Starting your own food truck from the menu up

In addition, they have to do all this with limited resources, limited staff, and limited space. For this reason, modern POS technology has stepped up to fill the gaps naturally created with food truck operations.

This page details several food truck business ideas that make the most significant impact on food trucks, including:

Payment options
Inventory management
Additional food truck features

Menu options

When customers walk up to your food truck, the first thing they want to know is “what’s on the menu?” This information essentially informs their decision to eat there or somewhere else. Unfortunately, this is a challenge; a mobile operation often does not have a good delivery method for menus. In addition, large tableaus can be challenging to read, and holding a physical menu (among all your other things) while in line is cumbersome.

Digital menus pose a possible solution to this problem, but they pose a problem themselves; how do you get your customers there? Typing in a web address and waiting for the pdf to download takes time; often, more time than customers are willing to wait.

POS technology seeks to address the flaws in digital menus by increasing their accessibility and functionality. These options include:

In some cases, it may be helpful to have several of these options available at once. For example, a customer scans a QR code to access their online menu. However, they quickly realize that they have questions about the items included. They then go up to the counter and speak with one of the employees there, who addresses their concerns. They then guide them through the process using the kiosk mode.

Whatever configuration your business decides to use, these tools are essential for a food truck operation. Offering instant access to menus and ordering keeps lines and orders moving.

Mobile Payment Options

When it comes time to make payments, food trucks need the tools necessary to meet customer preferences. Modern customers have changed significantly in recent decades; whereas cash made up most payments in decades past, current customers almost universally preferred digital payment methods. This means that modern businesses must adjust to those methods to stay relevant.

This is a more difficult task than it appears on its face; taking cards requires an active merchant service provider that can tackle various payment methods. While this requires typically setting up through a credit card processor, modern POS technology alleviates the manual labor involved using: