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.

Business Bites: Navigating the Latest Facebook Page Upgrade, Food Hackathons, and Skipping the DMV

Welcome back to Business Bites, a bi-weekly column with articles and tidbits we've come across in the last two weeks.…

June 27, 2014

Business Bites: Start-Up Food, Employee Culture, Video Tips, & Coupon Apps

A quick note before I jump into this week's articles and links. We recently learned that some of our contact…

September 30, 2014

Business Bites: Nifty Napkins, WiFi on the Go, and IFTTT Recipes

Today I'm going to hit you with a couple quick articles, and then I'm going to dig deep into our…

September 30, 2014

Business Bites: Better Social Media Tracking, Measuring Customer Happiness, and Loyalty Programs That Work

Welcome back to another Business Bites, our rundown of the most useful business tips we’ve encountered in the past week.…

September 30, 2014

Business Bites: Twitter Tips, Heartbleed, a Must-Read Book, and an Audacious New Coffee Cart

We've had a lot of fun exploring food trucks from the fan's perspective, but it's time that I play with…

September 30, 2014

#FoodTruckFan: When Your Favorite Truck Gets Popular

The FoodTruckr team is together in San Diego this week, and a couple of us had an experience that I…

April 4, 2014

#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: Getting Unstuck & Finding Your Next Big Idea

Running a food truck is an inherently creative endeavor, from the crafting of the recipes, to creating a visual brand…

February 7, 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

Storytelling: Tell Me Your ‘Why’ And I’ll Buy

You have a story to tell me, your customer. Your daily life is vastly more interesting than my monotonous job,…

January 16, 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