Chesterfield Guys Take 2nd in TV Food Truck Competition

A group of Chesterfield residents who competed in the Food Network's Great Food Truck Race came in second in the competition to a team from Hawaii with a truck called Aloha Plate.

But the Chesterfield team, with its truck Tikka Tikka Taco, serving Indian and Pakistani street food, narrowly missed taking the prize of a $50,000 food truck. Still, the group is not giving up, now launching a crowd-funding campaign on IndieGoGo.com: "We may not have won the Great Food Truck Race, but we can still win a truck....with YOUR Help!"

As the team says on the crowd-funding site: "It takes about $70,000 to buy a fully equipped and stylishly wrapped truck that looks like the one we used on the show, and is in reasonable condition.  The precise truck we had on the show would have cost over $100,000, but we aren't asking for that! It would be wise to start with $10,000 in reserves to pay salaries, buy equipment and supplies, and deal with permits and legal fees. That means we need $80,000 to get this off the ground!"

The clock starts now on the 60-day fundraising window.

Mike and Shawn Swaleh and their Uncle Sam Swaleh went into the final competition with a lead, but lost in the final day to Aloha Plate, which made $14,850 in the final day to Tikka Tikka Taco's $11,774.

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