No reliable way for customers to find which trucks are open today

Food truck operators post their daily locations across Instagram stories, Twitter, Facebook, their own website, and sometimes a tracker app — but there is no single authoritative source. Apps like StreetFoodFinder, Truckster, and TruckSpotting each cover only a fraction of trucks in any given city, and their data depends on operators manually updating schedules (which they frequently forget or update late). A customer searching for lunch options sees a map full of pins representing trucks that might be there today, or might have been there last Tuesday. The result: customers give up and walk to a known restaurant, and operators lose the spontaneous foot traffic that is the entire value proposition of mobile food. This discovery failure is particularly painful because food trucks already have razor-thin margins (6-9% net), so every lost customer matters. This persists because no platform has achieved enough network density in any single city to become the default — each new app starts with zero trucks and zero customers, and operators won't invest time updating a platform their customers aren't using.