Pat Flynn

While everyone’s circadian rhythms are different and some people require more sleep than others, it’s essential to get the right amount of sleep each night. Nonetheless, sleep is a vital part and will help keep your mind and body healthy as well as help you recover from, more likely than not, being on your feet all day and putting in a lot of work at your food truck. While you have to put in a lot of work to grow your food truck business, you also have to take care of your mental health by incorporating downtime and breaks, time with friends and family, time for relaxation and rest, time for fun activities and passion products, and time away from work. While many business owners are solely focused on their businesses, it’s important to take care of yourself as well, and we hope the three practices above can help you stay healthy.

Sign up to receive the FoodTruckr Newsletter and we’ll throw in our free guide: 6 Free Social Media Tools to Get People Talking About Your Food Truck. If you bring a positive mindset to work, then your employees will like working for you and your happiness and mood will shine off. Of course, having the ability to dish out proper feedback in the form of constructive criticism can ensure operations are running smoothly, jobs are getting done properly and you aren’t hurting anyone’s ego while making your employees better. If you’re in a bad mood, then that can affect their mood, but the same thing rings true if you’re in a good mood.

While it’s easy to stay motivated and work nonstop at your truck at the beginning of your journey, you eventually have to take the foot off the gas pedal in the form of breaks. In the grand scheme of things, you’re going to be cooking food and serving customers no matter where your work and gigs take place and that helps a lot in terms of staying motivated because it’s what you’re likely most passionate about. While that’s easier said than done, and of course, you want to reach your goals, it’s important to have new things to shoot for and large goals to reach. These are the things that keep us going, whether it’s making more money and being able to work less, expanding your food truck business with more food trucks or a sit-down restaurant or whatever it might be.

After all, your task list is likely never-ending and you also have to manage other people, not to mention all of the other things owners have to do in the food truck industry (cooking, serving, inventory, etc.). Sign up to receive the FoodTruckr Newsletter and we’ll throw in our free guide: 6 Free Social Media Tools to Get People Talking About Your Food Truck. This is a tough technique for food truck owners (or owners in any industry) to incorporate because it’s hard to know when you should make changes. You’re also allowed to change things when you figure out more productive ways to get work done, such as doing tasks before you start cooking and serving food as opposed to trying to fit them into that time frame.