Food truck operators to brainstorm in Portland
A new conference is designed to meet the information needs of mobile food vendors hungry for segment-specific knowledge.
September 3, 2013
Food truck owners are typically cast as renegade operators who’ve taken an idiosyncratic approach to the restaurant business. But promoters of the new Roam Mobile Food Conference 2013 think these fiercely independent restaurateurs are nevertheless eager to learn best practices from their mobile food segment peers. That’s why Roam is presenting the industry’s first mobile food-specific conference later this month, set for Sept. 14-16 in Portland, OR.
Why go? The latest estimate from Emergent Research, who partnered with Intuit for its study, predicts that mobile food will be a $2.7 billion segment by 2017. The previous estimate, just one year old: $650 million. Roam’s backers say those already doing business in this segment, or those looking to get into it, will find plenty of educational opportunities—including menu and concept development, profit and sales improvement, marketing and more—that will help them capture their share of this growth.
Here are the five educational tracks Roam will present.
1. Innovations in mobile vending.