10 Menu Ideas for New Food Truck Owners

Creating a food truck menu can be overwhelming. Which type of food should you offer, and what should you skip? The menu offers a perfect balance of unique dishes and old favorites that match its concept. 

Make sure your menu items are easy to prepare. Unless you plan to compete with local fine dining establishments (and really, what food truck can?), You need to be able to prepare menu items quickly.

Any menu item that takes abnormally long to cook or prepare can bog down the line at your service window during a race. Use ingredients in more than one plate to keep food spoilage to a minimum and to stretch your budget. 

For example, if you offer various proteins for a sandwich or wrap, try offering other items that may include those same proteins. Assemble the core group of menu items you want to serve.

Being realistic about how many items you will be able to serve from the limited space in your truck will help you determine how many menu items you start with. 

Every item on your menu should be affordable to customers but at a price to keep your profits up. Expensive ingredients result in high-priced menus. Additionally, balancing expensive items, which are prone to price fluctuations, with items that have stable costs can help you maintain your desired menu prices. 

A long-term menu board would say the name of your truck and what you do. For example, “Daddy’s Grilled Cheese Truck.” State clearly what you do and who you are, leaving nothing to the imagination. No one is going to come to Daddy’s grilled cheese truck, expecting to eat butter chicken. The key thing to remember with long-term menu boards is that you will probably never change them unless you are rebranding or changing the concept entirely. Plates

The plates of interchangeable menu are an excellent choice for a truck that has a menu that is updated frequently. Seasonality is a huge thing these days, and being able to meet that demand is powerful for a small local business.

Interchangeable boards come in a variety of sizes and types. Some of them are digital and displayed on a menu screen. Others use plastic letters that can be attached and removed, or you can use a chalkboard if you are able to write the menu carefully. Changeable menu panels offer less menu rigidity and allow you to adjust prices, specials, and keep up with trends and try new things.

Boards of printed menus are reasonably common with food trucks because they are a cost – effective and simple way to display the menu. They are best for food trucks that don’t change menu options on a daily basis, but can still be a reasonable option for those that change seasons.

Once your food truck has a great menu design and laminator, it can be easy to keep the menu clear and attractive. It also doesn’t cost much to print new menus. Printed menus and interchangeable menu boards are the most common and easy to use for food trucks. As long as the layout and fonts are clear and visually appealing, you can’t go wrong.

In this article we have gathered ten types of food menu for new food truck owners to gain more customers. 

Have a look! 

Breakfast Bowls

If your food truck is going to serve breakfast, then you need to start thinking about some unique breakfast bowl concepts. 

You can make a variety of homemade French fries, egg, meat, cheese, salsa, black beans, sour cream, and many other healthy ingredients. These bowls are hearty and easy to make, and people love them for the variety they offer. You can customize your breakfast bowls with your unique ingredients.

Biscuit & Sausage Gravy

A food truck is never complete without cookies and gravy. To make things easier for you, you can buy pre-cooked cookies and serve cookies; You can even buy the pre-made sausage sauce. 

Burritos

This is another food truck fee that is easy to do and also crowded. You can offer plain egg and a western omelet and then meat protein, salsa, sour cream, black beans, and rice if desired. You just need to roll and wrap in foil and cut in half and serve. This food is also cheap to make.

Sweet Potato, Caramelized Onion, Brown Sugar

These are a great breakfast item that can be turned into a lunch item. You can add black beans and serve it as a vegetarian taco. It is healthy and delicious.

Fruit Glasses or Yogurt Ice Cream

You should not stop serving fruit in your truck because many people expect to have some type of fruit every day. This menu can be as simple as a mixed fruit salad in a single cup with a lid and a fork that is dropped through the slot in the straw. You can layer vanilla yogurt and granola with the fruit and get paid for it.

Waffle Tacos

Waffle blocks are easy to make and serve. You can make the waffles ahead of time and keep them on the steam table. Then cook the bacon ahead of time, sausage patties, and pork roll. Use a triple mix of grated cheese to coat the egg. Then you need to make the eggs on the flat top, fold them and place them in a pan on the steam table.

 When ordering a waffle block, simply pull a waffle, put the meat and egg on top, sprinkle with the cheese, and set on the flat top griddle with a dome for a minute. When the cheese is melted, fold and place the finished waffle in a takeout container or boat. You can accompany it with garnishes such as maple syrup, salsa, sour cream, and jellies.

Meat Gyro

This meal consists of beef, tzatziki, tomato, onion, and French fries rolled inside pita. It’s usually made to be smooth and tender so you can taste olive oil. This is a delicious meal for meat lovers who don’t care about their sauce.

Bamwich

This is a combination of beef and lamb. It is a kind of sharwama wrapped in pita with romaine lettuce, roma tomato, red onion, tzatziki, red feta sauce and tahini. Shaved, the meat tastes like marinated in garlic, yogurt, and vinegar, making it spicy and tangy.

Crack Chips

These are delicious fried flour tortilla chips, or chips made with any other type of flour. These chips are basically sandwiches that you can serve with a sauce to go with it. While the fries can be simple, you can make the fries with your sauce.

Mini Meatloaf

Mini meat pies are delicious filling and inexpensive to make. You must master the art of baking these little snacks to perfection in order to create stable customers from them. You should make the pocket meats rich in sauce and the dough as smooth as possible.

In A Nutshell…

We have looked at 10 types of food but this is only the tip of the iceberg. Think pastries, ice cream, smoothies, waffles, natural juices, noodles, soups, chicken, fried fish, or simply a cafeteria. 

The most important thing is that you like what you are going to cook and that you be very original when presenting it. Share your opinion, what kind of food do you prefer when you go to a food truck event.