Working document
The Vending Spot Vetting Checklist
Twenty checks across four stages for deciding whether a curb or lot is worth your truck before you commit a season to it.
Free resources
Free Tools and Guides for Food Truck Operators
Practical resources for mobile food vendors: two calculators, a spot vetting checklist, and fair comparisons with the other tools trucks evaluate.
Everything on this page is free and built for someone who takes money at a window. The calculators use your own numbers rather than industry averages, the checklist is a working document you can fill in on a site visit, and the comparisons describe what each option is shaped for rather than telling you which vendor to dislike.
If you are new to the trade, start with the vending spot vetting checklist, because location decides more of your season than the menu does. If you have been running a few years, the vendor fee calculator is the one that changes behavior fastest, since most operators discover they have been taking at least one booking a month that never cleared its own costs.
Free tools
Free Calculators for Food Truck Operators
Two working calculators built for people who take money at a window, one about whether a spot pays and one about how many tickets the window can clear.
Comparisons
How CurbsideDrop Compares to Other Food Truck Tools
CurbsideDrop does one job every service day and the tools below do broader ones, so the right pick depends on whether your gap is finding new customers or telling the ones you have where the truck is parked.
Main guide
Break-Even Math for a Six-Hour Food Truck Lunch Service
It settles what a six hour lunch service actually has to sell before a food truck makes a dollar, with fixed costs, plate cost, and vendor fees stacked in one place.
Magazine
Service Window
Reporting on the working life of American food trucks: permits, propane, plate costs, and the curb you park on.
About
Who writes all of this
A short page on who writes these food truck guides, the service windows and commissary kitchens the advice comes out of, and why the daily curb and menu post is the only job this tool takes on.
The Checklist Picks the Lot, This Fills It
Vetting a brewery slot and telling four hundred regulars you are parked there on Thursdays are two separate jobs. Book a walkthrough and we will show the daily post going out to SMS, the live map pin, and the social captions from one screen. Your menu, your curbs, and no pressure to change anything you already use.