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Side Hustle School

Ep. 3250 - First $1,000: Digital Window Menu Boards for Food Trucks

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau / Onward Project

Business, Entrepreneurship, Careers

4.8 โ€ข 3.3K Ratings

๐Ÿ—“๏ธ 24 November 2025

โฑ๏ธ 8 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s First $1,000 segment, a designer helps food trucks and pop-up restaurants get rid of chalk dust and update to the digital age.

Side Hustle School features a new episode EVERY DAY, featuring detailed case studies of people who earn extra money without quitting their job. This year, the show includes free guided lessons and listener Q&A several days each week.

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0:00.0

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0:05.6

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0:10.1

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0:48.2

Lemonada.

0:52.8

You ever go for lunch or dinner at a food truck, especially like a food truck pod or a food cart

1:03.3

pod where they've got a whole bunch of different carts or trucks and you can kind of pick

1:08.0

in shoes or perhaps combine items, you might have seen these whiteboards

1:12.5

where they post menus. And you've got different prices, you've got new items. Maybe it's a

1:18.6

handwritten board with some chalk. Well, today's featured side hustler, a freelance videographer

1:24.3

who rent space in a big Houston commissary kitchen thought that there had to be

1:28.8

a cleaner way, a better way, a digital way, and also a way that is helpful for both her clients

1:34.8

and for herself. So one day while she's filming a promo reel, she notices a stack of old

1:41.5

Android tablets that are just kind of sitting around. And then she starts messing with

1:45.8

Canva, mocks up a full screen menu that could sit in a truck service window and update really

1:51.8

simply and easily. So a week after that, she had this whole turnkey package, refurbished tablets,

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