How to Start and Run Your Own Food Truck Business in Georgia

By A. K. Wingler

With good jobs so hard to find, especially in rapidly expanding Georgia, owning your own food truck could be the best option. It’s the least-expensive start-up, and you can be fully operational in mere months. The rules and regulations can be a bit complex, and no single source has offered all the answers—until now. How to Start and Run Your Own Food Truck Business in Georgia is the step-by-step guide that takes you from good idea to great success. Sure, it’s hard work, but exciting, mobile, flexible, and highly profitable—and you get to be your own boss and set your own hours. This book tells you how and where to make money in this exploding independent industry. Even if you’re just curious for now, this guide is the best way to discover if a food-truck business is right for you.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Fresh Ink Group
• Release date: Oct 1, 2022
• ISBN: 9781947893689

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Introduction

Hey there! Thinking about opening a Food Truck business in Georgia? That’s a great idea, the food truck business here is booming! Are you willing to work hard and long hours? Do you want to stay localized or travel around the state? We’re sure you have many questions about how and where to start; I know we did. We had so many questions about policies and procedures and couldn’t find all the answers in one place; when we finally found our answers, we decided to write a guidebook to make it easier for others. Our first book was geared toward Florida, then we thought, why not other states? So, we’re here to share our experience and know-how to get you legalized, up and running in Georgia, and answer a lot of your questions.

Let us first tell you who we are and what we were doing. We are Bob and Andrea and we owned and operated Andebo’s Mobile Kitchen doing business as Andebo’s Italian Style Hot Dogs in Florida. Why do we have two names? We’ll explain later in Chapter Seven. We catered lunches at a construction site and also took part in various evening events around the Orlando area. There are several ways to make money in this business, as you will see going along.

One of the first things you should do is visit various food trucks, sample the foods, and ask questions, most food truck operators are happy to tell you some things about the business. Take note of the appearance of the trucks and the interior if possible. Is it clean, do they have tables for customer use, what is their menu like, etc. Definitely check out menus; keep in mind the more products offered, the larger the inventory they have to stock. Food truck menus should be simple and quick, customers don’t always like to wait in line to order then wait again while you prepare something that takes a while to cook. Always give good customer service, making people smile is half the fun, and keeps them coming back!

Honestly, be prepared to work ten to twelve hours in a day and sometimes more. It’s not just pulling up to a venue, opening up and selling, that’s only half the work. There’s pre-stocking and prep time before departure, arriving at the venue two or more hours early, selling for four to five hours or longer, a quick clean up at the end as most venues want you to leave shortly after closing, then a further clean up back at your storage place. For large event venues like State Fairs, the hours are even longer, but it can pay well. Here’s how to do it!

Chapter One

The Menu

Once you have a good idea of what food trucks are all about, you should get an idea of what you want to sell. Are you known for a particular specialty? Do you have a favorite state recipe for peaches or pecans, or a popular regional barbeque favorite? The ideas are limitless! As we said