There's not an exact methodology behind doing this, but some of these tips back here may help you understand why you should have a minimal amount and what you should actually have. Take a look at the board and figure out what we've got going on to get you successful with your food truck. I'm the founder and CEO of Marketing Food Online. When you're in a food truck, it's much different, especially if you've got one, two, or even three people on top of yourself. That's going to be a big problem because of the amount of space that you have available, so take it into consideration.

How long does it actually take to make the product that you want to sell? Next up, margin and which is the most profitable? If you're going to create and make a freshly made product, make sure you stick with one niche. Don't create products that obviously do not coincide with each other, or you'd have to have numerous amounts of ingredients to produce just a few different items. Even though the idea sounds good that you might attract a lot of different people, stick to one type of food product and do it well.

Now, there are a lot of food trucks. You can appeal to a wide variety of people, and you can make an enormous number of tacos, soft tacos, burritos, whatever it may be, but in line with that type of niche product. Having the ability to produce a product or a variety of products with only a minimal amount of ingredients is a great idea. Next up, how fast? Keeping them in and out is the key to profitability.

If a product takes much longer to make, even if it's fantastic, you're not going to have a lot of people standing in line. So, you want to make sure that you can turn over the product fast and quickly. The average food truck menu consists of between five and 10 items. If you can operate your food truck on a minimal skeleton crew but do not sacrifice customer service or the quality of the product, you are going to make some serious money. The more people you have, the more payroll and the less space you're going to have for ingredients.

Keep in mind that if you can do it with one or two of you, fantastic. If it takes four to five of you - it's not going to be very profitable.