Food Trucks are small, independent businesses that lack the infrastructure of their brick-and-mortar restaurant counterparts. The Food Trucks Association aims to develop a full suite of tools to provide a competitive infrastructure and suite of tools and resources that will help Food Trucks to advance their business.

The students can decide on one (or more) of the following projects:

1. An employee training manual that will provide best-in-class, interprovincially relevant content to develop and hone soft skills in the areas of customer service, cash handling, special events, teamwork, receptive tourism & hospitality skills. This may also include numeracy, and basic food safety requirements
2. An employer guide that highlights the importance and advantages of hiring a diverse and inclusive workforce, which should also include an employer self-assessment, to provide feedback to the employer for their own training and professional development
3. Other suggested/proposed guides from the students

• Undertake research of the important/critical job skills that would be relevant to food truck operations (keep in mind that food trucks often operate as caterers as well as food trucks)
• Ensure that training is specific enough to provide meaningful impact for the intended audience, while being broad enough to be used on a national basis without concern for provincial and territorial laws and standards
• Students would be encouraged to develop a 2-page labour guide template for each province and territory that are intended to be updated annually, that include up-to-date minimum wage information and any relevant information that might be specific to each jurisdiction - with referral links for where to get the most up-to-date information.

We are only too happy to provide:

• A briefing document along with a facilitated overview of the important themes and needs for the project
• Any key messages, target audiences, and available creative assets to help them understand the brand
• A single point of contact (POC) assigned to your course and students, with a team of experts available for questions
• Access to Slack, Google Workspace, and some other project management tools. We welcome the students so they can feel as though they are part of the team, or at arm's length - whatever is best.
• *For those running courses outside of Canada*, we'll provide guidance and direction for the students to better understand the Canadian business (and geographical) landscape, along with openly available sources of data that could be useful in making their assessments.
• Recognition of the school's involvement and the students' work in a media release (if permitted) and attribution of the students' contributions via LinkedIn or references as required.