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5 Best Apps For Finding Food Trucks
May 8, 2014

For anyone who considers themselves a foodie, knowing where to find the best food trucks is an essential part of daily life. And thanks to advancements in technology, it has become easier than ever for someone to keep abreast of where to find the best food trucks. There are now a variety of apps available that can help the discerning foodie find food trucks.
These apps can prove to be essential to everyone who likes eating at food trucks, whether they consider themselves a foodie or not. In recent years, food trucks have massively grown in popularity in urban areas. So most people who live in major cities have eaten at food trucks. Here are five useful apps for finding food trucks.
One: Roaming Hunger
Roaming Hunger is one of the most popular food truck apps. And for good reason, it’s a comprehensive app that provides food truck locations in most major cities. The app provides real time food truck locations, and the user can sort by meal or vendor to find the perfect food truck for any given moment.
Two: TruxMap
TruxMap allows the user to be able to find new food trucks as well as keeping track of more established ones. It covers mainly Austin, Texas and Los Angeles, California but it also covers other big cities. TruxMap tracks food truck activity by accessing their twitter feeds.
Three: SeattleFoodTruck.com
SeattleFoodTruck.com is geared specifically towards Seattle residents or people visiting Seattle. But the benefits of using an app so localized, is that the results are sure to be more comprehensive and indicative of what the city actually offers. The SeattleFoodTruck.com app claims that they have intimate and in-depth knowledge of the Seattle food truck scene, and can let the user know about any last minute happenings or events.
Four: Street Food App
The Street Food app is accurately named and is geared towards street food lovers in Canada. Vancouver, in particular, has a reputation for having enticingly delicious street food and the Street Food app is essential for anyone in Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, etc.
It can succinctly let the user know how many food trucks are open in the city today and what time they are open until. This useful app also offers descriptions of local street food and helps the user get intimate tips about the locals and what to expect.
Five: Truckily
Truckily is a catchy name for another app that helps locate food trucks. But in this case, the app is geared towards food truck owners, to help them with marketing their business towards people who are fans. Food truck owners who use the app can send out their locations to multiple social media accounts, and alert “fans” who are signed up to the Truckily app that their favorite food truck is nearby.
This app benefits both the consumer and the business owner. The food trucks can reach a new audience of people, and the consumers can stay updated on when their favorite food truck is nearby. The app works for any city, and seems like a useful marketing tool for food trucks, particularly ones that are just getting started.
Wealth Of Apps Dedicated To Food Trucks
There are now a wealth of apps geared towards locating food trucks. With the average city dweller being exposed to a greater number of cuisines, interest in street food has exploded. People now want to have instant access to their favorite foods, and to be able to eat it on the street in a communal setting.
Part of the reason food trucks are so popular is the atmosphere of eating food on the street. Popular food trucks have gathered loyal followings, who will follow the food truck, and now it’s easier than ever with the help of a multitude of apps.