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New Amsterdam (now known as New York City) begins regulating street vendors selling food from push carts.
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Dining cars begin feeding cross country train passengers.
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The Chuck wagon is invented by Charles Goodnight to feed cattlemen and wagon trains traversing the old West.
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The first diner is setup in a horse-drawn freight wagon.
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Sausage vendors sell their wares outside the student dorms at major eastern universities (Yale, Harvard, Princeton, and Cornell), and their carts became known as “dog wagons”.
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The US Army mobile canteens (field kitchens) begin to feed the troops.
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Oscar Mayer rolls out the first portable hot dog cart The Weiner Mobile.
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Ice cream trucks begin selling their frozen treats.
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Roach coaches make their presence known to construction sites around the country.
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Raul Martinez converted an old ice cream truck into the nation’s first taco truck and parked it outside of an East Los Angeles bar.
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Grease trucks begin parking on Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ selling “Fat Sandwiches” to college students.
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The Street Vendor Project creates the Vendy Awards. A competition that identifies and celebrates NYC’s best street food vendors.
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Wikipedia adds “food truck” to their list of entries including the history of food trucks around the world.
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Kogi BBQ hit the streets of Los Angeles selling Asian infused tacos. January 2010 – Southern California Mobile Food Vendors Association (SoCalMFVA) is created, becoming the first organization created to protect the rights of gourmet food truck owners.
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National Restaurant Association dedicates 1,500 square feet to food truck exhibits at its annual convention in Chicago.
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The Great Food Truck Race marks the first television program centered on the mobile food industry.
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Mobile Cuisine (mobile-cuisine.com) becomes the first website to provide coverage of the mobile food industry nationally.
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The US government adds “Tips for Starting Your Own Street Food Business” to its small business website business.gov.
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Los Angeles starts ranking food trucks with letter grades like restaurants.
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President Barak Obama “Tweets” that his favorite food truck in Washington DC is D.C. Empanadas.
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The movie “Chef” is released. This Jon Favreau movie’s plot is centered around a chef who loses his restaurant job starts up a food truck in an effort to reclaim his creative promise, while piecing back together his family.
