ROCHESTER — Food trucks from all over Minnesota have been flocking to Rochester in recent years. As of May 14, 2024, 54 mobile food unit businesses were licensed through Olmsted County for the 2023-2024 season. With the influx of food trucks, the area has also accumulated a wide variety of cuisine.
There are a plethora of Mexican and taco food trucks, but there is also Mediterranean, Japanese, American and more. There are also chain restaurants with food trucks like the Rochester founded Chick-fil-A Tri-State Food Truck that ventures all across Minnesota, Wisconsin and Iowa. A majority of these trucks are from Rochester, but there are vendors from Byron, Eyota, Lake City and more.
Some food trucks are even making their way from the Twin Cities metro area into Southeast Minnesota. For example, Brick Oven Bus is a food truck out of Eagan that recently devoted an entire truck to servicing Southeast Minnesota. ADVERTISEMENT Why did Paris Rosen, owner of the Brick Oven Bus, want to move into the Rochester area? The city’s brewery scene, Rosen said.
Breweries give food trucks a chance to meet a new audience in an accessible way and hopefully develop that audience into something more. “We're just looking to branch off of that as we plant our roots in Rochester,” Rosen said, adding that might include cooking for different business functions, business parties and more. “(It) takes time to grow that audience and our presence down there.
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