Food trucks are a staple in our area. Owners of these titans of hunger have a new space to craft and develop tastier dishes for the community.
Tasty Hub in Eureka is a commercial commissary kitchen helping food truck owners craft their dishes.
This space gives back to the owners and entrepreneurs in the industry.
“It stemmed more from lack of kitchen use or kitchen facilities for people that wanted to start businesses, you know, pop up, things like that. I wanted to create a space where, you know, folks could use the kitchen to do pastries or whatever other things that they wanted to do,” Tasty Hub owner Gabrielle Long said.
Tasty Hub was the idea of owner Long, who has her own food truck experience as the owner of A Taste of Bim.
Tasty Hub offers food truck entrepreneurs a full kitchen to prep and work in.
“This place provides equipment that’s necessary for food trucks. Sometimes food trucks go into spaces that may not have full capability or full equipment,” Long said. “We try to provide at least the basic things that they need to have, you know, all that they need to for you know, expanding their menu.”
The hub can serve as a destination for the cold winter months for local trucks to continue their business with a dine-in eating area.
“In Humboldt, especially during winter times or the later on the year, there is a drop off in food truck sales, food truck activities,” Long said. “I experienced that also having a food truck. So a destination hub for a food truck or a food court would also help with that.”
Those who have signed with the hub for use include two new businesses Vaqueros Mexican and American Food and ramen-based You Had Me At Ramen.
Non-profit Pathways of Purpose and Black Humboldt are partnering with Tasty Hub for those interested in getting into the food industry.
“We’re starting with the food trucks and entrepreneurs and then we’re going to branch off to even more community service,” Long said. “We’re teaching classes, you know, our nonprofit partnerships and things like that. Maybe having food related art, you know, different things like that.”
It’s a place long wished she could have had when she was starting out years ago.
“Especially a destination where you can have, you know, a truck that could be your home, you know, where folks can come, like I said, year round and sit down and eat,” Long said.
