What happens when you are an event planner and you need food trucks to travel with you but can’t find any? Jeff Sebben’s obvious solution was to buy a fleet of them.
Sebben owns Northern Mobile Foods, based on Falconbridge Road.
He moved from the Toronto area six years ago with the intention of bringing food trucks to events all over the North from Kapuskasing to Cochrane, Sault Ste. Marie and down to the Huntsville area.
“I quickly realized there were not enough food trucks to attend all these weekend events so I started my own fleet,” he said.
Now, there are four trucks in the fleet with Cheese Louise being the gooey, favourite front-runner here in Sudbury.
Cheese Louise offers specialty grilled cheese sandwiches and all other things made of cheese like mac and cheese balls, mozzarella sticks and more.
Under the motto “life’s gouda”, Sebben said his favourite menu items are the buffalo chicken grilled cheese and the pulled pork poutine.
He said customers are always mesmerized by the brie and red pepper grilled cheese “because it is something you just can’t find anywhere else,” he said.
Sebben has two new fun fair food trailers this year with the Sweet Spot, a dessert trailer offering warm churros, stick waffles and mini donuts, and Icee, which offers fun and flavourful carbonated beverages like you would get at an amusement park with flavours like blue raspberry, cotton candy, cherry and pina colada.
“As you can see, we like the use of pun in our food truck names,” Sebben said.
His fourth trailer is the classic BeaverTails dessert truck, a favourite at festivals across Ontario.
From Monday to Thursday, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., the trucks are parked and open for business on Falconbridge Road, right near the entrance to St. Charles College.
Sebben on Fridays the trucks are stocked up with supplies and convoy together down the highway to events crisscrossing all over Northern Ontario.
The trucks are often booked for festivals, fairs, corporate events, weddings and sports venues.
The trucks employ about five staff during the week with an additional 10 workers every weekend on the road.
He said the welcome to the neighbours off Falconbridge has been nice to see. While many visitors come by car, many walk over.
“Everyday the sales are getting better and that must mean something,” Sebben said.
The travelling weekends run June 1 to Oct. 1.
To learn more about Northern Mobile Food Trucks, visit NorthernMobileFoods.ca.
Anastasia Rioux is a writer in Greater Sudbury. Let’s Eat! is made possible by our Community Leaders Program.