What is mobile food cart?

A food cart is a mobile kitchen set up on the street to prepare and sell street food to passers-by. Food carts are often found in cities worldwide selling food of every kind.

Food carts come in two basic styles. One allows the vendor to sit or stand inside and serve food through a window. In the other, the vendor stands next to the cart, while all the room in the cart is used for storage and to house the cooking machinery, usually a grilling surface. The cart style is determined principally by the type of food.

Food carts come in two basic styles. One allows vendors to sit or stand inside, serving food through a window. On the other hand, stand next to carts, in which all the space is used for storage and placement of cooking machinery, usually grilling surfaces. The cart style depends on the type of food.  

Food carts are different from mobile food truck because they do not travel under their own power. Some food carts are pulled by another car, while others are pushed by people or animals.  

The first food carts probably came into being at the time of the early Greek and Roman civilizations with traders converting old hand-carts and smaller animal-drawn carts into mobile trading units. Carts have the distinct advantage of mobility, should a location not be productive in sales, as well as for transporting goods to/from storage to the marketplace.

However, with the arrival of the railways, the use of handcarts exploded. Firstly, highly mobile customers required food and drink to keep them warm within the early open carriages. Second, the locomotives need to stop regularly to fetch coal and water, allowing passengers to go to the toilet, eat and drink. Thirdly, few early trains had any form of buffet or dining car.  Finally, refreshments are needed when passengers do arrive at their destination, or when they need to change trains or transport, especially for poor passengers who cannot afford to stay in railway hotels. Food truck manufacturers business is a great way for entrepreneurs to build a brand serving food they love and achieve their financial freedom.

The railroad brought another benefit: a plentiful supply of new suitably sized carts. Merchants who need new carts will often simply buy old train station luggage carts and adapt them to serve food, knowing that these carts will fit in size/scale between between the necessary doors and lifts. 

Today Mobile street food trailers not only offer employment oppoturnities and multi-cluture cusine but also present a part of urban culture. So Hanyi Machinery aims to offer any type of custom food carts, mobile food truck, specialty food trailer and wheeled mobile restaurant.