Downtown's First Food Truck Rally A Success

June 11, 2012 25 comments Open printer friendly version of this article Print Article

This past weekend, thousands swarmed downtown Jacksonville to attend the Jax Truckies presented by Metrojacksonville.com gourmet food truck rally to stamp out hunger at Burrito Gallery. Benefitting Second Harvest Food Bank. This demonstration project proved that food trucks can be a cost effective economic benefit for existing businesses and generating additional foot traffic on downtown's streets. Today, scenes from the rally to stamp out hunger.



“This is a one-day event to bring attention to Downtown and to familiarize others about how food trucks can contribute to the fabric of our community,” said organizer Mike Field.  Adding, “These innovative entrepreneurs want to inject some flavor into Jacksonville’s neighborhoods, and downtown certainly needs the help."



For example, with some truck wait lines of over an hour adjacent to Burrito Gallery, long lines flocked to the brick and mortar establishment resulting in a significant increase in sales.  In addition to Burrito Gallery, others in the crowd took the opportunity of their trip to downtown to visit places like the main public library, Chamblin's Uptown and the Jacksonville Landing.











This was absolutely, unequivocally, EPIC. To see Jacksonville support the food truck "scene" as hardcore as they did today, gives so much more incentive and motivation to have our truck done ASAP! Waiting on the bank now, for the loan, and then we'll be having M&R Trailers build our "dream" truck! So many thanks, and so many congratulations to all involved. Y'all are rockstars, and are ALWAYS going to be welcome at our window!
The Smoked Meat Militia Food Truck











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