Today’s food trucks and trailers are no stranger to innovation or creativity. While mobile kitchens were once simple make-shift means of necessary grub on the go, the mobile food industry has helped shift food trucks and trailers onto a whole other imaginative level.
The availability and selection of mobile kitchens have helped advance what hopeful entrepreneurs can do with food trucks and trailers.
The industry has also demanded more creative, out-the-box options- and budding business owners were quick to jump on board.
We’ve seen hundreds of food trucks and trailers in our time, but these five beauties take the cake for us in terms of creativity and inventiveness.
(We’ve seen a whole lot of super cool food trucks though, trust us.)
Five Mobile Food Trucks That Are Seriously Inventive
The Pancake Selfie Express
The creative director for The Holiday Inn Express brand conjured up this insane (but effective!) way of combining yummy food on the go and our love for the selfie all in one.
Sounds a little out to lunch, right?
Well, we love it- and so does everyone else, it seem. The mobile kitchens travels around serving up delicious pancakes with your selfie on top.
These personalized dishes brings food truck and trailer dining to a whole other level, with the engagement element driving long lines outside The Pancake Selfie Express. Customers snap a quick selfie using software built into the truck, which is then sent to a printing device.
Viola- your face on a pancake. Eat up!
The Fair Food Co.
If they’re run properly, food trucks can be quite environmentally friendly.
The Fair Food Co, however, decided to create an even more environmentally friendly option for food on the go. Owners of THB Disturbance and The Hardy Boys created the three wheeled food “tuk tuk” that guzzles quite a bit less gas than traditional counterparts.
The edamame shack aims to provide a much healthier alternative for people who really only do what a snack to tide them over.
They sustainably source the edamame, as well as ensuring their takeout boxes are made of recycled bean pods.
By exploring different alternatives for transportation and waste management, the food mobile industry can become even more environmentally friendly.
Kitchen Of The Unwanted Animals
There’s two cool things about this mobile kitchen.
Their commitment to reducing food waste is nothing short of impressive, with the entire menu built on using the meat from animals that aren’t typically used.
This venture has been the centre of much debate, particularly from
animal rights activists- but the truck maintains that safe and
healthy consumption of these meats (such as pigeon, horse, goose
etc.) plays a notable part in reducing food waste.
Secondly, though- Kitchen Of The Unwanted Animals is built within
a Jeep. A Jeep!
Huffington Post called this mobile food truck- “maybe the craziest
food truck yet.”
The Seattle Barkery
A food truck for dogs- finally! Don’t worry though, everything made and sold in this gem is good for both humans and canines.
Fancy a peanut butter and banana cookie?
If your dog does too, you’re in luck.
These clever owners used the truck for mostly product inventory to be sold, but the “barkery” also houses a small kitchen in the back to conjure up fresh little treats and snacks.
We can’t get over the use of space, though- the food truck operates as a small kitchen, but has really been transformed to house and sell product like a mall kiosk.
Genius.
The FoodShare Truck
Another beauty that used a food truck to effectively transport and sell product, this socially green initiative aims to deliver fresh fruits and veggies to Toronto’s food deserts.
The aim of this truck is to connect areas that are unable to get fresh produce with their 5 servings a day. Typically, the path of transportation for fresh produce runs dry to many Northern communities, as well as areas a little off the map.
The result? Many communities pay insanely inflated prices, or some have no option at all- their diet is doomed to lack fresh fruits and veggies.
It’s a complete retrofit of the original point of a food truck, but the versatility of these mobile kitchens provides an alternative path of transportation for goods that communities are lacking.
The FoodShare Truck is part of the Mobile Good Food Market Initiative, which falls under the Toronto Public Health Project.
Happy As Larry
Fresh pizza? From a food truck?
Yep! 100%. “Happy As Larry” sells fresh pizzas and pies from a converted truck – a truck that hauls a revamped storage container that’s a full Italian-style eatery.
The gigantic wood fire oven required some creativity, and the space of a shipping container provided just that. Their Napoli-style pizzas are known across the entire Australian nation, with the interior of this beauty being an attraction by itself.
In addition to the wood fire oven, “Happy As Larry” house a fully stocked commercial kitchen to serve up
