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If you want your food truck idea to become a successful business, you must learn about your target market before diving in headfirst. You need to do some research before you take over any street corner or otherwise risk wasting time and money.
No matter how much you think your food truck or restaurant idea is going to appeal to everyone, it needs to fit into the lifestyle of the people that will be in the areas you’ll park. They will be your customers, and without a good grasp of their habits and preferences, you can’t put together a menu that will sell.
Sometimes, food truck entrepreneurs will begin with a menu or type of cuisine. The task of market research then is to find a place where people will love those foods. This means finding an area or an event where people have an unfulfilled appetite for the food you want to offer. You don’t want to be in an area where all the restaurants serve your type of cuisine, or it’ll be hard for you to get noticed and stand out. Likewise, if what you’re serving is not what people are crying out for, they probably won’t come looking for your food truck either.
It will often be easier to identify a place that will be a good fit for a food truck and then figure out what food the local people will crave. Take a walk through the neighborhoods you’ll be parking in and take note of what’s on offer. Pay attention to which shops are doing well and which aren’t, and how many restaurants there are for every type of cuisine. You should also pay attention to the people themselves; watch their body language as they walk by, or try talking to them and asking them questions. By building your menu around the information you gather, you’ll be able to develop a menu that is tailored to the neighborhood, one that will attract people in and make them happy they made an effort to come.
The next step in researching your target market is to create a profile of them. Don’t just let the ideas float around inside your head. Write them down. Create a document that details who your ideal customers are, where they are, their current eating habits and preferences, and what menu items you can make to fit their tastes. Share this information with people you trust to get honest feedback. Adopt their suggestions to make the profile even more accurate, and refine it until you know precisely what your future customers are looking for and who will love your food.
The more research you can collect before committing resources into starting any food truck business, the easier it will be to design and execute your plan for success. Taking shortcuts in market research will only increase the likelihood that you’ll fail.
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