Running daily in 38 US metro areas
CurbsideDrop takes one short post and turns it into a text to your list, a live pin on your public map page, and finished captions for Instagram and Facebook. The line starts building while your flat top is still coming up to temperature.
1,340 trucks send a drop every service day
Texts land in 38 seconds on average
Set up between lunch and dinner service
The 11:40 scramble
Every mobile operator we talk to describes the same twenty minutes: generator on, cambros loaded, and a phone in a greasy hand trying to write three different posts before the first ticket. Here is what that costs.
A stop that opens to an empty curb still burns the same prep. Forty five minutes of idle labor at two people plus wasted par cook runs about $118 a service, and the tickets you miss between 11:30 and 12:15 are the highest margin ones you sell all day.
About $118 per quiet openNothing kills a repeat customer faster than a wasted lunch break. Operators tell us they used to answer 20 to 30 messages a week that all said the same thing: where are you today. Each of those is a customer who almost gave up.
20 to 30 lost trips a weekThe story says the brewery lot, the page still shows the office park, and the website has last month's permit schedule. Crews average 14 minutes a day rewriting the same information for each app, which is 71 hours a year of unpaid marketing work.
71 hours a year retypingA rain call posted in one place reaches maybe a third of the people who planned their day around you. The other two thirds show up to an empty spot, and about 1 in 5 of them stop checking your feed for good.
1 in 5 followers goes quietA truck is a restaurant that changes its address every day. The kitchen is the easy part. Telling 3,000 people the new address, before the smell of the griddle can do it for you, is the job that never fits in the schedule.
One drop, three channels
A drop is one short broadcast that carries your stop, your hours and your menu. You build it once. CurbsideDrop delivers it to the people who asked to hear from you, refreshes your public map page, and hands you captions you can paste without rewriting a word.
Tap a saved lot from your own corner book. Every entry holds the cross streets, the gate code, the permit number, the power situation and the hours you are cleared to serve, so you are not retyping an address with one hand.
Your board lives in the app. Tap the items running today, mark the two specials, and set anything you are short on. Sold out items grey out the second you flip them, on the map page and in the next text.
One button sends the text to your list, publishes the pin and the hours to your map page, and queues the Instagram and Facebook captions with the corner and the menu already written in. Median time from tap to sent is nine seconds.
The drop report shows how many texts delivered, how many people tapped directions, and which menu line pulled the most taps. By Sunday you know which corners and which items are actually paying for the diesel.
What is in the app
No dashboards you will never open. Six things a mobile operator actually touches between load in and last call.
Save every lot, brewery, office park, commissary slot and festival row you work, with the permit number, the gate code and the hours you are cleared for. Drivers pick a saved corner instead of typing an address into a phone at a red light.
When the birria goes, flip it and the whole network hears. The map page strikes the line, the next text carries the change, and the caption queue rewrites itself so you are not selling something you ran out of at 1:40.
Double opt in at the window with a printed short code card, automatic STOP and HELP handling, and 10DLC brand and campaign registration filed for you so carriers do not throttle your sends. Quiet hours are enforced by default in the recipient's own time zone.
Every truck gets a public page at curbsidedrop.com with today's pin, the hours, the menu and a directions button that opens the phone's own map app. It updates the instant you drop, so office crews can check it at 11:20 and plan lunch around you.
The caption queue builds the Instagram and Facebook post from the same drop: corner, cross streets, hours, today's items and the two specials, in your own house voice. Copy it, add your photo of the tray, and you are done before the first ticket prints.
Weather, a broken fryer, a lot that got double booked: one tap sends a cancellation with the reason and a make good, and pulls the pin off the map page. Trucks that send a rain call keep 3 in 4 of those customers for the next service instead of losing the week.
What changes on the curb
These are medians from 1,340 trucks broadcasting through CurbsideDrop across the 2025 season, measured against their own first thirty days before the switch.
The drop screen holds your saved corners and your live board, so there is nothing to type. Median time from opening the app to a delivered text is nine seconds, which is short enough to do it with the generator running.
Because the text arrives before people decide where to eat, the first queue forms 22 minutes earlier than it did on social posts alone. That pulls tickets into the window when your food is at its best and your crew is fresh.
The median single truck books about $640 more per week. It comes from three places: an earlier rush, fewer dead stops on slow corners, and specials that sell out because 2,900 people heard about them at 11:04 instead of 12:30.
When the map page answers the question, the direct messages stop. Owners report a 71 percent drop in one to one location questions, which gives the person on the window back roughly four hours a week of actual service time.
From the window
Three owners who send a drop before every service, in their own words.
I used to post at 12:20 and wonder why the line hit at 1:00. Now I drop at 10:55 from the commissary and there are people standing at the corner when I set the cones. Last Thursday I sold out of quesatacos by 1:15 and still had an hour of service left for the rest of the board.
Brisket is a commitment you make at four in the morning. If I cook 90 pounds and the lot is dead, that is my whole week. The text list means I know the crowd is coming before I light the pit, and the sold out button keeps people from driving over for something I do not have.
We run two trucks and a trailer on three schedules, and I was the bottleneck for every post. My drivers now send their own drop from the cab and I read one report on Sunday. Our September was the first month we cleared payroll without me doing marketing at midnight.
Plans
Every plan carries the text list, the live map page, the caption queue and the drop report. What changes is how many trucks you run and how many texts you send.
$19 per month
For one truck, cart or trailer with one schedule.
$49 per month
For two to six trucks working different corners on the same day.
$99 per month
For commissary kitchens, festival groups and vendor collectives.
Every plan is billed monthly in US dollars and can be cancelled at any time from the account screen, with no exit fee and no term commitment. Extra texts are 1.1 cents each past your monthly pool, and we email you at 80 percent so nothing surprises you. Prices exclude any sales tax your state applies.
Straight answers
If yours is not here, write to us and a person who has worked a service window will answer.
Single Truck at $19 per month covers one vehicle, 1,500 outgoing texts, your live map page, the caption queue, the drop report and the 10DLC carrier registration that we file and pay for. The only variable cost is text volume past your pool, billed at 1.1 cents per message, and we send a warning email when you cross 80 percent. There is no setup fee, no charge per corner and no charge per menu item. State sales tax rides on top wherever your trucks owe it.
Most owners are sending inside one afternoon. We load your first ten corners and your board from a photo of your menu, print your window cards, and walk one drop with you on the phone. Carrier registration for your text number usually clears in 24 to 72 hours, and until it does you can already publish your map page and your captions. Nothing about the process asks you to close for a day.
You do, without argument. Your subscriber numbers, your corner book and your menu history belong to your business, and you can export all of it to CSV at any hour from the account screen. We never sell, rent or share your list with another vendor, and we do not market to your subscribers ourselves. If you leave, the export stays available for 30 days and then we delete the records.
Yes. We import your item list from Square or Toast so your board matches what actually rings up, and we pull daily sales totals back in so the drop report can tell you which corners paid. Instagram and Facebook are handled through the caption queue, which writes the post and copies it to your clipboard rather than taking over your account. Your map page also feeds your Google Business Profile hours, and there is a plain link you can drop into Linktree or your own site.
Cancel from the account screen in two taps and the plan runs to the end of the month you already paid for. There is no term, no cancellation fee and no phone call to sit through. Seasonal operators use pause instead: your list, corners and menu stay frozen for up to five months at no charge, and your map page shows your return date. When you turn the griddle back on, one tap restores everything exactly as you left it.
A story reaches the people who happen to open the app in the four hours it lives, which for most trucks is 8 to 12 percent of followers. A text reaches the phone in the pocket of somebody deciding what to eat right now, and 97 percent of them are read within three minutes. We are not asking you to leave social behind: the caption queue keeps your feed fed with no extra typing. The text list is simply the channel that puts a body at your window at 11:45.
Get on the schedule
Fifteen minutes on the phone, your corners loaded, your board typed in, and one live drop sent before you hang up.
We answer every request ourselves, usually the same service day and always within one business day. If you are in the middle of a rush when we call, say so and we will call back after close. Nothing here starts a charge, and we do not put you on a mailing list you did not ask for.
A real person reads this, usually between services. Prefer email? Write straight to jimenezjulien42@gmail.com and tell us your corners.
