Food Truck Preview
Let's start by looking at the history of Food Trucks.
First, make a new subpage on your Google Site, title it Food Truck Preview.
Click here to learn about Food Trucks: https://prestigefoodtrucks.com/2020/03/history-of-food-trucks-and-how-theyve-shaped-america/
Answer the following questions:
1. How many trucks are there in the US, according to the website?
2. What is considered the first food trucks?
3. Pre-1950, what were two other types of food you might find in the early food trucks?
Find an example of an early food truck, take a screen shot (Shift, Command, 5 and then size it and hit CAPTURE to take a screen shot)
4. What were the three biggest reasons for the "Food Truck Revolution" in 2008?
5. What did the website indicate would be some of the future developments in food truck use?
Now, let's look at what you might need inside of a food truck to make it really go?
Click here to learn what items should be in a food truck: https://blog.clover.com/food-truck-equipment-essentials-every-food-truck-needs/
6. List the top 10 items that every food truck needs to be successful?
Find a photo of your favorite food truck in Austin and share it with me
It's time to start thinking about what you might serve at your food truck:
Check out this site to learn about the top profitable food truck items: https://www.partstown.com/about-us/most-profitable-food-truck-items
7. What similarities do you see in the top-10 items?
8. What are your two favorites?
Find images for your two favorite food truck foods and share it with me.
You will have to come up with a menu of items for your truck, so take a look at this site to get your thinking: https://pos.toasttab.com/blog/on-the-line/how-to-make-a-food-truck-menu
9. What is the importance of categorizing your menu?
10. Besides names of your items, what else will you need to make sure you do so your patrons know what they are eating?
11. Which of the 10 example food truck menu's did you think sounded the best? WHY?
Find a food truck menu image, take a screen shot and share it with me.
Part of this assignment will include coming up with design for the outside of your truck. There are TONS of things you have to think about when it comes to designing your truck, and the following website has a ton of them. I don't expect you to memorize all of these, but steal some ideas that you might want to bring into your truck:
https://pos.toasttab.com/blog/on-the-line/food-truck-design-ideas
12. There are three distinct areas that the website suggests that you focus on, what are those three areas? (these are near the top of the article)
13. List the three design ideas (out of 20) that caught your attention and explain how you might carry out that idea in your food truck.
Finally, you will need to come up with a logo for your truck. There are so many options out there, but this site has a ton of them for you to think about:
https://99designs.com/inspiration/logos/food-truck
14. Pick out your favorite four logos, take screen shots and share them here.
15. Describe why you picked those four logos. Use graphic design terms to explain what caught your attention. Was it color, shape, texture, graphics, what? Explain fully what you liked about these logos (2 sentences minimum).
Now lets have some fun thinking about what your truck might look like digitally.
Download this file, open it in Canvas, and come up with a beginning look for your truck. You will each come up with your own concept and ideas and this first part is the digital part of the project. You will have one class period to complete the next assignment which you will see more of tomorrow.
You can use these files, or you can use the elements button in Canva and search for Food Truck. Please make sure you get a blank version.
Add color, think about a logo, colors, name, menu, menu items, etc.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AGZ_SYXzE2jI7oYKVoEUSvuh6-OFpIs8/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/12PMjumI19Cy8htwtBVVoJ6Df6r0Z1B9o/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/19xrXbL5OomGvAB3nXHu89re3lKiQdPfa/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xhGZBNY9YrDXCaSDYOwQkkuVkkGgRSa-/view?usp=sharing
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