WHERE DID THE ROACH COACH COME FROM?

How did the modern food truck evolve? Well we all remember the ice cream truck when we were a kid right? Then there’s always been the worker lunch truck, often fondly called the Roach Coach. And in the Latin community the taco truck has been around forever. I remember my friend writing about getting a cow brain taco from a truck sometime early in the mad cow scare.

Anyway, the modern food truck is more of a Toyota Prius now vs. the old diesel VW rabbit. It’s sleek, brightly colored, highly marketed and a great place to catch up with friends. We are big fans over here at Zeno Supper Club, so we decided to put together a guide so you can have your next meal come to you vs. you driving around LA in search of a some good grub. The bonus: It won’t break your bank.

I’ll be researching more about the food trucks evolution soon, but this is a good start right? Read what Wiki has to say about he Food Truck

A food truck, mobile kitchen is a mobile venue that sells food. Some, including ice cream trucks, sell mostly frozen or prepackaged food; others are more like restaurants-on-wheels. Some may cater to specific meals, such as the breakfast truck, lunch truck or lunch wagon, and snack truck or break truck.

Food trucks cater events (carnivals, construction sites, sporting events etc.) where potential customers gather, and places of regular work or study (college campuses, office complexes, industrial parks, auto repair shops, movie sets, military bases, etc.) where potential customers require regular meals or snacks. Some can boast loyal followings.

In the United Kingdom, these are known as snack vans and can be found on nearly all major trunk roads at the side of the road selling their food. A 1/4lb burger can be purchased for about £2 (approx. $3.5USD). Many people prefer to stop at one of these Burger vans when travelling due to the cheap price, rather than stop at a motorway service station where prices can be extremely high. In anglophone Canada, they are known as Coffee trucks. In the US, they may whimsically be called ‘roach coaches’.

An early version of the food truck was military field kitchen – for example the US Army’s mobile canteen [1]; another predecessor in the United States was the old West’s chuckwagon.

In 2009, a growing trend was seen in the way street vendors or food trucks businesses in cities across the United States began to implement Twitter to “tweet” their location, or inform customers of their location.^[1]