Gourmet Food Truck Competition Vendor Benefits
- View the 2017 event map to see where trucks are stationed.
- View a continually updating list of trucks participating in this year’s competition.
- Learn how to vote for the People’s Choice winner this year.
- Download our mobile app to have all event details, trucks, menus and more at your fingertips.
- An event map will be posted as the competition approaches to see where trucks will be stationed
- Are you a food truck vendor who wants to compete? Download the 2017 Food Truck Vendor Application.
- Electricity will be provided to the food truck vendors by the Springfield Rotary Club and bulk ice will be available for food truck vendors to purchase.
Be selected
- Applications will be open until up to 38 Food Trucks are accepted. Download and submit the 2017 Food Truck Vendor Application.
Be recognized
- Springfield Rotary will issue news releases to promote the event and its participants
- Submitted feature stories on Food Truck Vendors in various publications
- Published event listing in local and regional publications
- Published food truck profiles featured on the event website, Facebook and Twitter.
Be successful
- Vendors retain 100 percent of their sales
- More than 10,000 attendees
- $17,000 in prizes including a $10,000 grand prize to the winning food truck.
- Proceeds of the event support various Rotary projects including Services to People with Disabilities, Polio Plus (the worldwide eradication of Polio) and the International Project in Lesotho.
Be there!
- Download and submit the 2017 Food Truck Vendor Application to enter your food truck in the competition.
- Interested in sponsoring the event? 2017 sponsorship opportunities coming soon.
How Judging Works:
- The winner of the $10,000 grand prize for Best Food Truck Cuisine, the $5,000 Runner Up and $2,000 Third Place truck will be decided by a panel of five local celebrity judges and at least five roving anonymous volunteer judges.
- The celebrity judges will base their scores on a combination of factors including: Flavor/Taste, Presentation/Visual Appeal and Creativity/Originality.
- The anonymous judges will provide scores for Best Truck/Cart Design, Best Customer Service/Friendliness/Hospitatlity and Best Menu Variety/Value/Originality that will be added to the food judges’ scores of taste, presentation and creativity to determine the first through third place winners.
- A “People’s Choice” award winner will also be determined by attendee votes the day of the competition. Attendees will be limited to one vote per mobile device for their favorite food truck.
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What a lovely idea. This is very exciting
I like this as well. I want to purchase something from Kinetic, they seem very similar to the cuisine in Yellow Springs, Ohio.
Georgette, we need to get you up to Columbus sometime!
I am the cofounder of Kinetic and what you said makes me SO excited. There is another big food truck festival in Columbus on the same day as this event so we will try to be at both places if we can OR we will just have to get you up to Columbus at some other point in the summer!
Hoping to see you soon,
Andrew
We had a fabulous time! I hope this becomes a yearly (if not more often) event. We loved the variety of vendors and the foods they brought. Excellent way to showcase great local food and businesses. Suggestion: Maybe next year invite the craft brew folks too?
Awsomeness!