. There's one that only sells baked
potatoes. Tons of topping choices, but at the end of the
day, it's just giant baked potatoes. The service is
quick because all they are doing is opening up the
already cooked baked potato and putting toppings on it.
You don't have to wait very long to get your food.
There's another food truck that is usually parked in
front of a corner market down the street. They sell hot
dogs and one or two types of bbq meats. Small, simple
menu that makes it really quick to serve the customers. |
/u/AggravatingFlow1178
When I go to a busy food truck, I get told it's slow
because they are busy
When I go to a slow food truck, I get told it's slow
because things aren't prepped.
people who think they can do the job and run the
business
At the end of the day if the excuse to a poorly run
food truck is just "the people that run it are bad at
running food trucks", fair enough I guess. I'll choose
to shop somewhere that is run better. |
/u/workingbored
The purpose of a food truck was to provide cheap and
convenient food. Now it became somewhat like a
restaurant. We forgot the purpose of it. I dont need a
food truck to provide Michelin star quality food. I just
need it to feed me something quickly during my break. |
/u/nalaloveslumpy
If you run out of prepped, you scratch that item off the
menu board. Oh, you have a fixed menu for your food
truck and you're cooking order? You've already fucked
up. |
/u/Modem_Sound_67
exactly. There's a great truck I love to go to when I
can. she makes it very clear what is left and what
isn't. It isn't a huge menu, either. By the end of her
stint most of the menu is gone.
Whatever you order, it's ready to assemble. none of
this standing around for 20-30 minutes like some trucks.
She gets my business, they don't. |
/u/iwantsomecrablegsnow
nearly all the food in a food truck should be pre
prepared. Taco truck should have all precooked proteins
and the only wait would be heating up the
tortilla/assembly.
Food truck is a glorified halal/hotdog/bagel cart and
those serve food within 3 minutes.
Businesses that are deep frying raw wings/chicken from
scratch are doing it incorrectly. Precook that shit in
your rented kitchen and then reheat it on the truck. And
stop fitting a whole restaurant menu in your truck. 10
items or less. |
/u/Komitsuhari
I ran a truck for about a year. Small menu, par cooked
items, cheap prices.
I was busy just about everywhere I ever parked.
After I moved on the next guy to manage the truck
managed to increase menu prices, increase service times,
and add about 8 items to the menu. That truck is now
shut down, they hired a chef who was far too ambitious
for the space and time allotment necessary for a food
truck. |
/u/History-Buff-2222
Food truck menus are too ambitious now. It's supposed to
be for stuff you can make quickly, not gourmet fried
chicken sandwiches with aioli and brioche |
/u/ashgs872tbhjs
That IS stuff you can put together quickly. The fuck?
Aioli is essentially just fancy mayo, you premake
buckets for the week and fridge them. Brioche buns are
going to be BOUGHT premade, it's not a fucking bakery,
and even if it was you'd still premake them. Throw
parcooked chicken in the fryer, slop up a bun, pull
chicken out, done in 30 seconds. |
/u/BigDaddyUKW
Precooked chicken wings are usually better anyway. When
I do them at home, I like to fry them at a lower
temperature first, let them rest a bit, and then fry at
a higher temp to get them extra crispy. Same with fries,
though I might blanch them before frying if I'm feeling
frisky.
10 items or less, for sure, and hopefully those 10
items all share some of the same ingredients to reduce
waste. Even brick and mortars are ridiculous with their
variety. Do you want to be a jack of all trades but
master of none? |
/u/eatingganesha
and their are lots of restaurants who add a food truck
to their business and don't realize they need to change
their food prep process for the truck. |
/u/bingbangboom9977
It's almost like they have a capacity and when they
exceed it they should stop taking new orders. |
/u/Novaer
I went to a metal festival last month and there was ONE
food truck and I waited over an HOUR in line because
they were off buying more products and then took another
half hour getting the ovens and fryers back up. 🫩 |
/u/AdvancedSandwiches
I was watching an episode of The Try Guys where they
start a food truck for a day, and they interviewed some
food truck owners. Some paraphrases:
How long should a customer wait? "15 minutes is OK, but
not 20."
"Customers are fine waiting an hour, but once they
order, they get mad if they have to wait much longer."
Who the hell are these customers that are willing to
wait in line for an hour OR 15 minutes for food? If I'm
at a food truck, I expect like 3 - 5 minutes to heat up
the mostly-pre-prepared food. And obviously
affordability.
If I had a food truck and someone told me I'd need to
spend 10 minutes cooking something after the order,
that's not going on the menu. Are you insane?
Are they massively out of touch, or am I? |
/u/Jumpy_MashedPotato
An HOUR? Outta your mind. At that time scale I can go
find food, food trucks are supposed to be convenient. |
/u/nat_r
Food trucks are now a way for people to open a
restaurant without needing to invest in the cost of a
permanent location. So one truck may still be oriented
towards fast food/fast casual stuff that can be
assembled and sent out in a few minutes. Others are
cooking things to order the way they would in a
restaurant so it may take the same amount of time. The
problem is the industry hasn't done a good job of
adequately preparing customer expectations as things
have changed. If you're in your car yelling your order
into a clown's mouth you have an idea of what to expect.
If you're sitting down in a place with linen tablecloths
and a jacket policy, same thing. Food trucks can be a
crap shoot. |
/u/MikeyTheGuy
yelling your order into a clown's mouth
Don't judge my kinks. |
/u/CatGirl_ToeBeans
That's because it went from very passionate people with
bomb ass foodservice experience who got tired of being
in some kitchen being slaughtered everyday venturing out
on their own
To some fad "money printing" concept that average joes
jump into
I run a FedEx fleet and for the last 3 years every step
van I've sold has become a failed food truck startup by
the average idiot who thinks it's just buy truck and
cook in it |
/u/Either-Hair2438
I agree, there was a 'golden era' of food trucks where
they were seemingly all amazing. Every new trailer was
like an incredible culinary experience at a bargain
price. Sometimes the owner was a former chef at a well
known restaurant so it made sense. When there were long
lines but they moved fast since the menu was limited and
they knew what they were doing.
Then one day I ordered from a new trailer and it took
'forever' and wasn't that great. That experience
gradually became the default and I stopped going to
trailers.
It's crazy to think back on that now, it was just so
different it's almost hard to remember or imagine at
this point. |
/u/n00bn00b
Food truck should be quick or I would've choose to go
inside to sit at a restaurant |
/u/n122333
My company brought in a food truck. Gave us an hour
lunch, then got mad people wanted to eat at their desk
when the food truck took about 45-60minutes to get food
out. |
/u/MrFluffPants1349
Damn, that happened at my job and we just gave folks a
longer lunch. My manager takes feeding folks super
seriously. She always says you dont fuck with people's
food or their money. |
/u/AspieAsshole
They need to have someone sending down the orders 45 min
before lunchtime. |
/u/MrPoopersFriend
I was doing some involuntary work one time, and the taco
truck drove up, opened, and had about 15 people fed in
about 30 minutes. It wasn't the best in the world, but
it was really good. And to top it off, I believe I got 3
tacos for less than $10. This was in 2009. |
/u/billywaterfall
Involuntary work? Slavery? |
/u/proteannomore
Maybe court-ordered community service? |