We beat any competitor’s written quote
From fully catered experiences to dry hire options we bring fresh flavours, custom branding, and unforgettable culinary moments straight to your Melbourne event.
James brings 11 years of high end culinary experience and a background as a personal trainer. He started Smoothie Planet, which grew into a fleet of food trucks, and evolved it into Event Food Truck Hire, serving premium events across Australia. His hands on approach ensures every event is flawless, from setup to clean-up.
As demand grew, James returned to his culinary roots, building the brand into one of Australia’s most trusted providers of premium mobile catering. Today, James remains hands on, personally overseeing major events to ensure every client receives the flawless, high-quality service they deserve.
From corporate launches and festivals to weddings and large scale brand activations, our portfolio showcases the diversity and quality of our food truck services.
We provide everything you need for a successful event, from experienced chefs and baristas to premium, council certified mobile kitchens.
Prfect for festivals, sporting events, parties, corporate, public & private functions. We handle all staffing, setup, and logistics with a custom menu to suit your crowd.
Bring your brand to life with custom-wrapped food trucks, tailored sampling programs, and immersive pop-up experiences delivered nationwide for impactful campaign results.
Create a memorable and unique dining experience for your special day with our chef-led team, offering premium food, seamless service, and an unforgettable atmosphere for guests.
The ultimate solution for workplace celebrations and company events. We bring the food, the experience, and the fleet directly to you, transforming office car parks, warehouses, and outdoor venues into a festival-style dining experience. Forget cold sandwiches and uninspiring lunches whether you’re catering for 50 staff or 500, our high-volume kitchens serve gourmet burgers, toasties, and barista-made coffee with zero stress.
We aren’t just a booking agency. We are a hands-on, chef-led team that owns and operates our entire premium fleet.
Our founder is an experienced chef who oversees events. We hire only premium, qualified kitchen staff—no shortcuts.
We maintain our entire fleet of premium, council-certified food trucks and kitchens, guaranteeing quality and reliability.
Our head chefs have 10-15 years experience in award-winning Melbourne restaurants. We bring fine-dining quality to mobile catering.
Find a cheaper written quote for the same menu, date, and location? We'll beat it. No hidden fees, transparent pricing.
We’ve streamlined our process to make hiring a food truck as easy as possible.
Contact us via phone, email, or text. We'll discuss your event and send a clear, detailed quote.
Once you approve the quote, a 20% deposit secures your booking, and we begin planning your menu and logistics.
Our professional, fully-equipped team arrives on time, serves amazing food, and handles all cleanup. You don't lift a finger.
We help organisations hire a food truck in Melbourne for corporate catering, weddings, festivals, private parties and community events, and we also deliver brand activations including experiential marketing, mobile sampling, custom food truck wraps, and pop-up kitchens for product launches and PR stunts. Popular service areas include Melbourne CBD, Southbank, Docklands, Richmond, South Yarra, St Kilda, Carlton, Fitzroy
Yes we’re a full-service food truck catering team based in Melbourne, with regular work across Sydney and Queensland
We cater corporate events, office lunches, brand activations, product launches, festivals, community days, open days, weddings, private parties, school fetes, and film/TV shoots — if you can host it, we can hire a food truck for it.
Greater Melbourne & Victoria are our core service areas, with regular events and campaigns in Sydney and Queensland. For other regions, ask us — we may still be able to help or refer trusted partners.
Peak periods (spring–summer, public holidays, major events) fill quickly. If your date is fixed, enquire early — we can sometimes accommodate last-minute food truck hire in Melbourne/Sydney/Queensland if trucks are available.
Yes we handle office lunch catering, staff appreciation days, EOFY parties, Christmas party catering, and product launches. We can serve cashless/tap-and-go for public events or prepaid packages for private functions.
Yes — we love weddings, receptions, engagement parties and late-night bites. Popular choices include wood-fired pizza, burgers & sliders, and gelato/ice-cream truck hire. We coordinate with your wedding venue on access, timings and dietary needs.
Yes coffee, gelato/ice-cream, crepes, donuts and other dessert options can be booked standalone or as add-ons.
Yes espresso cart hire, mobile barista, and coffee service for conferences, offices, expos and weddings. Add hot chocolate, chai, iced coffee, or fresh smoothies (smoothie cart / smoothie bar) if you like.
Absolutely. We run brand activations including custom truck wraps with your logo, branded uniforms, collateral, and on-site teams for sampling, PR stunts, campus tours, and retail/store launches.
Yes — we deliver brand activations in Melbourne, Sydney and Queensland including custom truck wrap, on-brand uniforms, sampling, data capture, and PR stunt pop-ups. Share your KPI (reach, impressions, serves) and we’ll build the plan.
Allow time for artwork approval, print and installation — commonly 1–2 weeks depending on complexity and availability. We can also do partial wraps, magnetic panels or temporary decals if your timeline is tight.
In some cases, yes. We can arrange dry-hire food trucks or pop-up kitchens for film sets, photo shoots and TV productions — tell us your dates, bump-in/out, and power/parking needs.
Yes. Trucks in our network hold current public liability insurance and food-business compliance. We can provide certificates to venues on request.
Yes we regularly coordinate site access, service windows, power, waste, fire safety and queue management with venues and councils. For activations, we’ll advise on permits, bump-in/bump-out, and brand presentation to match your campaign KPIs.
Most of our food trucks are self-sufficient and bring their own generator — they typically just need about 6m × 3m of level space and safe vehicle access. If the venue prefers site power, a 10–15A outlet within reasonable distance works well (we’ll confirm cables/clearances). We’ll advise exact requirements for your chosen truck(s) during booking.
Often yes subject to loading-dock clearance and venue rules. Where a full truck can’t enter, we can propose mobile pop-ups, carts, or marquee setups to deliver the same great food experience.
Definitely. We’ll design a multi-truck line-up (e.g., burgers + Greek + dessert) scaled to your guest numbers, service time, and dietary needs. It’s a great way to add variety and speed up service for larger events.
We curate trucks for gourmet burgers & sliders, wood-fired pizza, paella, fish & chips, Middle-Eastern, finger food and more, with vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free and halal options available.
Yes alongside vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free and halal, we can plan nut-aware, dairy-free and coeliac-friendly menus. Tell us your requirements early so we assign the right truck.
It depends on cuisine and menu complexity; with a streamlined menu we can design for high throughput and add multiple trucks to meet peak demand.
Pricing varies by guest numbers, service time, menu/cuisine, staffing, travel, and any branding (for activations). We quote per-person packages or a minimum spend, tailored to your event.
Most events use a minimum spend or per-head pricing depending on guest count and menu. Share your numbers and we’ll recommend the best approach for value and service speed.
Please include event date/time, guest count, budget, venue address, event type, preferred cuisines, service start time, and how you heard about us (same as our enquiry form).
Fastest: submit our Get a Quote form with your date, guest count, location, cuisines, and any brand activation needs (e.g., custom truck wrap, mobile sampling).
Prefer to chat? Call James on 0401 999 960.
Email: info@eventfoodtruckhire.com.au
We manage events nationwide no matter your location, our team has the logistical experience to deliver. While we operate across Australia, our primary teams are based in Melbourne, Sydney, and Brisbane.
