North View Lanes’ Family Food Trucks and Fun Nights

It’s not information that over the previous a number of years, meals vehicles have turn out to be an more and more fashionable possibility for meals gross sales. For these within the meals trade, it provides an easier, cheaper method to open a meals enterprise than opening a brick-and-mortar restaurant. In 2023, Fayetteville took a giant step ahead within the meals truck trade with the opening of the Haymount Truck Stop, a meals truck court docket and bar on Hay Street.
It was an instantaneous hit and continues to be a well-liked spot to seize a fast lunch, exit for a singular dinner expertise, or spend a night out with buddies.
The reputation of the Haymount Truck Stop didn’t escape the discover of Leila Scarborough and the group at North View Lanes, a family-owned bowling alley at 5307 Ramsey Street. They determined that their huge, open car parking zone was the proper setting to permit meals vehicles to arrange, providing an extra choice to promote their wares and bringing extra number of meals choices to the north aspect of city. So, on June 5, North View Lanes welcomed its first meals vehicles, and it has been successful ever since.
Here’s the association: North View Lanes, positioned instantly throughout from Methodist University on Ramsey Street, hosts a complete of three meals vehicles at a time, each Friday and Saturday. Due to limitations imposed by metropolis ordinance, that’s the most they’ll have at one time.
However, the managers just like the association; they need to hold the occasion pretty small to make sure that it’s a useful expertise for the meals vehicles. There is not any price to the meals vehicles.
The car parking zone is giant sufficient for vehicles with trailers to remain linked, and there may be nonetheless loads of parking for purchasers. They prepare to have two savory meals vehicles and one candy meals truck every Friday and Saturday night, to supply selection and selection for purchasers, in addition to a possibility for dessert.
Food truck prospects are welcome to return into the bowling alley and make use of their seating space, air con, and restrooms, whether or not or not they’re bowling. Of course, a meal from a meals truck plus a spherical or two of bowling make for an important weekend outing!
In the weeks since Family Food Trucks and Fun Night kicked off in June, North View Lanes has hosted all kinds of meals vehicles, a few of whom have been well-established for years and others who’re simply getting began. Their lineup has included a big selection of meals, together with burgers, soul meals, tacos, and empanadas, simply to call a number of.
Sweet Frog is at all times a favourite, however there are many different dessert meals truck choices to take pleasure in as effectively: D’licious Icys, The Sugar Shack, and Baby Freeze, for instance.
On Aug. 8, North View Lanes would be the setting for a ribbon-cutting for a brand new dessert meals truck, Sprinkle Me Pink. Described on their Facebook web page as a “mobile dessert experience,” Sprinkle Me Pink will provide handcrafted cheesecake, cake slices, and cookies.
The ribbon chopping will happen at 5:30 p.m., and prospects can get dinner from Yummy Hibachi or Abby’s Empanadas earlier than digging into their dessert from Sprinkle Me Pink. Or, go straight for dessert!
If meals truck house owners are involved in getting in on the enjoyable at North View Lanes, they’ll attain out by way of e-mail to northviewlanes@hotmail.com. Spaces are absolutely booked for August, however they’re nonetheless taking reservations for September and October. Customers are inspired to trace which meals vehicles will probably be coming to North View Lanes on their Facebook web page, which pronounces every week’s choices. North View Lanes’ Family Food Trucks and Fun Night provides a win-win for each native meals companies and the Fayetteville neighborhood, the place good meals and household enjoyable come collectively.

(Graphic courtesy of North View Lanes’ Facebook web page)