Everyone who’s been to college knows how bad dining hall food can be. Three students at Bowdoin College have come up with a partial solution while still maintaining full class schedules – a weekend food truck.
The weekend-only food truck, run by Steve Borukhin, Class of 2014, and Isaac Brower and Eric Edelman, both Class of 2013 will cater to late-night cravings long after the last campus food option closes its doors.
Brower already owned a fully-functional food truck, from which he runs Duo’s Takeout in Rockland during the summer.
From the Bowdoin Orient: “He had actually thought about bringing the truck to campus, but he didn’t have the energy or the team to do it by himself,” said Edelman of Browser. “It was a great situation where we were willing to put the work in, but didn’t have the physical capital, and he had the capital, but not necessarily the time to do the work.”
Negotiations with the school “had many phases and took a lot of time,” said Borukhin. “We were told ‘yes’ coming out of last year, in early August we were waiting on a contract and they nixed it, changed their minds.”
The trio plans to run Thursday through Saturday from 10 p.m. to 3 a.m. and hopes to hire a team of students to operate the truck in three-hour shifts.
The menu will consist of standard American dishes like burgers, wraps, fries, and onion rings as well as “falafel for the vegans” and a rotating menu of specials, which, Edelman says, could incorporate some of his more creative ideas, such as fried Oreos.
Who says college is all about partying? Someone needs to feed the partying masses.
