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TAUNTON, Mass. (WBZ NewsRadio) — The culinary department at Taunton High School has a new food truck, made possible through a $75,000 grant from Bristol County Savings Bank. Students expressed their gratitude Friday by serving lunch to the bank’s employees.
Taunton High School’s Culinary Director Brendan Johnson said the truck is a classroom on wheels.
“These kids are learning how to run it, operate it, plan menus for it, clean it [and learn] what the strengths of running a business off a food truck are and what the pitfalls are,” Johnson said.
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The students served up a unique menu, with offerings like egg rolls with blue cheese drizzle, cheese quesadillas with lime and loaded fries.
The fries also had a secret ingredient in the recipe that gave them that extra kick.
“[It’s] a special kind of seasoning that I can’t tell you,” senior Brandon Molina told WBZ NewsRadio.
Senior Jehieliz Villegas was running the register and talked about getting a wide range of on-the-job experience.
“So, I get that one-on-one interaction with the customers,” she said. “With the regulars it's kind of fun but with people that are new, they rush [the orders].”
Johnson said that while it can be stressful at times, his goal is to try and make it fun.
“It’s basically a happiness mobile. Happiness on wheels,” he said.
WBZ NewsRadio’s Suzanne Sausville (@WBZSausville) reports.
