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Push Carts
New Amsterdam (now known as New York City) begins regulating street vendors selling food from push carts. -
The push carts gets awareness
Dining cars begin feeding cross country train passengers. -
Charles goodnight
The Chuck wagon is invented by Charles Goodnight to feed cattlemen and wagon trains traversing the old West. -
Horse power
The first diner is setup in a horse-drawn freight wagon. -
Dog Wagons
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”. -
Canteens
The US Army mobile canteens (field kitchens) begin to feed the troops. -
Oscar Mayer
Oscar Mayer rolls out the first portable hot dog cart The Weiner Mobile. -
Ice cream trucks
Ice cream trucks begin selling their frozen treats. -
Roach coaches
Roach coaches make their presence known to construction sites around the country. -
Raul Martinez
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. -
Grease trucks
Grease trucks begin parking on Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ selling “Fat Sandwiches” to college students. -
Street Vendor
The Street Vendor Project creates the Vendy Awards. A competition that identifies and celebrates NYC’s best street food vendors. -
Wikipedia
Wikipedia adds “food truck” to their list of entries including the history of food trucks around the world. -
BBQ
Kogi BBQ hit the streets of Los Angeles selling Asian infused tacos. January 2010 – Southern California Mobile Food Vendors Association (SoCalMFVA) is created, becoming the first organization created to protect the rights of gourmet food truck owners. -
NRA
National Restaurant Association dedicates 1,500 square feet to food truck exhibits at its annual convention in Chicago. -
The Great Food Truck Race
The Great Food Truck Race marks the first television program centered on the mobile food industry. -
Mobile Cuisine
Mobile Cuisine (mobile-cuisine.com) becomes the first website to provide coverage of the mobile food industry nationally. -
US government
The US government adds “Tips for Starting Your Own Street Food Business” to its small business website business.gov. -
LA
Los Angeles starts ranking food trucks with letter grades like restaurants. -
Barack Obama
President Barak Obama “Tweets” that his favorite food truck in Washington DC is D.C. Empanadas. -
Chef
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.
