Get Your Just Desserts.

Yes, I'm a big dreamer. I haven't even bought my first truck ("Parrot Cage"-Caribbean/Southern fusion) yet and I'm already planning my second truck. My second truck will be called "Just Desserts" (notice the double meaning) and that  is what we will serve. I just wonder if such a truck would be able to get away with serving breakfast pastries in the morning (donuts, Kolaches, Danish, etc). I mean, I know I can sell whatever I want on my truck, but I want the fare to match the truck theme. What do you think?

Let us know how you do if you decide to do that.
 
One of my daughters has been talking about opening up a pastry/cake decorating/catering business from her home.  Socorro will not allow that. We know because we ran into that while we were getting permitted the first AND second times. Our current "mailing address" is her home address and the city immediately told us both times that it wasn't zoned for a business to operate out of. So we have stuck the idea of a mobile kitchen to work out of in her head. It would give her more flexibility (cater on site and in the middle of nowhere... lots of nowhere around here). She fell in love with a BBQ catering truck that our auctioneer has on craigslist which is too much for her (size and price) and lots of the wrong equipment for what she wants to do. She would have a great deal of difficulty getting a 35 ft mobile kitchen in/out of her back yard. We know this because  OUR 40 ft skoolie is currently sitting in her back yard and we are going to have a hard time backing that thing out when it comes time to move it.(see pics! great price and looked to be in good shape when we were in it but too big for her http://albuquerque.craigs...g/bfs/2395768873.html) With a mobile unit, she can park it in the campground and tell the city that it is stored there on commercial property (same thing we did). HD will allow campground sewer drains to be used (her plumbing system will not hold up to it). I think the town she is in is too small to make enough $$ for her to live on. We need to sit her down and get her to decide on what she really wants to do and to understand what she will need to do for certain things (like any deep frying needs a grease disposal, etc). Her boyfriend  thinks she should open a donut shop because there is no place for him to get decent donuts in this town. I won't post what we think of the boyfriend's thoughts. This is a guy who has no clue about anything regarding the food business. I do think we have her sold on the mobile kitchen ("if you decide to move, you can take your business with you"... "you can't have your college student tenants mucking about in your commercial kitchen"..."you can't let your dog have access to your commercial kitchen").

There is a cupcake truck here in Los Angeles.  I've seen it more than once so it must work.
 
People like their desserts.
 
Good luck.

Atlanta has a cupcake truck called Yum Yum Cupcakes. She started out in a trailer and now has a truck. During the summer we do shaved ice, ice cream desserts, and some baked goods. We have been working a cool weather menu for late fall and early spring. We purchased a new sandwich press that we could easily prepare a breakfast food item. Even though about adding an expresso machine. At many of the festival we attend they do not address the morning time especially for the other vendors. We already have a commercial Bunn pour over unit.
 
We have also adapted a Tropical Theme for our summer operation and may carry it over to the Fall and Spring. Cubans, Black Beans and Rice, and Plantain Chips.

I like the Island/ Southern Fusion thang.
Being in your neck of the woods, coffee and donuts for truckers that arrive to brokers offices and then the tater barns to load. Us, we where not tater haulers. Hauled fish oil to NB for the fish meal plants.
 
Hell we where in a Cafe in Houlton and ordered Breakfast. They did not have spuds for hashbrowns. Of all things in Maine- no taters. 30 plus years since and we still laugh.
 
 

did i hear cubans ???  
i love me a good cuban now....
 
heres a "recipe" for the most authentic cubans you can make.....lol, apparently there is a lot of controversy over "proper" cubans 
what are you planning on for bread ?? im looking for a local baker in hopes of getting as close to authentic as possible...
 
and i love the idea of the "midnight cubans", and it even gives a recipe for authentic cuban roasted pork....
http://icuban.com/food/cuban_sandwich.html