Food Truck Challenge

This deliciously exciting culinary team building event will set your team on course for a culinary adventure. Beyond all the positive energy and fun, this is a great way to promote friendly competition and employee bonding.

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Why this event?

The history of the food truck dates back centuries – back to a time when humans hadn’t yet invented motorized transport. But that didn’t stop us from falling in love with the idea of fun, portable food. Today, the food truck has taken on a starring role in the American street food revolution. So naturally, we wanted to tap into this momentum to help build stronger teams.

In this engaging team building activity, your group gets to prepare a wide range of delectable food truck fare. But as any mobile chef knows, there’s more to the food truck game than just food. So each team will also be creating their own food truck façade, complete with brand name and logo.

If you know TeamBonding at all, you realize we’re always looking for smart ways to add an element of friendly competition to our events. This one’s no exception – teams will be judged on taste and presentation, but also on the creative spark behind their name, logo and truck decoration. This provides plenty of opportunities for participants to get involved, from cutting, slicing and dicing to branding and marketing. Yum.

Choose from options like:

Grilled Cheese Sandwiches
Tacos with all the Fixings
Kebabs
Lobster Rolls
Hot Dogs
Meatballs
Mac & Cheese
Belgian Waffles
Whoopie Pies

Participants enthusiastically showcase their creative food truck setup during a 'Food Truck Challenge' team building event. A team member stands under a handcrafted food truck façade, proudly presenting plates of tacos.

A colorful, handmade food truck façade created for the 'Food Truck Challenge' team building event. The bright yellow design features cut-out images of fruits and vegetables, along with slogans like 'Good to the Last Chop'. The creative display emphasizes a healthy, veggie-focused theme, highlighting the event's blend of culinary skills and artistic expression.

A participant at the 'Food Truck Challenge' is preparing a dish. Wearing an apron and gloves, he focuses on mixing ingredients in a large bowl. Behind him, other participants are also engaged in their culinary tasks, surrounded by fresh ingredients

An imaginative 'food truck' display titled 'King Cannoli' is set up as part of a team building event. The mock food truck is constructed with a cardboard facade, and the colors of the Italian flag decorating the upper edge. This creative setup reflects the team's effort to embody an Italian pastry theme for the 'Food Truck Challenge'.

A creative cardboard cutout display titled 'Rickshaw Rollz'. The display is cleverly designed to mimic a food truck in the shape of a rickshaw, emphasizing the theme of Asian-inspired street food.

The image shows a participant carefully preparing and plating small tacos as part of a team building food truck challenge. The individual uses gloves for food safety while arranging the tacos neatly on a table covered with a white cloth. Each taco is garnished with a drizzle of sauce, and the participant holds a small plate with additional garnishes, ready to add the finishing touches.

A large tray filled with mini hot dogs, each neatly placed in a small bun. The hot dogs are arranged in rows, making them easy to serve at a food truck challenge team building event.

The image depicts a participant actively engaged in a cooking activity she is wearing a clear apron and gloves, demonstrating a focus on hygiene and food safety. She appears to be stirring a sizzling dish in a wok placed on a portable stove. The setting suggests a hands-on, interactive environment where participants are tasked with preparing meals, emphasizing teamwork, creativity, and culinary skills.

The image showcases a creative and colorful food truck facade crafted for a team building event, focusing on a Greek food theme. The food truck, labeled

A creative food truck facade designed for a team building challenge. This truck is named

Team size

25 - 150

Time needed

90 Minutes to 2 hours

Space requirement

This event works well either indoors or out. You’ll want plenty of open space – ideally, around 100 sq ft per team. We’ll also need tables for ingredient set up and other activity stations.

Ideal for

Incentive trips
Off-site meeting and conferences
Company celebrations
Fun & motivation
Friendly competition

Tailoring

With the right venue and enough advance notice, we can customize a menu to meet your team’s needs and taste buds. Ingredients are usually provided by the venue at an additional cost to you. Depending on schedule and availability, we may also be able to arrange for real food trucks to show up for your event. Just let us know what you’re thinking.

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"I just wanted to let you know what a wonderful event we had yesterday. Kevin (and his team) was absolutely phenomenal and the event was wildly successful. Everyone had such a great time and it absolutely served the purpose of bringing everyone together. We couldn’t be more pleased."

The Signature B&B Companies

"The event was excellent. Pat and his team were really great facilitators - they were experts and ran the event very smoothly from start to finish. Our entire team (of 150 participants of all levels) not only took away great team bonding experiences but also got to apply their marketing skills towards it. Not to mention, everyone had a blast!"

Yahoo

"Thanks so much to you and your team for facilitating such a fun and engaging event. We have received phenomenal feedback from the team, including our most senior leaders, and it was clear from observing that everyone really enjoyed themselves. I had a feeling our group would really embrace the challenge but the final products (both the food and the trucks) totally blew me away."

American Express

"The food truck challenge is a great team building exercise that will allow everyone to collaborate, build trust and allow the strength of each individual to stand out. I would highly recommend this to any company that wants to challenge their organization to be successful and achieve the goals together as a high performance team."

Novartis

"The Food Truck Challenge was great. Everybody had a great time and we had a lot of laughs. We were very happy with the event. Craig was great and very easy to work with. We had a lot of positive feedback from everyone who participated. Will definitely be using them again for future team bonding events. Thank you!"

Medtronic

"The Food Truck Challenge event was unique and well done. People really got into it. I have to say that it is a bit labor intensive with the amount of supplies and clean-up that is required after, but well worth it. Our Host was super easy going and gave us good direction. He set the event up very well."

Genentech

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