Food Trucks Research Paper

Food trucks have been around for hundreds of years. A food truck is defined as a mobile food service that offers different types of fast foods to walk-up customers. Food trucks, along with portable food kiosks and food carts, are on the front line of the street food industry that serves an estimated 2.5 billion people every day. Mobile food trucks have been around for years, serving construction sites, factories, and other locations. In big cities such as New York, the food truck provides food for on-the-go people to grab a quick bite at a low cost. One specific type of food cart that has evolved over the years is the halal cart. The main reason for the growth of the halal food carts is the growing population of Muslim immigrants in New York City than in the past. Halal food is foods that are permissible for Muslims to eat or drink under the Islamic Shariʻah (law) which include items that come from a supplier that uses halal practices. The slaughter of these animals must be performed by a Muslim and must be slaughtered with a sharp knife by cutting the throat, windpipe and blood vessels in the neck, causing the animal’s death without cutting the …show more content…
Over two decades ago, three Egyptian immigrants- Mohamed Abouelenein from Cairo, and Ahmed Elsaka and Abdelbaset Elsayed, from Alexandria opened a food cart on the southwestern corner of 53rd Street and the Avenue of the Americas. They began serving platters of lamb and chicken slaughtered in accordance with Islamic law, steeped in Middle Eastern spices and striped with a mysterious and mighty white sauce. The main reason the Halal Guys began their street carts was too feed cab drivers, but now over the years they feed anyone that wants to taste their food. The menu of the Halal Guys carts includes “lamb, roasted on a rotating spit and chopped to bits before a final crisping on a flat-top frill; chicken, simply grilled;