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About:  Yolis Street Food is a mobile restaurant that comes from a Latin family (South America).  Yoli’s Street Food is inspired by our grandmother named Yoli.  We want everyone to taste our unique and traditional recipes.  Yolis Street Food will mix our traditional Latin food with American food, to make unique and delicious flavors, which everyone will enjoy. We are using the best meat, pork, ham, cheese, and chicken.  We will also incorporate tropical juices such as mango, pineapple, cantaloupe, and many more.  Our delicious traditional pastries will be made with fresh ingredients.

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About:  Pressed For Time is the second food truck launched by The Food Movement. Based in North Atlanta, The Food Movement was founded to accelerate the adoption of the food truck culture here in Atlanta.

The management of The Food Movement is comprised of three experienced entrepreneurs and foodies.

Greg Gordon was in charge of food and beverage service at the Dunwoody Country Club for 10 years before he started his own catering company: Gordon’s Gourmet. In addition to loving to cook (and being able to deal with type A country club personalities), Greg knows the food business inside and out.

Jack Gerblick is a successful entrepreneur who founded Peachtree Secure Shredding. This mobile shredding business deployed trucks all around Atlanta to satisfy corporate customers in need of flexible document destruction and recycling capabilities. After selling his business to Cintas, Jack was searching for another area in which to apply his extensive knowledge of route-based businesses. Enter The Food Movement.

Paul McKeon is a foodie and magician on the Big Green Egg, his Breville panini press and other assorted cooking gear. As a former Partner at Ketchum, one of the world’s largest public relations agencies and as the current director of The Content Factor, Paul not only spends his time cooking and eating, but developing marketing, branding and social media programs.

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About:  ”CHIK-N-WAFFLES … What are you crazy??? “

That’s what my best friend said to me over drinks in a local pub in South Beach around 2.30 in the morning when I told him that I’m selling everything and taking my grandmothers’ Chik-n-Waffles recipes to the streets of Atlanta on a “Food Truck”. Fact is, Chicken and Waffles crosses every age group and every race. All cultures like fried chicken … from the 101 year-old grandmothers to the 18 year-old hipsters.

Nana G is 101 years old, and she is my grandmother. She has been making Chik-n-Waffles for her family for over 50 years and lives in Orlando, Fl.
Her recipes are very simple from her Belgian style waffles, to marinating her chicken with many secret spices and salt-water & buttermilk for 48 hours for her famous fried chicken. We’ve been so successful because we’re bringing something you couldn’t get before in terms of “Great Street Food”– where else can you get chik-n-waffles served with love … One bite of Nana G’s waffle, chicken & maple syrup and you’ll understand why they call it soul food, as it’s obvious that a lot more than just raw ingredients goes into making it.

So, be on the look out for us stopping into your neighborhood or event near you because you don’t want to miss out on experiencing the soul of our truck!
And eat the best damn chik-n-waffles you’ve ever had in your life…
We are “Serving an American Tradition on a Rolling Kitchen”.

Thank you,

The Hollcroft Family

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About:  Rockin’ Roll Food Truck! Gourmet street food from around the world!

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About:  Rattletrap is the mobile coffee van from Steady Hand Coffee Roasters. They have a brick and mortar, Steady Hand Pour House, located in Emory Village. Catch them in the van or in the shop and be ready for a new coffee experience. Oh, and laughter and a conversation of course!

This has truly been a great week for food trucks in the City of Atlanta.  On Tuesday afternoon, we got the news that the City Council passed a new set of rules pertaining to food trucks in the city by a vote of 15-0. Then on Thursday, we followed up the City Council victory with the unveiling of a new “Street Food Thursday” lot at 12^th and Peachtree St. – the opening of the new lot featured an appearance by the man himself, Atlanta City Councilmember Kwanza Hall (if you haven’t had a chance to thank Kwanza and his staff for their work on this legislation – please consider sending a quick facebook message or tweet their way).

Regarding the new rules for food trucks in Atlanta, it will have an effect on the industry in the following ways:

Multiple Locations:  Prior to the amendment, the city code used singular language when referring to a location of operation; due to that language, the Atlanta Police Department (issuer of city Vendor Licenses) would not permit a truck to operate in multiple locations.  With the new amendments in place, the code now expressly states that mobile food units may be permitted for “multiple locations” – allowing mobile units to be truly mobile.

Reduced Buffer Zone:  In the previous version of the code, mobile units were not allowed to operate within 1,500 feet of a permanent business selling the same or similar products as the mobile unit.  That “buffer zone” is now reduced to just 200 feet.

It is important to recognize that a couple of things have not changed at this point.  (1) Vending on public property within City limits is still a difficult, if not impossible, proposition; it is best to focus your efforts on identifying pieces of private property with strong sales potential and seeking permission from the owner to set up your unit there.  (2) It is still mandatory that potential vendors go through the food service permitting process at Fulton County Environmental Health prior to seeking a vendor license from the City.

Now that this legislation is in place, I expect that the food truck industry will really start to boom in Atlanta.  With all of the exuberance that is on the way – please remember to be a good citizen and good member of the larger community around us.  It is required and expected that new and old vendors will: 1) arrange for and maintain the proper permits, 2) collect and pay sales tax, and 3) leave your vending location cleaner than you found it.

Additionally, I think it is important for our industry to raise the bar and seek to meet the following challenges: 1) collaborate, cooperate, and communicate with local businesses that might be affected by the presence of food trucks, 2) hire locally and pay a decent wage, and 3) whenever possible, find local sources for your ingredients.

Despite the exciting events of the last week, we are not done working over here at ASFC headquarters.  We will be watching to see how the new legislation works in practice – and we will surely be back in the Code seeking to tweak things at some point.  Additionally, we hope to address some of the regulatory issues in other parts of the metro-area.  Finally, and perhaps most importantly, we are working on a number of tracks to address the lack of affordable kitchen space available to food truck operators in the city.

Thank you for your support!

Greg Smith

Atlanta Street Food Coalition

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About:  Buen Provecho started it’s catering business in Atlanta in April 2007. One of our goals was to go mobile and introduce our food to Atlanta and its surrounding areas. This was achieved in July 2011. We are the only authentic Puerto Rican food truck in Georgia, offering home-made recipe dishes and natural tropical drinks. There’s a misconception that all Spanish foods are the same, but this is far from the truth. While the Spanish language has many dialects, so is the preparation of our cooking. All our selections provide richness in flavor that will journey you into our beautiful island. This is a taste of Puerto Rico at your finger tips!