{"id":371,"date":"2018-04-18T02:49:39","date_gmt":"2018-04-18T02:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/2018\/04\/18\/2018417from-acai-bowls-to-baked-potatoes-how-food-trucks-came-to-campus\/"},"modified":"2020-09-05T19:44:55","modified_gmt":"2020-09-05T19:44:55","slug":"2018417from-acai-bowls-to-baked-potatoes-how-food-trucks-came-to-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/2018\/04\/18\/2018417from-acai-bowls-to-baked-potatoes-how-food-trucks-came-to-campus\/","title":{"rendered":"From acai bowls to baked potatoes: how food trucks came to campus"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Grace Manthey<\/strong><\/p>\n

As a freshman in Quinnipiac University\u2019s Student Government Association, Camilla Abreu noticed one of the biggest complaints from students was the food on campus.<\/p>\n

Then a professor told her about a food truck festival he went to every year and Abreu formed an idea: Get food trucks on campus.<\/p>\n

But it wasn\u2019t easy at first.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a lot harder than you think because they need a permit to get on campus and they need to sign all these documents and they need to go through so many people on campus to make sure that they have all the right documents and stuff like that,\u201d Abreu said.<\/p>\n

And it wasn\u2019t just the paperwork that was a pain. Abreu said sometimes if the weather wasn\u2019t nice the trucks wouldn\u2019t show up.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not just like, a thing you can just drop by and do, because at some schools it is like that \u2026 But here, like it\u2019s more regulated with public safety and everything,\u201d she said.  <\/p>\n

Once the food truck owner knew the effort Abreu and her fellow students were putting in to get the food trucks on campus, they became a lot more reliable.<\/p>\n

\u201c(The food truck owners) realized that we went out of our way to let people know that they\u2019re coming on campus and that they\u2019re here for the students, and students are expecting them at a certain time. They realized that it was like a bigger, more serious thing,\u201d Abreu said.<\/p>\n

Senior Mikaela Canning and junior Tyler Culp were in charge of booking the food trucks for the Wake The Giant concert. They said sometimes getting in contact with the owners is hard, but if they don\u2019t hear from them after a time, they look for another truck.<\/p>\n

And luckily for students, at some events they don\u2019t even have to pay the trucks for the food. It\u2019s called a \u201cbuyout.\u201d SPB gives the food truck owners an estimate of how many people will be at the event, then the food truck owners tell SPB members how much to pay.<\/p>\n

According to Culp, for Wake The Giant, \u201cwe bought out 150 (potatoes from the Spuds truck) for this previous concert and were given a set amount that we had pay for it.\u201d Once the truck ran out of the 150 potatoes, they stopped selling.<\/p>\n

And while the logistics can be kind of complicated, Canning said one of her favorite food trucks is, in fact, the Spuds truck.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s always so happy to work for us if he\u2019s available and if he\u2019s busy he\u2019ll do his best to fit us in, he\u2019s also very personable. He also works with his dad who is also just as great,\u201d Canning said.<\/p>\n

Even though Abreu she\u2019s not in SGA anymore, as a senior she sees the growth of her hard work.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was such a struggle, like calling 50 food truck places and only having like, three actually wanting to come on campus. It\u2019s really cool that now it\u2019s a thing that happens all the time.\u201d<\/p>\n

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