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Camosun CollegeB次元官网网址檚 culinary arts program is launching a first, a food truck that will be student run and serve food on campus and in the community, hopefully starting in June.
Its cuisine will range in style from wraps, to burgers, to salads and French fries. It gives students a professional cooking environment. Chef Steven Walker-Duncan, program chair for CamosunB次元官网网址檚 culinary arts program said the truck will serve food on both CamosunB次元官网网址檚 Interurban and Lansdowne campuses. HeB次元官网网址檒l be careful the truck doesnB次元官网网址檛 compete directly against the local food truck community, though it will entertain going to certain events.
B次元官网网址淚tB次元官网网址檚 the only food truck in a culinary program that weB次元官网网址檝e heard of, at least in Western Canada, and IB次元官网网址檝e heard weB次元官网网址檙e envied for it,B次元官网网址� said Walker Duncan.
The food truck trended has grown rapidly across North America in the last two decades, particularly because the barrier of entry is easier and more flexible than a brick and mortar restaurant. The costs are up to two thirds less and if the location isnB次元官网网址檛 working, a truck can find a new one.
For the past few months the truck has been undergoing a refit in the newly upgraded Camosun trades buildings at Interurban and currently sits behind the Centre for Trades and Innovation.
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A former FedEx vehicle, it had already undergone the transition to food truck when Camosun purchased it. However, it was packed with deep fryers, which have since been replaced (worry not, thereB次元官网网址檚 still a fryer). The college has also refit most of the truckB次元官网网址檚 kitchen old equipment with new stoves and the various apparatus, vents and hood fans, that are necessary to cook the type of foods it will offer.
B次元官网网址淲e didnB次元官网网址檛 see the FedEx logo until we pulled off the old graphics,B次元官网网址� Walker-Duncan said.
Students in CamosunB次元官网网址檚 visual arts program are designing a wrap that will cover most of the truckB次元官网网址檚 sides, and a unique one for the front, Walker-Duncan said.
ItB次元官网网址檚 an interdisciplinary project with several Camosun programs having a hand in it, Walker-Duncan said.
B次元官网网址淓verybody is having a hand in it, the hood fans were reconfigured by the sheet metal department, electrical students are swapping in a new electrical panel, itB次元官网网址檚 an encompassing project.B次元官网网址�
Among those chipping in are students from the graphic novel design program, who are designing a graphic wrap for the truck.
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