If you are a food truck owner, then there are a million different things you have to juggle.
Not only do you have to worry about buying the food, cooking the food and keeping up with the inventory, as well as how much money all of this will cost your business, but you also have to worry about managing employees, social media, digital marketing and everything else it takes to run a successful business. Oh yeah, you probably aren’t getting any days off on top of that (okay, so maybe you get one day off here and there, but you are likely focusing on your truck for a good portion of your time/days).
That is why food truck owners have to get smart and strategic with their time. As a result, they should stop the to-do list act. Instead, they should incorporate the perfect food truck schedule.
Reasons Why Food Truck Owners Should Drop The To-Do List Act And Incorporate A Schedule
- A to-do list can get overwhelming if you are constantly adding new things to the list, and not checking enough off in the process.
- In its simplest form, a to-do list is a list. It doesn’t have dates, and it certainly doesn’t have deadlines. If you want to get serious about your goals and dreams, and stay sane in the process, then you have to learn how to prioritize. How can you do that with no deadlines?
- A to-do list can be very misleading. A single task could take longer than 10 other tasks.
- An all-star schedule should incorporate everything you do during the day. Not only will it include your work on an hour-to-hour basis but your downtime and breaks as well. If you want to be the most successful food truck owner you can possibly be, then you have to get very serious about your time. You should have every hour of the day accounted for. That is how you meet all of your deadlines, which should lead to you being less stressed.
- Simply writing down when your catering gigs and food truck events are is not good enough. What happens if those things don’t take up the entire day? What are you going to do with the rest of your time? To get ahead, you could brainstorm new strategies for your truck, or you could plan on going to your normal location. Whatever you plan on doing with this time, it should be included in your schedule.
- While life holds so much mystery, you shouldn’t just be winging your days. If you want success, then you have to be consistent with your efforts, and you can’t squander your time. A to-do list won’t do the trick for the simple fact that it is not detailed enough.
Drop the to-do list act, food truck owners.
If you plan on climbing to the top of success mountain, if you plan on opening more than one food truck during this lifetime (assuming that is a goal of yours) and if you plan on eventually opening up a sit-down restaurant, then you have to get very serious with your time, and you can start that process off by creating a schedule that incorporates everything!
If you are looking for more food truck advice, then make sure to check out the three articles below (previews included).
How Future Food Truck Owners Can Ensure Success In The Mobile Kitchen Industry
You’ve heard it once and you’ll likely hear it over and over again: Being a food truck owner is not easy. However, if you are really serious about being a mobile kitchen owner, and if you really want to jump into this industry and succeed, then you will.”
In no way is this industry for the faint of heart (owning a business in general isn’t), but if you are willing to live and breathe your food truck business, and if you are a great cook on top of that, then don’t be surprised when you are actually making it as a lunch truck owner.”
3 Social Media Networks That All New Food Truck Owners Need To Be On
If you thought you were just going to buy a food truck and cook food all day, then, well, you are terribly mistaken. Yes, that is going to be your main job — there’s no doubt about it — but you will have so many other duties on top of that when you finally break into the food truck industry.”
For example, you are going to have to train — and manage — your employees. You will also have to set up catering gigs, and negotiate deals with prospective clients as a result. You will also have to run a business, because you are, in fact, running a business. Operating a kitchen might be the most important ingredient, if you will, but mobile kitchen owners have an endless amount of tasks and duties.”
The No. 1 Reason Why Food Truck Businesses Fail
There are an endless amount of reasons why someone would want to enter the food truck industry. Unfortunately, there are just as many reasons why food truck businesses fail.”
You might want to enter this fine industry because you have always wanted to be a chef, or because you have always wanted to own your own business, or because you see this industry as a great business opportunity, or because you think the food truck industry will lead to you opening up a sit-down restaurant, or everything above and in between.
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