Food (Trucks) for Thought: Back in the Saddle Again

Ok so where to begin…how about: We are very sorry for not blogging in...like...FOREVER! Our bad! :( What a long strange trip it’s been, but we want to say thanks to all of our fans for sticking by us…so THANK YOU!!!

We are thrilled to be approaching our 1 year anniversary in April! (Pinching ourselves!) 2011 was a great year for us at Rickshaw Stop as we grew our small business quite a bit over the last few months and have learned so much! We did some big events last year and are planning even more this year as well as adding additional lunch shifts/locations. The best part is that we are engaged with all our customers and even making a few friends along the way! :-)

Wow, last July huh? So let’s do a quick recap:

The Food Truck Thrown Down in July was totally awesome and very, very hot. Meagan and I each lost about 10 lbs in 3 days working that event, crazy! The Octo-Beer Feast was another success and we are planning on doing similar events again in 2012 at Boardwalk on Bulverde (BoB.) We’ve been on TV twice - Thank you, Jeff Vaughn! Plus we've been the food truck for 2 more Ranger Creek Open Houses. Nowadays we drive there instead of getting towed because we had a brand new engine put into our chrome beauty…courtesy of Cruising Kitchens!

350 with RV cam and Edlebrock carb and intake. ;-) Queue manly Tim Allen sounds…

We also worked the Accessibility Fair at Morgan’s Wonderland which was an awesome event for charity. Events at the JW Marriott Hill Country Resort & Spa have been a lot of fun; they are so creative with corporate parties! We parked in Southtown for a couple First Fridays; we might do that again later this year. We worked a couple of the first USTA home football games and we even helped save a kitty that was a stray at BoB:

Meet um, well... "Bob" ;-)

In 2011, San Antonio food trucks also raised awareness about the restrictive city policies that limit where we can park and serve our fine fiddles. Our hopes are that in 2012 Mayor Castro and the city will work with us to help loosen the laws like they've done in Austin. We are already seeing 2012 as “The Year of the Food Truck” in San Antonio. One clue that the year is starting off right is that as I type there is a little Pakistani food truck that was named the best restaurant in ALL of SA, TX! Big thanks to all of our Yelp fans! Keep on bookmarking, checking in and sharing your reviews!