Did anyone watch the Great Food Truck Race on Food Network?
It was an interesting show. It started with 7 food trucks, each crewed by 3 people. Each food truck served a different menu ... Vietnamese Banh Me sandwiches ... burgers ... French ... buffalo wings and pudding (an odd combination) ... Cajun etc.
Each week, the trucks had to compete in a different location. The host gave them money to restock their kitchens. The crews had to figure out where to get their food and where to sell. They usually had two days to sell. The truck with the highest gross total earned free hotels and travel from Orbitz.com. The losing truck had to leave.
To make things more interesting, the host issued a truck stop challenge at each location. The crew leader had to keep his or her cell phone on because no one knew when the challenge would be issued. At the time of the challenge, each crew had to shut down operations and report to the challenge site.
At one location, they had to clean and fillet a cat fish. The winning truck got to go to sell food at a vintage car rally. The crews of the losing trucks had to stay behind and fillet several hundred pounds of cat fish.
It was an interesting show.
Part of the attraction was the question of whose cuisine would reign supreme. It was also fascinating to watch how each crew marketed their food. At one point, someone from the burger truck boarded a passing tourist bus and got all of the passengers to buy burgers. At another location, the same truck parked outside a bar and sold burgers to passing college students as well as the bar's customers. Luck also played a factor since contestants had to find and choose locations to sell their food.
The first truck out was the buffalo wing and pudding truck. They lost one day of sales when they started the contest with an empty propane tank. Since they couldn't use their deep fryer, all they had to sell were variations on banana pudding.
I wonder whether there will be another food truck race.
It was an interesting show. It started with 7 food trucks, each crewed by 3 people. Each food truck served a different menu ... Vietnamese Banh Me sandwiches ... burgers ... French ... buffalo wings and pudding (an odd combination) ... Cajun etc.
Each week, the trucks had to compete in a different location. The host gave them money to restock their kitchens. The crews had to figure out where to get their food and where to sell. They usually had two days to sell. The truck with the highest gross total earned free hotels and travel from Orbitz.com. The losing truck had to leave.
To make things more interesting, the host issued a truck stop challenge at each location. The crew leader had to keep his or her cell phone on because no one knew when the challenge would be issued. At the time of the challenge, each crew had to shut down operations and report to the challenge site.
At one location, they had to clean and fillet a cat fish. The winning truck got to go to sell food at a vintage car rally. The crews of the losing trucks had to stay behind and fillet several hundred pounds of cat fish.
It was an interesting show.
Part of the attraction was the question of whose cuisine would reign supreme. It was also fascinating to watch how each crew marketed their food. At one point, someone from the burger truck boarded a passing tourist bus and got all of the passengers to buy burgers. At another location, the same truck parked outside a bar and sold burgers to passing college students as well as the bar's customers. Luck also played a factor since contestants had to find and choose locations to sell their food.
The first truck out was the buffalo wing and pudding truck. They lost one day of sales when they started the contest with an empty propane tank. Since they couldn't use their deep fryer, all they had to sell were variations on banana pudding.
I wonder whether there will be another food truck race.