EVANSVILLE, Ind. – The food industry has faced high demand situations at all grades this year, however, food trucks have taken a bad scenario and have discovered more applicable tactics than ever before.
It will place them in farmers markets, breweries, festivals and food truck events, but they also avoid more in the workplace, venture into residential spaces and offer other plans for diners around the world to get a freshly prepared meal without entering. . a public building.
The Tri-State Snack Shop is a new corporate logo owned by Demetrius and Needra May.
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The May are from the Carbondale, Illinois area. After years of running in the restaurant, Demetrius began frying his special fish recipe at Carbondale parks and events, a cart with ice coolers and a fryer.
After moving to Evansville three years ago, he began turning a trailer into a food truck. The May have normal jobs and it took a few years to put everything in place, however, the snack shop has been on the road since January, dealing with personal occasions or serving on Green River Road and Covert Avenue, or on Maryland Street across from San Jose Avenue.
The May will also offer delivery. That’s right, if you order, they’ll prepare your food or food in the truck, and then one of them will get in the car and take it for a $5 delivery fee. People were satisfied with enjoying the service.
“I learned that the truck was what I was looking to do, so I spent a lot of time and work and I started it,” Demetrius said. “From winter, we have to make ourselves comfortable. We made our call known, and now we’re getting calls from other places that ask us to serve.
Tri-State Snack Shop’s menu focuses on fried bird wings, sheath and merlan (never catfish) in a sweet cornmeal empanada. The fish is very soft and sweet and is rolled in crispy bites, best to immerse it in hot sauce or tartar sauce. A buffalo or nachos dip, cheese fries and homemade desserts make up the selection. The dishes come automatically with a loose water bottle.
May’s purpose is to have a moment truck with a bigger menu.
Visit the Tri-State Snack Shop’s facebook.com/TriStateSnackShopTruck/ Facebook page to find out when and where they serve.
At the other end of the spectrum, the Acropolis is a giant place to eat with a 20-year history and a place-to-eat service famous for feeding giant equipment. However, with indoor food closed or limited and the teams meeting, owners Ellada and Doros Hadjisavva needed a COVID-compliant plan.
They took their cell food kitchen and turned it into a food truck, promoting Greek sandwiches and packaged takeaways in the local subdivisions and the small surroundings of Sebree and Morganfield, Kentucky, in New Harmony, Jasper, Richland City, Princeton and many others about an hour from Evansville. Later in August, the truck will pass to Paducah, Kentukcy. Customers queue everywhere.
“Only the sidewalk wasn’t enough for us, and the truck stored us,” Ellada said. “People had no selection and everything was closed. We started in Henderson because we’ve been living there for 24 years.”
This first was a resounding success.
“People were hungry, but they also got to local shops,” Ellada said. “Everyone knows that restaurants are devastated. It moves me when I talk about it.
Calls began to arrive from others who had not come to Evansville to eat in the Acropolis.
“Someone was talking to me at the store and asked us to go to Richland City,” Ellada said. “I had never heard of Richland, Indiana, and we went there and sold! And they’ve realized how many other people we feed in Jasper. We now have permits to serve in thirteen other counties.”
In the Acropolis truck, you’ll enjoy a variety of gyroscopic sandwiches: original, chicken, fried fish and Philadelphia style. Falafel sandwiches, hummus and Greek salad are offered, and combinations come with a sandwich, fries or Greek pasta salad and a piece of baklava.
Takeaway is replaced weekly, the menu is posted on the Acropolis Facebook site. For example, bourbon bird in mashed potatoes with vegetables, bourbon pepper steak, lemon paste and bird’s hands and children’s fries.
To find out where the next Acropolis truck will be, check out the Facebook page on facebook.com/AcropolisEVV.
The good luck of food trucks has been so wonderful that this year a handful of new trucks cross the roads, able to feed their urbanization. Look for them outdoors and by:
Acai Bar and more, facebook.com/theacaibarandmore/
Hot Diggety Dog, facebook.com/hotdiggitydogjustdogginaround/
Pappa Bear Restoration, facebook.com/pappabearsc Catering /
Random Fill, facebook.com/Random-Fill-Ups-111506623925139/
Rock-A-Burger, facebook.com/rockaburgerfoodtruck/
Sweeney Weenies, facebook.com/hotdogcartempire/
Taco bar, facebook.com/TacoBarEVV/
Topher Street Kitchen, facebook.com/Tophers-Street-Cuisine-113499563782239/
Chick’n Trappin, facebook.com/trappinchicknalday/
For a complete list and description of the 36 food trucks that are active lately in Evansville and Henderson, check out our updated list of food trucks in courierpress.com/story/entertainment/2020/08/08/evansville-and-henderson-food- trucks-here-all ready / 3304722001 /.