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Canada·36d ago
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Food Truck POS Systems
Problem Existing POS systems (Square, Lightspeed, Moneris) are built for brick-and-mortar restaurants and ignore food-truck realities — patchy LTE at outdoor venues, queue displays for festival crowds, CRA GST/HST reporting across provincial borders, end-of-day cash-vs-Interac reconciliation across multiple stops, and the per-municipality mobile-vendor permit rules that differ between Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary and Montreal. Most operators duct-tape Square + Excel + Instagram. Who feels it Roughly 2,200+ active food trucks across Canada (concentrated in Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal, Calgary, Ottawa) — a C$310M 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, Moneris/Square Reader Interac + tap-to-pay, daily GST/HST/PST reports broken out by province, and a public 'where's the truck today' page auto-updated from one-tap GPS, pushed to Instagram + Facebook in both English and French. Why now Post-pandemic food-truck count has doubled in major Canadian cities; cashless adoption hit 87% in 2025; and CRA's expanded gig-economy reporting starting 2026 forces accurate per-location revenue tracking. Revenue C$59/mo per truck, with C$25/mo add-ons for multi-truck fleet management, customer SMS-when-ready notifications, and a Canadian street-food festival lead-gen marketplace. Average Canadian food truck does C$3-C$8K weekly, so C$59/mo is well below pain threshold.