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Good Karma Kitchen is regularly parked at Clearfork Food Park in Fort Worth with about five other food trucks. MacMicken said they chose a food truck over a restaurant mainly for the personal attention they can give their customers. The women support and hope to encourage a healthy lifestyle to their customers by serving strictly gluten-free and vegan meals

The "First Impression" is a carne asada sandwich on sourdough bread with carne asada meat, Monterrey Jack cheese, avocado and bell peppers. The meat is very tender with a mild spiciness. This sandwich is very filling, which you might’ve guessed from the menu, which uses descriptions such as “generous” and "loaded with.”

2013 is shaping up to be another tumultuous period of growth for the city's mobile eatery scene. Some food truck happenings since the first of the year

Those who love the special appeal of "grills on wheels" will be relieved to know, however, that the truck is simply hibernating during a winter sabbatical and will return in late February or early March as the weather improves.

I ran across a newish food truck this week, Bento Box. They are primarily a Fort Worth truck, but I found them in Dallas for a special event.

Fort Worth is expected to vote on a new ordinance Tuesday covering the rapidly growing food truck market.

Let’s start in Dallas, where food trucks that serve inside city limits are required to park overnight at a place called a commissary. They restock food here and a commissary employee gives each truck a hardcore scrubbing. It also helps the city keep track of them because it must remain there that night.

Park operators plan to be open for lunch and dinner, seven days a week with six to eight trucks on weekdays and the ability to support up to 12 for special events.

There have been approximately 85 gourmet trucks that have rolled, somewhere in the Metroplex

Food trucks are all required to park at a commissary overnight, where they're thoroughly scrubbed down and cleaned—and can dispose of their waste properly and safely—but the city of Fort Worth merely requires trucks to visit a commissary once a day, and some of the mobile eateries aren't even doing that.