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Sep 2024
26m 28s

So you want to run a food truck?

Bbc World Service
About this episode

Fancy starting a food truck? It can be a way to trial new food concepts and see if your business has potential before committing to a restaurant premises.

In this programme Ruth Alexander finds out what its really like running a food truck or van.

She meets customers queuing for over an hour for the SpudBros van in Preston, North West England, where brothers Harley and Jacob Nelson have drummed up business for their jacket potatoes on social media. Ruth speaks to Anna Brand who runs a vegan food van Vege Bang Bang in Auckland New Zealand, and sisters Natalie and Samantha Mwedekeli who started Mama Rocks, a food van selling gourmet burgers in Nairobi, Kenya in 2015. Today they have five premises and its time to sell the van that started it all. And Karan Malik talks about his food van SuperSuckers in Delhi, India. He saw the trend take off, but tells Ruth why he decided to get out of the business. If you'd like to contact the programme email thefoodchain@bbc.co.uk.

Presented by Ruth Alexander. Produced by Beatrice Pickup. Research by Henry Liston. (Image: Brothers Jacob and Harley Nelson in their food van selling jacket potatoes in Preston North West England. Credit: BBC)

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