StretchLearn Course
Permits, commissary, menu math, event booking, and routes, taught with real line items and worked examples.
Course Overview
This course walks you from idea to a truck that turns a margin, using real frameworks and the actual line items operators face. You will price a truck and commissary, design a 6-to-10 item menu costed to food-cost targets, and build an event-and-route calendar that keeps the wheels moving. Every module ends in a deliverable you can take to a lender, a health inspector, or a festival organizer.
Learning Outcomes
Build a startup budget and break-even model for a food truck, including truck, build-out, commissary, and working capital
Navigate the permit stack: business license, mobile food vendor permit, health permit, fire inspection, and commissary agreement
Engineer a menu using food-cost percentage, contribution margin, and the Stars/Plowhorses/Puzzles/Dogs matrix
Price each item to hit a 28 to 35 percent food cost while protecting throughput during a rush
Book paid events and recurring lunch spots, and negotiate fees, percentages, and minimum guarantees
Plan routes and a weekly schedule that maximize covers per hour and minimize dead miles and fuel
Curriculum Preview
Preview the course structure, see how the modules build on one another, and understand the path this program is designed to take you through.
Before you cook a single taco, you cost the whole machine. This module builds the startup budget, the unit economics, and the break-even point so you know how many covers a day you must sell to survive.
The paperwork that lets you legally cook and sell. You will map the permit stack, pass a health inspection, and lock in a commissary kitchen, the legally required home base most jurisdictions demand.
Design a tight menu that cooks fast, costs right, and steers customers toward your most profitable items. You will cost recipes, price to food-cost targets, and sort the menu with the classic engineering matrix.
Fill the calendar and keep the wheels turning profitably. You will book paid events and recurring spots, negotiate the right fee structure, and plan routes and a weekly schedule that maximize covers per hour.
Built for Application
This program is designed around progression: focused lessons, structured modules, applied resources, assessments, and a course rhythm that turns information into usable capability.