Food truck is a large vehicle equipped to cook and sell food. The food truck that I am temporary working at has its own cooking / grill space where the grilling happens. I am actually just helping my husband with his job, at the same time I am hoping to learn new experience in this bussiness industry. My job while working at this Sailor Burger food truck is just to take orders and to recommend people buying one. These are some of the skills that I had observed which are important to have in communicating with the customers.
You need to have a really good listening skill so that you can efficiently jot down customers’ orders. You also need good concentration while listening and processing their orders.
You need a good memory and an ability to connect with people fast. You also need to know which crazy people you need to listen to and which crazy people you need to ignore.
It is normal to get tired when you are at work. When you are tired, you tend to skip your work. Such as, go to the toilet for almost an hour just to play your addictive games, smoke some cigarattes for an hour. If you want to do that, you need to bear in mind that you need to have tolerancy with other workers too. Do not go out when customers are at peak or else you collegues are going to cover your part. Keep in mind you need to be tolerant with others as well.
Food truck kitchen cleanliness is one of the major factors that affect how customers perceive your mobile food business. If you don’t have a clean food truck the least that might happen is the direct affect to the taste and quality of the food you serve, where the extreme side could provide your customers with food poisoning.
Not only will this affect your sales and reputation, but it can find it’s way into the morale of your food truck employees. No matter what size your food truck’s kitchen is, ensuring that it’s clean can be difficult without setting up an effective schedule.
I hope this post will give you ideas that handling a food truck is definitely not an easy job. It is indeed a tough job. Thank you for reading :)
