City Licenses Seven New Food Trucks Including Waffle & Burger Trucks

By Amy Cavanaugh in Food on Jun 16, 2013 6:00PM

Yesterday, the Mayor's Office announced in a release that seven new food trucks received licenses to cook on-board the vehicles, and it's an excellent list. There's the Eastman Egg Company, a breakfast-themed truck serving egg specialties; Beaver's Coffee and Donuts; Gelato D'Oro; Cheesie's, a truck by the Lakeview grilled cheese restaurant; Windy City Patty Wagon, a burger truck; and Carbon's Kitchen, serving gourmet waffles. And then Giordano's. This brings the total of licensed food trucks up to 13.

Also, Mayor Emanuel taped an appearance for the Food Network's Great Food Truck Race, although, we don't know yet whether it was a Chicago truck that was in the competition. On the show, teams of wannabe food truck operators try to outsell one another in a coast-to-coast road trip and the winner gets a fully loaded food truck to start his or her business.