Food Truck Flyers

They cost pennies once you order a real run and fit anywhere from a pocket to a poster board. Every flyer style sits on flyers printing, and the full mobile-vendor lineup is in the food truck printing collection; the choices for this flyer follow below.

A set of 50 costs $39.54, enough to hand out through one lunch rush. A full box for a festival weekend costs far less per flyer than that first set, and the tiers below give the total at each count.

What Are Food Truck Flyers

Food truck flyers are full-color flyers printed for mobile food vendors, in 9 sizes from a 4.25" x 5.5" handbill up to 11" x 25.5", on any of 7 stocks. Trucks reach for them because a printed sheet does what a chalkboard cannot: it leaves your window with the customer. Print a menu with prices to hand out while people wait, a grand-opening announcement, a card that tells festival-goers where you park, or a coupon that brings a first-timer back. Because a flyer is cheap and easy to pass out, it earns its place in every takeout bag. For the classic marketing sheet, the Standard Flyers cover it, and the food truck version sits right beside it, built for vendors on wheels.

Food truck flyer design examples and templates

Four trucks, four different jobs for the same sheet of paper. Use these as layout starting points, then swap in your own menu and photography.

• Taco truck, 4.25 x 5.5 handbill. Photograph across the top third, six items and prices in two columns underneath, tonight's location and closing time along the bottom edge. Small enough to pass through the service window with the order, so the customer walks away holding the menu they just ordered from.
• Coffee cart, 5.5 x 8.5. Drink list set as a single readable column, sizes and prices right-aligned, a loyalty line at the foot and the morning parking spots on the back. This one lives on office noticeboards, so the back matters as much as the front.
• Dessert truck, square or 8.5 x 11. One dessert photographed large enough to be recognized across a festival lawn, the flavor rotation as a short list, and a QR code sized for a phone held at arm's length. Full color both sides, because the second side becomes the event schedule.
• BBQ truck, 11 x 17 up to 11 x 25.5. Plate photography, the by-the-pound pricing block, the catering line and a weekly stop list. Printed at the large end it works as a board poster at the pitch, not as a handout, so it stays legible from the back of the queue.

If you would rather start from a layout than from a blank page, the design template flow linked further down this page opens a flyer layout you can drop your menu, photos and hours into before you order, and the same artwork then prints across any of the 9 sizes.

What Size Should a Food Truck Flyer Be

Pick the size by where the flyer ends up. A 4.25" x 5.5" handbill is the pocket-sized pass-out you hand to everyone walking by. A 4" x 9" rack size or a 5.5" x 8.5" half sheet gives a full menu room for prices and photos. Step up to 4.25" x 11" or larger, all the way to 11" x 25.5", when the flyer doubles as a poster taped to the truck or a board at an event. The chart below lists all 9 sizes, both finishes and the 7 stocks. If you are also weighing a shaped cut, the Circle Flyers and Die-Cut Flyers break the rectangle for a flyer that stands out on a crowded table.

The checklist, the stock and the print sides below decide how a truck flyer works at the curb.

What to put on a food truck flyer

A flyer handed out at a curb gets about four seconds of attention. Work down this checklist and cut anything that does not earn its place.

• Three signature items with prices. Not the whole menu. The three dishes you want to be known for, priced, so the reader knows what they are queueing for and what it costs before they join the line.
• This week's stops and times. Day, place, from and until. A truck that moves has to publish where it lands, and this is the line people photograph.
• A QR code to the live location map. The printed schedule ages, the link does not. Point it at the page you actually update, test it printed rather than on screen, and leave clear space around it.
• Your social handles. One or two, written exactly as they are spelled, because that is where the schedule changes get posted between print runs.
• The catering line. One sentence and a phone number or email. Private events and office lunches are the highest-value order a truck takes, and they never come from someone standing in the queue unless the flyer told them it was possible.

Which stock survives grease, damp hands and a windy pitch

Seven stocks are available, and two of them are what food trucks actually run.

• 100# gloss text is the coated handout. The gloss surface sheds a fingerprint and a grease smear instead of drinking it in, which is what you want on a sheet passed over a service window with the food. It comes off a stack easily, and it does not take a pen, so nothing gets scribbled on it by hand later.
• 14pt uncoated cover with 30% recycled content is the heavy card. It has enough weight to stay flat on a table in a breeze rather than folding over itself, it survives a damp hand without going limp, and it takes a pen or a stamp if you want to write a daily special or punch a loyalty mark. Uncoated fiber does absorb grease, so a spot from a plate stays as a mark, which is the trade for the weight and the recycled content.

The short version: coated 100# gloss text for anything handed out with food, 14pt uncoated cover for anything that sits on a table, a board or a counter. Both take full color on the front with a blank back or on both sides, and both can be finished with a High-Gloss UV Coating if the sheet needs to shrug off more than a thumbprint.

Pick a stock that survives the window

A lightweight text stock keeps a big giveaway run cheap and easy to fold, while a heavier cover gives a menu real backbone so it holds up at a greasy service window. The default keeps it clean and cheap, a High-Gloss UV Coating makes food photos shine, and there is a 14pt uncoated cover made with 30% recycled content for a truck that leans eco. When you want a premium, weather-ready feel, the Silk Flyers add a soft-touch coating across the whole order.

Put both sides to work

Choose 4/4 for full color on both sides and your menu sits on one side while catering, hours, and a coupon go on the other. If you only need one side, 4/0 prints a full-color front with a blank back and keeps a giveaway run cheaper.

Design it without a designer

Start from a layout in our design templates and change the colors, copy, and photos in the online editor. Give the top third to one food photo and the truck name, the way the taco truck handbill above does, and keep the prices and the next stop large enough to read at the window.

If your artwork is finished, skip the editor and download a press-ready blank. Each blank flyer layout in our blank templates library is built at the real trim size with the 1/8" bleed and safe margin already drawn in, so your design stays clear of the cut. Take the size that matches your order below, place your art, and upload.

How Much Do Food Truck Flyers Cost

Food truck flyers start at $39.54 per 50, or $57.11 for 100, and the per-flyer price falls across 25 tiers toward 25,000, so the size of the run sets the unit cost. A 500-flyer run is $108.75, roughly 22 cents each, and 1,000 flyers land at $126.32, about 13 cents each. Set a season's count on the slider below; it shows the total and the per-flyer cost at that count, and the point where one more step up barely moves the budget.

How Do Food Truck Flyers Compare to the Rest of the Range

Food truck flyers are the value pick when you want a printed menu in every hand. If you are weighing a folded menu, a shaped cut, or a heavier stock, the chart below sets food truck flyers beside those siblings with the starting price of each. For a menu that folds down small, the Folded Flyers add panels, and the Business Flyers keep it simple.

See How a Finished Food Truck Flyer Lands

The gallery below shows flyers our customers printed in our own plant, across different sizes, stocks, and finishes. Look at how each one sets its prices and its stops, the two lines people read at the window. Tap any print to see it larger.

How Fast Can You Get Food Truck Flyers

Food truck flyers print on a 3 business day standard turnaround, and when an event sneaks up you can move that to 2-day, Next-Day, or even Same-Day production. Each step buys back time for a set percentage on top of the base price, so you only pay for speed when you actually need it. Same-Day orders need to be approved by noon EST to ship that day. Before it prints, a free online proof or a next-day hardcopy proof lets you confirm the menu and prices are right, and 99.8% of 4OVER4 orders arrive on time with 82% shipping early.

See the Rest of Our Flyers

Food truck flyers are one stop in a much larger lineup, and you can scan the full print product range any time. The folded, shaped and heavier flyers each show their own starting price on flyers printing and link to their own product page.

Print Your Food Truck Flyers Today

At 4OVER4.COM, quality comes first, and it's backed by a satisfaction guarantee and 25+ years of printing since 1999. Whatever size, stock, or finish you pick, these flyers are built to get your menu into a hand and your truck into a line. Need them before a weekend event? Our Same-Day production keeps you covered. Print your food truck flyers today.