Tag: Dinges

The Treats Truck, which has sold cookies and brownies for four years during lunchtime at West 45th Street near Avenue of the Americas, has been told by police officers that it is no longer welcome there, nor at its late-afternoon 38th Street and Fifth Avenue location.

More and more cities are adopting trucks – but the function of the truck is evolving, too!

Seventeen of the city's top gourmet vendors who feed foodies across the city's parks will be showing off their culinary prowess during Wednesday's "Taste of Parks" event at Central Park's Arsenal.

About a dozen gourmet food trucks will be converging on Grand Army Plaza once a month beginning Sunday for a “Food Truck Rally.”

The taxicab-yellow Wafels and Dinges truck, which has trolled the streets since 2007, has become a mainstay.

FOOD TRUCKS may be riding the Twitter-crazed foodie wave, but their design hasn't yet caught up.

It should come as no surprise that New York's gourmet food trucks have gone from being on culinary rebels on the fringe of the restaurant industry to taking an active part in the legislative process.

Thomas DeGeest is trying. In 2006, the native of Belgium chucked an engineering career at IBM to start Wafels & Dinges, selling topping-laden Belgian waffles and other gourmet desserts out of a truck downtown. He now has five vehicles and nearly 25 employees.

In New York, fast food restaurants with drive-up windows are eclipsed by fast food trucks with walk-up windows.

As licenses expire, the Parks Department is slowly replacing some of the roughly 55 hot dog carts in and around Central Park with "specialty food carts" — a new breed of vendors who often offer gourmet treats that are devoutly chronicled by foodie blogs such as Midtown Lunch and New York Street Food.