Food Trucks
Configure mobile store locations — food trucks and pop-up shops linked to Fleet-Ops vehicles for live GPS positioning, with multi-catalog assignment.
Food Trucks
Storefront supports mobile stores — food trucks, pop-up shops, and any merchant whose location changes day to day. A FoodTruck is its own entity that links a store to a Fleet-Ops Vehicle for live GPS positioning, and to one or more Catalogs for menu management.
Navigate to Storefront → Food Trucks to manage mobile stores.
How Food Trucks Work
A FoodTruck record links:
- A Store — set automatically from the active store
- A Vehicle — from Fleet-Ops Resources, providing the live GPS position
- One or more Catalogs — assigned via a separate workflow on the food truck card
- An optional Service Area or Zone — restricts where the truck accepts orders
- A Status —
activeorinactive
When a customer places an order, the truck's position from the Fleet-Ops vehicle telemetry is used as the pickup point.
Creating a Food Truck
Make sure the correct store is selected via the store switcher — the food truck will be created against the active store.
Ensure the vehicle that represents the food truck exists in Fleet-Ops → Resources → Vehicles.
Navigate to Storefront → Food Trucks.
Click New Food Truck.
Select the Vehicle from Fleet-Ops that represents the physical truck.
Optionally assign a Service Area or Zone to restrict where the truck accepts orders.
Set Status (active or inactive).
Click Save.
Assigning Catalogs to a Food Truck
Catalog assignment is a separate step from creation — a single truck can serve multiple catalogs and a single catalog can be assigned to multiple trucks (the relationship is many-to-many polymorphic via the catalog_subjects pivot).
On the food trucks list, find the truck card and click the Catalogs button.
Pick one or more existing catalogs to assign.
Save.
To create a catalog first, see Catalogs.
Real-Time Location Updates
The food truck's position in the customer-facing app comes directly from the Fleet-Ops vehicle's GPS telemetry. As the vehicle moves, the truck's position updates automatically — no manual location entry required.
Operating Hours for Food Trucks
Set hours on the catalog (CatalogHour per day-of-week) to define when each menu is active. If the truck moves to a new neighborhood, update its zone assignment if you use zone-based delivery restrictions.