Visit franktuary.com/foodtruck for the current truck schedule! Emailus-at-franktuary-dot-com to book the truck!

Here are some guidelines about events for which you can request the truck:

1. Pre-paid Catering: Just like ordering a sandwich ring from your
favorite sub shop, except it’s hot dogs and it drives straight onto
your property! We customize the menu for your preferences and head
count. If your event location has electricity, specifically 2 outdoor
outlets, we will not have to run our noisy generator.

Great for: movie sets, company picnics, private parties (especially if
you have a POOL we can use afterward!), weddings, employee
incentives/gifts

2. Vending Lunch Visit: So you don’t want to pre-pay but you think you
can bring a crowd? We’ll try just about anywhere at least once.
Within the city, we need $250 in sales in the first hour to consider
making a return visit. If you will hang up posters announcing our
arrival, have access to inter-office email lists, or are just plain
really popular, we’ll take your word for it! Currently available
Mondays, Wednesdays, and some Fridays.

Great for: isolated business parks, warehouse complexes, company
parking lots, neighborhood events

3. Community Event: Know about a cool event or fundraiser we should
attend? Send the details our way. Some events have regulations or
contracts with other food vendors, but if we can make it we’ll be
there!

Examples: Gallery Crawl, Penn Ave’s First Fridays, JLP’s Touch A
Truck, Animal Friends’ Bark In The Park

General Information:

- Truck Dimensions: 16′ long, 12′ high, fits into a regular parking
spot with a bit of overhang
- Electricity: 2 80′ extension cords running to your 2 power outlets
OR gasoline generator (noisy!)
- Menu: general menu on our blog or we’ll work with you
- Contact: emailus@franktuary.com, Twitter: @franktuary

The Franktuary truck is now operating from the parking lot of Hot Metal Bridge Faith Community, 27th and Jane Street, on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 11:30 am to 2:00 pm! The truck can also be booked for a trip to your property. To book the truck for your event, read our guidelines and emailus@franktuary.com.

Keep up with the truck’s selling location by following @Franktuary on Twitter and check out the new 2011 menu here!

Standard All-Beef Frank – $3.00
Veggie Frank – $3.50
Local Grass-fed Beef Frank – $4.00
Veggie Carrot Frank – $3.00 (when available)
Local Grass-fed Burger – $4.00 (when available)

The Oahu (Pineapple, Green Onions, Bacon, and Teriyaki Sauce) – add $2.00 to any of the above options

The Brasil (Mashed Potatoes, Corn Salsa, Crumbled Potato Chips, and Bacon) – add $2.00 to any of the above options

Poutine (French Fries, Housemade Vegan Gravy, and Arsenal Cheese Cannonball Curds) – $6.00

French Fries – $4.00

Beverages (Snapple, Bottled Water, San Pellegrino Aranciata and Limonata) – $2.00

Franktuary is celebrating the resurrection of its food truck! The 1988 Chevy P-30 made its Pittsburgh debut last summer, briefly appearing on the mobile food scene before several dramatic setbacks including decapitation by overpass, complete engine failure, and propane-malfunction fireballs. Repaired, restored, and completely safe, the vehicle now vends from Hot Metal Bridge Faith Community’s Southside parking lot at 2700 Jane Street. Two percent of all profits generated on Hot Metal property are shared with the church, which runs a variety of neighborhood ministries throughout the week.

Effective May 5, 2011 the truck will operate from the Hot Metal lot every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday from 11 am to 3 pm unless otherwise noted on the restaurant’s Twitter feed.

Unique menu items that differ from the downtown storefront are offered from the truck. Continuing the store’s international topping trend, a Boar’s Head all-beef or locally farmed grass-fed beef frankfurter can be topped as the Brasil – mashed potatoes, tomato corn relish, crumbled bacon, potato sticks and mayo – or the Oahu – bacon, pineapple, green onions, and teriyaki sauce. Rounding out the menu are vegetarian franks made from whole grilled carrots, grass-fed burgers, and Franktuary’s take on poutine, Canada’s national dish: french fries covered in house-made vegetarian brown gravy and local Cannonball Curds from Arsenal Cheese (www.arsenalcheese.com).

Franktuary’s truck is completely mobile and is actively booking private events. Organizations that have already benefited from the truck’s adaptable nature include movie production crews, wedding parties and the 300 children at Frick Environmental Charter School, where Franktuary provides healthy grass-fed beef and vegetarian meals, saving students from typical school lunch options. To charter the truck for your event, write to emailus@franktuary.com.

You’ve heard it before. Franktuary has a food truck. But maybe you don’t believe it. After all, said food truck has been hard to find since it arrived in Pittsburgh about a year ago.

Well, all that is about to change. This weekend our truck is relaunching. Since we last made that claim in January we’ve installed a remanufactured diesel engine and overhauled the propane system. Just to be safe, I’m taking the truck out for a final tuneup –with a professional– tomorrow afternoon.

Really, what’s left to go wrong??? Please don’t answer that. Instead, come buy our food. Here’s how to do that:

This Saturday, April 2, we’ll be serving from our home base, the parking lot behind Hot Metal Bridge Faith Community (2700 Jane Street), from approximately 10 am to 2 pm. If I’m not mistaken, inside HMBFC artists will be displaying and selling their work. In other words, all that’s missing is you.

Anyway, we’ll actually be vending from the Hot Metal parking lot the next few Saturdays, and as the weather becomes more seasonable we intend to operate from that lot most days of the week. Of course, we’ll still take the truck out on the town as opportunities arise. Stay tuned right here for schedule updates.

Want to see our truck at your event? Want to give it a nickname? Want to share your most intimate frankfurter-centric thoughts? Call 412-475-9846 or drop a note to emailus [at] franktuary [dot] com. Follow Franktuary on Twitter for real time truck updates.

Perhaps by now you’ve figured out that our previous blog entry ended up being a bit premature. But, really, there’s nothing we could have done differently. Soon enough, we hope it will speak the truth.

In December we tested our food truck multiple times to make sure all our kitchen systems were in working order. We then coordinated a Groupon to correspond with the relaunch of our currently engineless truck stationed on the South Side. We arrived at the truck Monday morning ready to start a new chapter in its life. We then discovered that the propane regulator had failed sometime between our last test run and our anticipated relaunch.

The good news is no one was hurt and the truck did not explode amidst a mass of towering flames! The bad news is we are now waiting on a part and, yet again, won’t be using our truck until further notice.

As we wait, I’m offering this special offer to blog readers only. Recently I tried bikram yoga, also known as “hot yoga,” for the first time. The basic gist is that an individual does yoga in a 104 degree room for longer than he would ever consider sane if he wasn’t paying money for the experience.

We have a storage room that is uncomfortably warm, even during the coldest months of the year. If a person wears a winter coat while spending more than 15 seconds in this room, he finds himself feeling a lot like he does in a bikram yoga room. This is verified fact, people, not some cockamamie claim! Folks pay BIG money for an experience I can provide you with as a throw in when you come to Franktuary for lunch.

So, visit us downtown, tell our cashier “I’m here for the hot stuff,” (inflection matters!) and I will grant you exclusive free access to our back storage room. You can engage in your own private “bikram” session prior to lunch or at a date to be determined later. You can even borrow my Rodney Yee DVD, but you’re on your own when it comes to a towel and mat.

Now getting back to that truck… If all goes well we should be ready to re-relaunch sometime next week. Eventually, I promise that there will be content on this blog of both a factual AND useful nature!

Welcome to Franktuary’s newest venture, a food truck at 2700 Jane Street, in the Hot Metal Bridge Faith Community rear parking lot.

Hours: 11:30 am to 1:30 pm, Monday – Saturday
5 to 8 pm on Thursday, Friday, Saturday evenings

Phone: 412.475.9846

Twitter: @franktuary

Menu: ALL OUR BEEF IS LOCAL, GRASS-FED, ORGANIC!

Beef Chili
- 12 oz bowl…$5

Vegetarian Soup of the Day
- 12 oz bowl…$4.50

All-Beef Franks
- Texan: chili, cheese, jalapenos…$4
- New Yorker: kraut, onion sauce, brown mustard…$4

Carrot Dog
- with Secret Sauce…$3.50
- New Yorker: kraut, onion sauce, brown mustard…$4

Penguin Poutine – Quebec-style fries topped with fresh cheese curds and brown gravy
- Large…$7.50
- Small…$4.50

Hot Punch of the Day – Bring your own mug, get $.25 OFF!
- 12 oz…$3

* Be one of the first 15 people in line and your meal is FREE!
* 2700 Jane Street, parking lot of Hot Metal Bridge church
* Noon to 1:30 pm
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ALL OUR BEEF IS LOCAL, GRASS-FED, ORGANIC!

Beef Chili

- 12 oz bowl…$5
- over fries…$7
- add cheese…+$.75

Vegetarian Soup of the Day: BLACK BEAN ROASTED RED PEPPER

- 12 oz bowl…$4.50
- over fries…$6.50
- add cheese…+$.75

All-Beef Franks

- Texan: chili, cheese, jalapenos…$4
- New Yorker: kraut, onion sauce, brown mustard…$4

Carrot Dog

- with Secret Sauce…$3.50
- New Yorker: kraut, onion sauce, brown mustard…$4

Penguin Poutine – Quebec fries topped with cheese curds and brown gravy

- Large…$7.50
- Small…$4.50

Hot Punch of the Day: HONEY CRANBERRY SPICE – Bring your own mug, get $.25 OFF!
- 12 oz…$3

We are thrilled to make our first neighborhood lunch visit! Find us THIS FRIDAY, somewhere on Jane Street between 25th and 27th. Please help spread the word to friends and co-workers!

Franktuary Mobile
Friday, 16 July
12 to 1:30 pm

Organic locally farmed grass-fed beef Frankfurter – small – $3.50
Organic locally farmed grass-fed beef Frankfurter – large – $5.50
Organic locally farmed grass-fed beef Sliders – 2 for $5.50

Carrot Dog – marinated grilled carrot! – $3
Veggie Dog – $3.50

French Fries – $3
Fried Dill Pickle Chips – $3

Sodas, Bottled Water – $2

We prefer cash but can take credit cards via Square and our iPad!

If you don’t see the truck, check out our Twitter feed – we’ll be live updating! www.twitter.com/franktuary

www.franktuary.com

In a stirring tribute to Peter Pan, Major League Baseball has scheduled a special interleague series between your Pittsburgh Pirates and the Cleveland Indians this weekend at PNC Park.*

And if pirates and indians don’t do it for you there’s another good reason to visit the North Side this weekend.  Specifically, there’s a good reason to visit the Mattress Factory on Sunday afternoon.  There may be a certain food truck involved between 12 pm and 5 pm.

*Please note: The role of the Lost Boys, who never grow up, will also be played by your Pittsburgh Pirates.