The food truck’s true renaissance, however, arrived in the late 2000s. It dates back as far as the nighttime “lunch wagons” that catered to New York City nightshift workers at the turn of the 20th century, and even farther - some accounts cite the chuckwagon, a mobile canteen for Texas cattle ranchers after the American Civil War, as an early progenitor of the street food vendors we know and love today. The idea of serving food out of a truck with a mobile kitchen is not new.
