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United States·35d ago
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Food Truck POS Systems
Problem Existing POS systems (Square, Toast, Clover, Lightspeed) are built for brick-and-mortar restaurants and ignore food-truck pains — spotty LTE at outdoor venues, queue displays for festival crowds, end-of-day cash reconciliation across three different lunch spots, daily location tracking for customers, and the per-city mobile-vendor permit maze (LA, Austin, Portland and NYC each have completely different rules). Most operators stitch together Square + Google Sheets + Instagram. Who feels it Roughly 24,000+ food trucks operating across the US, concentrated in California, Texas, New York, Florida and Washington — a $1.4B industry growing 7% YoY post-2024. MVP hint A single mobile app handling offline-first orders with auto-sync, customer-facing queue display on a tablet, Stripe/Square Reader tap-to-pay, daily revenue + 50-state tax reports by location, and a public 'where's the truck today' page auto-updated from one-tap GPS, cross-posted to Instagram and Twitter. Why now Post-pandemic food-truck count has doubled in major metros; cashless adoption hit 78% in 2025; and the IRS's expanded 1099-K reporting threshold for 2026 forces every truck into accurate per-location revenue tracking. Revenue $49/mo per truck, with $19/mo add-ons for multi-truck fleet management, customer SMS-when-ready notifications, and a US food-truck festival lead-gen marketplace. Average US food truck does $3K-$8K weekly revenue, so $49/mo is well below pain threshold.