How The Modern Food Truck Came To Be

We like infographics and we love food trucks, so here’s a snazzy food truck infographic from Mashable Infographics. It charts the evolution of the food truck industry since it started integrating social media into its marketing arsenal.

Like any good infographic, you get tasty tidbits of interesting information, like a common street food buzzword is ‘lavendar’. Only American data is used, yet it’s still clear that the recent food truck craze has a lot to do with more creative food offerings enhanced by clever usage of social media.

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