When the Who originally rhapsodized of the wonders of "going mobile," few may have thought "play the tape machine, make the toast and tea" would eventually mean music blasting from the speakers of your local food truck.
Nor did those of us who passed through puberty in an earlier age have dreamed that those once familiar low-budget hot dog and ice cream vendor denizens of beaches and parks would today include top-line culinary feasts on wheels. Although trucks may still tour summer neighborhoods tinkling those bells or playing silly songs to draw kids to their ice cream and popsicles, downtown their more sophisticated brethren are blasting tunes to draw grown-up kids to sushi, BBQ or tapas.
These full-blown restaurants on wheels often require extensive and expensive food preparation facilities and equipment. Needless to say, the cash flow of the more adult offerings also can differ significantly from the relatively small change neighborhood popsicle-mobile.
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