In 2009, TheDailyCity.com's Mark Baratelli created Taco Truck Taste Test, a monthly food truck meet-up and TheDailyCity.com Mobile Art Show, a monthly art show in a moving van. In 2010, he wrote about Hell's Kitchen Food Truck Bazaar and suggested someone bring the idea to Orlando. No one did. In January 2011, someone suggested we do an event like the ones in Miami. Mark did it on March 29, 2011: Orlando's first food truck event. Later that year, he had the idea to take the event on the road. Now it travels to 11 towns a month.
Other Stuff We Did in Our Spare Time:
- The Daily City blog - 15,978 Facebook, 9,691 Instagram, 1,753 E-Newsletter
- Pop up Shop | 1,375 guests | $18,000 in sales | Sept 3-7, 2014
- Taco Truck Taste Test
- Cardboard Art Festival 922 guests | $1,000 in sales | July 23-26, 2015
- Mobile Art Show
- Night Market
- Audience Choice Awards
- Meeting of the Orlando Minds
- Orlando Panel Series
- Orlando Indie Media Meetup
- Orlando Improv Festival
- ConfectionFest dessert festival
- Orlando Clandesdine pop up dinner
- Best Of Orlando
Awards for our blog "The Daily City"
- 2015 Best Local Blog, Florida Sunshine Blog Awards, 1st
- 2014 Best Local Blog, Orlando Magazine, 1st
- 2014 Critics Pick: Best Pop Up Shop, Orlando Weekly
- 2013 Best Local Blog, Orlando Magazine, 1st
- 2013 Best Local Blog, YELP, 1st
- 2013 Best Local Blog, Orlando Weekly, 1st
- 2012 Best Local Website, Orlando Magazine, 3rd
- 2012 Best Local Website, Orlando Weekly, 2nd
- 2012 Best Local Blog, Orlando Magazine, 2nd
- 2012 Best Local Blog, Orlando Weekly, 1st
- 2012 Best Local Blog, Orlando Sentinel, 2nd
- 2012 Best Local Twitter Feed, Orlando Weekly, 2nd
- 2011 Best Local Website, Orlando Magazine, 3rd
- 2011 Best Local Website, Orlando Weekly, 1st
- 2011 Best Local Website, Watermark Newspaper, 3rd
- 2011 Best Local Blog, Orlando Sentinel, 2nd
- 2011 Best Local Blog, Orlando Weekly, 2nd
- 2011 Best Local Blog, Watermark Newspaper, 1st
- 2010 Best Local Website of 2010, Orlando Weekly, 2nd
- 2010 Best Local Blog of 2010, Orlando Weekly, 1st
- 2010 Best Local Blog of 2010, Orlando Magazine, 3rd
- 2010 Critics Pick: Mobile Art Show, Orlando Weekly
- 2009 Best Local Blog, Orlando Weekly, 1st
- 2009 Best Local Arts Blog, Orlando Sentinel, 1st
- 2009 Best Local Blog, Orlando Sentinel, 3rd