Saturday, March 2, 2013

Planning Food cart menus

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Plan Your Food Cart Menu
Street hawkers and sellers of food items are not just ordinary sellers who sell cheap food items. At a reliable food cart in a busy street, one can easily find a menu that gives every customer a reason to feel happy and hungry. Undoubtedly, food carts are the destinations where you get mouth-watering and delicious eatables of your choice. But, planning an effective and delicious food cart menu and serving the best food items can be challenging for food cart owners. If you are a food cart owner, you can surprise your regular customers with a wide variety of eatables. To do so, you will have to ask yourself some genuine questions before filling your cart with a lot of eatables and food items.
Ask yourself:
•About your knowledge on cooking different food items,
•About popular food items within the area where you will sell,
•About ingredients easily available at the nearest retail as well as wholesale markets,
•About foods that can be easily transported from one place to another,
•About foods that you can cook easily, about foods that are cost effective to sell, foods that are not being sold by other mobile food carts and trucks; and
•About the timing of business to open – morning or evening or noon or night or late night.

Additionally, below given is a list of different food items that one can add in his menu: Basic eatables: Sandwiches, wraps, salads, hot dogs, hamburgers, pizza and tacos. Gourmet delights: Lamb and beef specialties, designer potatoes, duck delights, designer creeps, escargot, crème brulee, lobster rolls and shrimp sandwiches Ethnic favorites: Falafels, empanadas, egg rolls, sushi, souvlaki, quesadillas, steamed, dumplings and kebabs. Desserts: Ice cream, cupcakes, donuts, brownies and cookies. Beverages: Soda, coffee, tea, hot chocolate, bottled water, juices and lemonade.

Apart from the menu mentioned above, it will be good for food sellers if they can enrich their menu with popular and dainty recipes from different parts of the world. Make sure, you are the master of the recipe that you serve through your cart - otherwise, things can go against you! When you have a rich and healthy menu to be served through food cart window, you get a genuine reason to make customers feel happy and also boost sales of your food items.