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UPDATE 8:05pm 3-31-13: Levy's Truckeria Rolling Tacos has a personal facebook page as well as a business facebook page. Levy also has a current license for Truckeria Rolling Tacos food truck good January 29, 2013 through April 1, 2014:
UPDATE 5:35pm 3-31-13: Chad announced that Trevor won't be working on the truck anymore and that they will be at Downtown Disney there this weekend. So the truck is *not* closed apparently. The story continues!
Truckeria, a food truck tourists and locals could find in 2012 and early 2013 in Downtown Disney, is not only closed now (their license expired February 1, 2013), but was actually owned by the company that owns the Downtown Disney restaurants Portobello, Fulton's and Wolgang Puck's Grand Cafe. The company is called Levy Restaurants. They also operate the food offerings at the Amway Center according to Magic Basketball Online.
This document, shared with us by an anonymous commenter, shows the truck ownership proof.
Also, Eating WDW apparently discovered this way back in June 2012. We're late to the party!
Perhaps Levy Restaurants is slowly testing food trucks here and there. Along with this 8-month trial period with Truck-Eria at Downtown Disney, the truck also made an appearance at a Marlins game in Miami, Florida. And, a Levy Restaurants food truck (we cannot find the name) made an appearance at a March 13, 2013 event serving up "excellent sizzling shrimp tostadas."
This all goes back to the question of Walt Disney World possibly creating its own line of food trucks for Disney Springs in a spot called "Food Truck Row." They confirmed Disney Springs, but not Food Truck Row. There had been appearances by a lobster food truck in Downtown Disney and several local trucks rented out by on-property hotels for private functions.
The truck had a facebook page created November 2012 with no owners listed, one venue and two photos and references to what can only be assumed are employees: Chad and Trevor. There was no mention of Levy Restaurants on the page anywhere. It had 47 followers. The updates were very similar to those that local Orlando food trucks make. The page gave no indication this was a corporate owned truck.
UPDATE 5:35pm 3-31-13: Chad announced that Trevor won't be working on the truck anymore and that they will be at Downtown Disney there this weekend. So the truck is *not* closed apparently. The story continues!
Truckeria, a food truck tourists and locals could find in 2012 and early 2013 in Downtown Disney, is not only closed now (their license expired February 1, 2013), but was actually owned by the company that owns the Downtown Disney restaurants Portobello, Fulton's and Wolgang Puck's Grand Cafe. The company is called Levy Restaurants. They also operate the food offerings at the Amway Center according to Magic Basketball Online.
This document, shared with us by an anonymous commenter, shows the truck ownership proof.
Also, Eating WDW apparently discovered this way back in June 2012. We're late to the party!
Perhaps Levy Restaurants is slowly testing food trucks here and there. Along with this 8-month trial period with Truck-Eria at Downtown Disney, the truck also made an appearance at a Marlins game in Miami, Florida. And, a Levy Restaurants food truck (we cannot find the name) made an appearance at a March 13, 2013 event serving up "excellent sizzling shrimp tostadas."
This all goes back to the question of Walt Disney World possibly creating its own line of food trucks for Disney Springs in a spot called "Food Truck Row." They confirmed Disney Springs, but not Food Truck Row. There had been appearances by a lobster food truck in Downtown Disney and several local trucks rented out by on-property hotels for private functions.
The truck had a facebook page created November 2012 with no owners listed, one venue and two photos and references to what can only be assumed are employees: Chad and Trevor. There was no mention of Levy Restaurants on the page anywhere. It had 47 followers. The updates were very similar to those that local Orlando food trucks make. The page gave no indication this was a corporate owned truck.