The food truck trend is over, everybody, because here comes the first-ever mobile restaurant inside a trolley car. Former farmer's market stand Tips Tri-Tips has launched a Kickstarter campaign to help fund the Tri-Tips Trolley, a 30-foot-long trolley that will soon become a completely mobile food truck. (While construction is underway, the trolley is currently open and parked outside a coffee shop in downtown Sonoma, California, serving its familiar half-pound tri-tip sandwiches and grilled corn.)
Co-owners Andrew and Susie Pryfogle tell ISSF that to local trolley brokers' knowledge, it's the first trolley-food-truck hybrid in California, and despite the spacious interior, guests will not be able to eat inside: "This will be a traditional food truck in the sense that people won't be able to eat on board, but it is being outfitted right now with an awesome kitchen," Susie Pryfogle says. The Tri-Tips Trolley is seeking $20,000 to help with build-out.
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