SYRACUSE, N.Y. (NCC News) – The Syracuse Fall Food Truck Festival is packed with many looking to try all kinds of foods. The festival provides an opportunity for local food truck brands to increase their business.
Toss and Fire Pizza employee Catherine Samara believes the event is beneficial for everyone.
“It’s really good for us, but I’d say it’s good for everyone, like all around,” Samara said. “We get our name out there, but so do the 50 other trucks that are here. So, it’s nice, a lot of people come through.”
Samara said Toss and Fire is expected to fill between 500 and 800 orders during the festival. Other food trucks said they will have success as well. Byblos Street Grill food truck owner and Syracuse Food Truck Association Committee member Larry Pankow said he expects this to be one of their busiest days of the year.
“So on a typical day in one of these events that we do here at the Sate Fair we will probably do around a thousand orders, 1,000 tickets,” Pankow said. “It’s a 12-hour event so it’s about 100 tickets an hour. Do the math.”
Pankow said the truck is expected to make about “7,500 bucks”, which he says is much more than what they make on a normal day. Both Toss and Fire and Byblos have been coming to the festival since it started in 2019. Pankow echoed a similar sentiment as Samara.
“Oh this is a huge brand builder,” Pankow said. “When you can get all these eyeballs on your logo and get them to come out and try your different foods and see what the Syracuse Food Truck Association represents… it’s big melting pot and it’s also good for the community.”
Pankow said that between 15 to 20,000 people were on hand today for some food, fun and even a little bit of Rock n’ Roll.
