Mindy Holahan

Mindy Holahan is a staff writer and the #FoodTruckFan columnist. Indeed, she’s a big ole fan of food trucks, particularly if they sell fish tacos. She has a background in the hospitality industry, loves working with writers, and gets positively giddy about the intersection between cooking and science. Follow her on Twitter @HolaMindy for daily bouts of enthusiasm or on Instagram @HolaMindy for her adventures and epic failures in gluten-free baking.

#FoodTruckFan: Your Approachability Factor

I had a group of friends over for dinner the other night, and we got on to the topic of…

March 21, 2014

#FoodTruckFan: Selling Extras

A food truck saved my bacon a couple of weeks ago—and it had nothing to do with food. As I've…

March 7, 2014

#FoodTruckFan: Customer Loyalty Programs

This week's inspiration comes from an unexpected location: my neighborhood's 90-year-old candy shop. I was intrigued—and impressed—to see an iPad…

February 21, 2014

#FoodTruckFan: How to Sell the Cost of Better Ingredients

On Wednesday in the "How to Start a Food Truck" series, we wrote about the importance of quality ingredients. As…

January 24, 2014

#FoodTruckFan: What Makes Food Trucks So Special?

I've been giving this question a lot of thought in the last nine months, since Pat first told us about…

January 24, 2014

#FoodTruckFan: Resolutions

Are you the kind of person who sets resolutions each year? I am, from something as simple as choosing a…

January 24, 2014

#FoodTruckFan: Winter Blues No More

Winter is a tough time of year for a food truck fan living in the colder regions of the country.…

January 24, 2014

#FoodTruckFan: Guilty Pleasures

What's your guilty pleasure? Mine's a grilled cheese sandwich: bread grilled until it's dark and crunchy, cheese that's impossibly melty,…

January 24, 2014

Three Keys to Building Food Truck Super-Fans

We know quite a few food truck super-fans. To shed light on the loves and habits of such adoring food…

January 16, 2014