Dan Hunt (left) and Darlyn Hunt (right) will retire from their food truck, Good to Go Ventures at the end of the 2019 season. (submitted photo/Dan Hunt)

By Ronald Quaroni

Sleeping Restaurants

North East food trucks going into hibernation

Oct 9, 2019 | 11:43 AM

The food truck industry is bustling in Saskatchewan but it’s hard to operate a restaurant on wheels when the weather takes a turn.

Various food trucks in the northeast have packed away their trucks for the year.

St. Brieux based-truck Good to Go Ventures Inc. will keep rolling until Halloween.

“After that we’ll shut down our regular route and then it will be just catering until the end of the year,” Darlyn Hunt, co-owner of Good to Go Ventures Inc. said. “It’s a little slower you get a little downtime.”

She indicated when they first started running the truck, they attempted to run year-round but it was just too costly.

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Baby Got Bannock, another popular food truck based out of Prince Albert, will also move to a catering model, following their summer season on top of other duties related to owning a business.

“I’m usually starting my prep and the booking of events in January. I also start to do my bookkeeping and budgeting for the next year,” owner Kyra Robillard said.

She indicated her food truck is primarily shutting down to allow for a more moderate schedule.

“It does give us that time to slow down and enjoy family time and the holidays,” Robillard said. “We were able to start up in April and we quit early in September. We had a great summer. [The] events were all rainy, but we still had great days.”

Robillard explained the truck will get winterized, with the option of taking it out for occasions should big events arise throughout the winter.

She extended a thank you to her customers who supported throughout the season and they look forward to seeing everyone next year.

Darlyn Hunt also wanted extend appreciation for those who visited them this season, which unfortunately, will also be their last.

“Not just in St. Brieux, but surrounding communities. It’s been really nice to have been able to served people for six years and we are going to miss it, there’s no question,” Hunt said.

She and her husband Dan, who also has a full-time job, look forward to spending more time with their grandkids.

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Ron.quaroni@jpbg.ca

Twitter: @RonaldQuaroni