re: Food Truck Round Up

I've been trying to convince one of my friends who just graduated and is floating around trying to figure out what he wants to do to open one of these.

I covered one of the showcases a while back for the Reveille. Here's some links for people interested in more:

Baton Rouge Food Truck Showcase highlights growing mobile restaurant industry (Oct. 7, 2010 via The Daily Reveille

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crowded under the Perkins Road overpass, where more than 200 people formed lines by 7 p.m. to sample the variety of vittles.

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"Our long-term goal is to have multiple trucks in this market," Loftus said. "I'd like to see us have 10 different kinds of trucks within the next 18 or so months."

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"The trailer was a low-cost alternative for people who desperately wanted to have a restaurant," Balon said. "Right now in Austin, out of every 10 restaurant openings, eight of them are trailers. It's really wacky, but I'd bet money that within a year, you'll see fixed-location trailers in Baton Rouge."

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Photos of food

A video on the event

Radio spot about it

I had the Vietnamese crepe from Goyaya's today. It dominated.