Lol. The food truck business work day is much longer than 2 hours. The 2-3 hour lunch period is the primary window, but many trucks also do a dinner service f

Lol. The food truck business work day is much longer than 2 hours. The 2-3 hour lunch period is the primary window, but many trucks also do a dinner service for 2-3 hours. In addition to the service window, there's several hours at the start of the day dedicating to stocking the truck and prepping the food so that it simply needs to be cooked. At the end of the day, leftovers must be disposed and all of the equipment must be cleaned. Both prep and cleanup will take several hours: prep will usually take 3-4 hours, and cleanup will 2-3 hours. On top of that, there's the transportation time for getting from home base to the day's location(s). In L.A., most trucks operate out of a San Fernando lot, which means 1-2 hours transit time to get to their lunch spot. All told, the employees may get 8 hour shifts, by the truck managers and owners will be lucky if they work fewer than 12 hours a day. Sources: http://clatl.com/atlanta/a-day-in-the-life-of-an-atlanta-food-truck-mixd-up/Content?oid=5484599 http://clatl.com/atlanta/a-day-in-the-life-of-an-atlanta-foo... http://www.findlafoodtrucks.com/blog/tag/nom-nom-truck/ http://www.findlafoodtrucks.com/blog/tag/nom-nom-truck/ http://www.sacramentopress.com/headline/6599/Food_trucks_A_day_in_the_life http://www.sacramentopress.com/headline/6599/Food_trucks_A_d... http://mobile-cuisine.com/business/breaking-into-the-food-truck-industry-%E2%80%93-part-4/ http://mobile-cuisine.com/business/breaking-into-the-food-tr... Komodo, one of the grandaddies of the modern food truck industry, used to have a great post on this but it appears that they have deleted that post.