The Future

Boston is working on ways to support the food truck community. Urtubey said that the city will review the current sites and look out the reasons why owners don't choose some of them.

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“I think for us it’s really important that we make the process easier for residents and for truck owners. Obviously, we love this program, and we want it to be successful, so we’re doing what we can to make the process easier and more comprehensive and user-friendly,” Urtubey said.

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On the City of Boston’s website, a lottery registration form takes into account food truck owners’ basic information and their ethnicity and race, age, number of employees, number of food trucks and restaurants, and so on to learn about their identities.

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Urtubey said that the city wants to help owners who are minorities, women, veterans, or immigrants, to have proper certifications.

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Starting this year, the city post several workshops to connect to the food truck community. They received good feedbacks that were helpful for the city to analyze ways to run the program. The city is also looking for additional locations to offer more opportunities for food truck owners.   ​

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Urtubey said the city is encouraging and supporting these food trucks, but it takes time. She envisioned a positive future for food trucks in Boston.

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“When we established them back in 2011, it was seen as new and innovative, nowadays it’s very instrumental and kind of embed in the culture of the city of Boston, I think you can see that just by the growth of food trucks over time, how many people are starting new business and how we are supporting them," said Urtubey.

 

At first, Moy didn’t have the money to buy a food truck. He sold yakitori grills and dumplings in several food festivals. The initial idea was to sell yakitori with dumplings on the side, but he always ran out of dumplings and had yakitori left over, so he decided to focus on the more popular dumplings.

 

Moyzilla Food Truck now has 4 trucks and just opened a pop-up restaurant at the Seaport.

 

“I still wanna be on the truck,” Moy said. “We started as a food truck, no matter how many restaurants or whatever we end up doing in the future, the food trucks are always gonna be where we got our roots. Boston food truck scene is always gonna have a special place in our heart.”