mobile food history
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Updated: 17 May 2019
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Created byMohammad Sattari
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Sausage vendors sell their wares outside the student dorms at major eastern universities (Yale, Harvard, Princeton, and Cornell), and their carts became known as “dog wagons”.The US Army mobile canteens (field kitchens) begin to feed the troops.Oscar Mayer rolls out the first portable hot dog cart The Weiner Mobile.Raul Martinez converted an old ice cream truck into the nation’s first taco truck and parked it outside of an East Los Angeles bar.Wikipedia adds “food truck” to their list of entries including the history of food trucks around the world.Kogi BBQ hit the streets of Los Angeles selling Asian infused tacos.Southern California Mobile Food Vendors Association (SoCalMFVA) is created, becoming the first organization created to protect the rights of gourmet food truck owners.National Restaurant Association dedicates 1,500 square feet to food truck exhibits at its annual convention in Chicago.The Great Food Truck Race marks the first television program centered on the mobile food industry.Mobile Cuisine (mobile-cuisine.com) becomes the first website to provide coverage of the mobile food industry nationallyThe US government adds “Tips for Starting Your Own Street Food Business” to its small business website business.gov.The prestigious Zagat guide announces that in 2011 they will begin to provide reviews of food trucks.Los Angeles starts ranking food trucks with letter grades like restaurants.President Barak Obama “Tweets” that his favorite food truck in Washington DC is D.C. Empanadas.NY issues the first limited liquor license to the Pera Food Truck.The Gap launches a nationwide ad campaign marketing a retro style jean with the use of a food truck.Food Trucks serves NFL Superbowl Fans in Indianapolis. Street food has been available to Americans for several hundred years, and food trucks have been serving up tasty treats for over two decades, so the basic concept is nothing new. Yet, as you can see, the food truck has taken on new meaning as the mobile food industry continues to morph.The National Food Truck Association is formed creating the first national association of food truck associations.The movie “Chef” is released. This Jon Favreau movie’s plot is centered around a chef who loses his restaurant job starts up a food truck in an effort to reclaim his creative promise, while piecing back together his family.New Amsterdam (now known as New York City) begins regulating street vendors selling food from push carts.The Chuck wagon is invented by Charles Goodnight to feed cattlemen and wagon trains traversing the old West. (copy)The first diner is setup in a horse-drawn freight wagon.Periods
Dining cars begin feeding cross country train passengers.Ice cream trucks begin selling their frozen treats.Roach coaches make their presence known to construction sites around the country.Grease trucks begin parking on Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ selling “Fat Sandwiches” to college students.The Street Vendor Project creates the Vendy Awards. A competition that identifies and celebrates NYC’s best street food vendors.
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