We’ve been nominated in The Great Food Truck Race America’s Favorite Giveaway sponsored by Food Network! You can vote for us now through September 10th. The truck with the most votes will win $10,000 and get a chance to appear on Season 2. Just visit foodnetwork.com/foodtrucks and click on America’s Favorite link. Be sure to catch The Great Food Truck Race. All new Sunday Nights at 9p/8c.
We could win- and you could, too! when you visit foodnetwork.com/foodtrucks or text message the keyword “FT75″ for The Treats Truck to the designated short code “66789″ for a limit of ten votes per day, you’ll receive an entry every time you vote through September 10th for their own chance to win an exclusive trip for two to a Food Network New York City Wine & Food Festival.
It is really fun to see all the fantastic trucks all over the country who are nominated. We love food trucks! We just wish we could sample the food from all of them. Yum!
Published by chocoyo August 29th, 2010
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Our truck will be closed for the week of August 30-September 6th. You can still order treats for delivery August 30-September 2nd! Have a wonderful end of summer, and see you soon!
Published by chocoyo August 29th, 2010
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On Tuesday, August 3rd, we are joining the 20th Precinct to celebrate National Night Out Against Crime. National Night Out is a nationwide program to promote neighborhood spirit and police-community partnerships for safer communities. Join us for games, prizes, food, music, crime prevention and fun at 72nd street and Broadway! We’ll be selling treats as well as giving away lots of free samples! 6:30pm-8pm.
Published by chocoyo August 2nd, 2010
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We’re going to be on the new TLC show, “Best Food Ever” on Saturday, July 31st! They picked their top ten mobile food businesses from around the country for their “Fabulous Food Carts” episode. We are excited to be on the show, and some of our regulars may find themselves on it, too (we love that!). Please check the TLC listings for the air times!
Published by chocoyo July 26th, 2010
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On Sunday, July 25th, our truck will be in the West Village in the afternoon near the Coach Store from 1-5pm! In addition to selling treats, we’ll be giving away free Coach Poppy cookies and one lucky person just might win a bag! We’ll put our exact location on our phone line, so give us a call! 212-691-5226.
Published by chocoyo July 24th, 2010
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This week, we’ll have lots of our most requested specials, including ice cream cone cupcakes and kitchen sink crispys and…yes, dessert nachos on a few of the days. We’ll have nachos on Thursday & Friday, and we’ll have cone cakes every day! In addition, if you want to order one of these specials for pick-up at the truck one day, give us a call or send us an email to arrange the order!
Published by chocoyo July 12th, 2010
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The Food Network has a new show called Kid in a Candy Store, hosted by Adam Gertler who crosses the country to find all kinds of sweets! The Treats Truck will be featured in the “Weird and Wacky” episode airing Sunday July 11 at 10:30pm Eastern time and Monday July 12 at 8:30 Eastern time. We hope you’ll check it out! It was really fun to tape, and Adam is a great host!
Published by chocoyo July 11th, 2010
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This July, The Treats Truck will be partnering with COACH to celebrate their Poppy collection. We’ll have special spots near Coach stores each week. On certain days, there will be cookie give-aways and someone will win a Poppy bag each week! Our truck Sugar is dolled up in his own special Poppy look - covered in images of handbags, jewelry and more. We’ll still be open for business as usual at our regular spots, as well as fun new ones, like in Soho and the Village. Saturday, July 3rd, come by the Coach store on West Broadway and Prince Street in Soho. The Treats Truck will be there all day!
Published by chocoyo July 3rd, 2010
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Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village have their free Music on the Oval summer concert series, June 16th and running through July 21st! An international mix of rock, funk, reggae, and soul will take the stage on consecutive Wednesday nights on the lawns of the Stuyvesant Town Oval at 7:00 p.m. Each week will start with a different pre-show DJ each night (spinning at 6pm), to be followed by a line-up to include the Easy Star All-Stars, Delorean, Tony Allen and Juana Molina. The Treats Truck and the Rickshaw Dumpling truck will be there, so come for music and some yummy food under the stars!
The Stuyvesant Town Oval is located between 16th and 18th Streets and Avenues A & B, with the entrance off of First Avenue and 16th Street. For more information the public can call (212) 598-5296 or visit www.stuytown.com and www.petercoopernyc.com.
Published by chocoyo June 30th, 2010
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Right now, a new controversial proposal is threatening the ability of all the city’s food trucks of continuing to do business on the street. We all love our customers and our neighborhoods and hope to continue to serve the city. Here is some information if you are interested in showing support.
Thank you so much,
Kim Ima (owner of the Treats Truck)
http://midtownlunch.com/2010/06/08/city-council-to-introduce-first-anti-food-truck-law/. This will not affect food carts, only food trucks. Here’s SVP’s written position on the bill: http://streetvendor.org/svp-position-on-food-truck-bill
here is the Leonard Lopate show (I’m on it) from yesterday:
Link to segment: http://beta.wnyc.org/shows/lopate/2010/jun/15/mobile-food/
CONTACTING COUNCIL MEMBERS
(you just type in your address and it takes you to your council member) http://council.nyc.gov/html/members/members.shtml
the council member leading the proposal:
Jessica Lappin (Sponsor) - 212-788-6865
Published by chocoyo June 16th, 2010
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