Food Trucks, Share The Lane. Food Bikes Are Merging Into The Business.
When upscale food trucks roared into popularity a few years ago, the folks running them praised their rolling operations as far cheaper and simpler to launch than a bricks-and-mortar restaurant.
Now, entrepreneurs are finding similar advantages in food bikes.
Brewers, chefs, baristas and even farmers are turning to pedal-powered vehicles to bring their goods to consumers — and, sometimes, actually produce them on the street.
Charlie Wicker of Trailhead Coffee Roasters makes all of his deliveries within the 6-mile radius of urban Portland, Ore., on one of his custom-built cargo bikes. He can also pull over to brew and serve coffee.
John Lee/Courtesy of Trailhead Coffee Roasters
Worksman Cycles makes trikes for food vending and for general deliveries. Most of its customers are independent businesses, but some are larger national chains like gourmet food purveyor Harry and David, whose food bike is pictured above.
Courtesy of Worksman Cycles
Curbside Creamery’s Tori Wentworth dishes out free samples at a recent First Friday event held in Oakland’s Temescal Alley.
Jenny Oh/KQED Bay Area Bites
Bicycle Coffee serves its brews at the Grand Lake Farmers Market in Oakland, Calif.
Courtesy of John Romankiewicz
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