Food basket is a mobile kitchen set up on the street to facilitate the sales and marketing of street food to people from local pedestrian traffic. Food carts are often found in major cities around the world and can be found selling almost all food varieties.
Food carts have two basic styles. One allows the seller to sit or stand inside and serve food through the window. Others use all the space inside the cart for storage and to house the cooking machine, usually some kind of grilling surface. The cart style is determined primarily by the type of food served on the cart.
The food carts are different from the food trucks because they are not traveling with their own power. Some food carts are pulled by other vehicles, while some alternatives are driven by humans or animals.
Portland City in the US, Oregon, is well known as home to many "pod" food outlets. This food cart group can have several options, or reach the entire city block. Some of the most popular food cart pods offer a large selection of craft beers.
Video Food cart
Histori
The first food carts were probably formed during the days of ancient Greek and Roman civilization with traders converting old carts and small carts drawn by animals into mobile trading units. Carts have their own advantages because they can be moved if a location is unproductive in sales, as well as transporting goods to/from storage to the place chosen for trading.
However, the use of carts exploded with the arrival of trains. First, very mobile customers need food and drink to keep them warm in the early open carriages. Secondly, locomotives need to stop regularly to pick up coal and water, and thus allow their passengers to use toilets, eat and drink. Third, some early trains have a buffet form or a dining car. Finally, when passengers arrive at their destination, or at a point when they need to change trains or modes of transportation, it needs refreshing, especially for poorer passengers who can not afford to stay in a hotel owned by a train. This expansion leads to a mutually beneficial relationship with some of the first concession stands and the growing law of a cellular trader operating from a limited railway property. This form of concession-based operations can be seen still in many countries, but at the most original under the stations and infrastructure developed in Africa and Southeast Asia.
The train also brings another benefit: a fairly large inventory of new wagons. Often traders who need a new cart will only buy an old railway station cart and customize it to serve food, knowing that it is sized/adjusted to be installed between the door and the elevator required.
Currently the size and scale of trains generally increases, and most are pulled behind 4x4 vehicles. But hand wheelbarrows are still common sites where access is restricted and hungry people can be found.
Maps Food cart
Modern food carts
In the 21st century, innovations have incorporated modular designed carts made of stainless steel, fiber-reinforced plastics, and aluminum. Some have been developed with the ability to be driven by themselves.
Some of the food carts were associated with the restaurant. Most of the food served from the cart was the same as the food in the restaurant.
Portland food basket
In the United States, the city of Portland, Oregon, has experienced an explosion in the number of food carts, trailers, and stands.
A 2001 report on The Oregonian says Portland is home to 175 carts, with fierce competition for four available cart spaces since 1987 in the South Park Block. The bidding war of February 2001 resulted in a combined price of $ 192,000 for the spaces. There is also a large cluster, often referred to as a cart food cart, on Fifth and Stark street, and one food cart has been running since 1980. In 2010 it is estimated there are between 450 and 671 carts throughout the city. Cartopia is another food basket pod located at the corner of SE 12th Avenue and Hawthorne Boulevard in Southeast Portland. One of these Portland food carts includes The Grilled Cheese Grill.
See also
- The food stand
- Newsstand
- List of food trucks
- List of street food
- Mobile catering
- Serving the basket
- Taco Shop
References
External links
- "In an underground economy sustaining a food cart in New York City" by Jeff Koyen,
New York Crain , June 12, 2016
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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