Can you set up at C-mine or another mining site?

If the venue manager agrees, certainly. Mining sites usually have paved squares that suit a truck. We agree with the organisation in advance where we may stand, how we drive in and when set-up can begin, so everything fits the event’s running order.

How do you serve a team of three hundred employees?

A group that size gets the truck plus a second baking station. Because every pizza is cut into slices, everyone can quickly take something and come back for another flavour. Tell us whether people arrive in shifts or all at once, and we will build the rhythm around that.

Can the truck stand in the forests of the Hoge Kempen?

Forest tracks and sandy lanes inside the park itself are not suited to a heavy truck, but an event venue or estate on its edge often is, provided the access is paved. Send photos of the driveway and the parking spot, and we will see together what is feasible.

Do we have to provide wood or water ourselves?

No. Everything the oven and the work area need travels along: water, refrigeration, work surfaces and firewood. You only provide a level, reachable spot and, for a truck on public ground, the city’s go-ahead.

Hire a pizza food truck in Genk

On the squares of the former mining sites, between headframes and brick buildings, a pizza food truck with a roaring wood-fired oven is impossible to miss. In Genk we park it wherever your crowd gathers.

Industrial backdrop

Headframes, old mine buildings and wide squares: on a Genk mining site the truck naturally becomes part of the scenery, and a favourite photo spot.

Room to manoeuvre

Mining sites and business parks have wide, paved zones. The truck stands firmly there and the crowd can queue from several sides.

At the edge of the park

For events on the fringe of the Hoge Kempen National Park, we check access roads and ground beforehand, since sand and forest tracks call for caution.

Mining sites as event grounds

Genk had three coal mines: Winterslag, Waterschei and Zwartberg. Since they closed, several sites have been given a new lease of life. At C-mine in Winterslag the headframes still stand among the former mine buildings, and the square in front is regularly used for public and corporate events. Such a place seems made for a food truck.

The surface there is usually paved and level, and there is room to position the truck well: hatch towards the public, back towards the service side. At a public event the truck preferably stands so people can see it from different directions, with enough space for a queue that blocks neither an emergency exit nor a thoroughfare.

Where public space is involved, the organiser asks the city of Genk for the relevant permit. On private grounds, such as a company site or an event venue, an agreement with the owner is enough. Our technical sheet helps in both situations, because it gathers the details a venue manager or city department usually asks for.

Companies and large teams

Genk has remained an industrial city, with large business parks and logistics sites. For a staff party with hundreds of employees, everything revolves around speed. Pizza by the slice passes quickly from hand to hand, and past roughly 150 people a second baking station stands beside the truck. That keeps waiting times limited, even when a shift change sends everyone outside at once.

Our baking covers six to ten kinds of pizza, and there is always a vegetarian one among them. If you eat vegan or gluten-free, say so beforehand; we make those pizzas in a separated zone. In companies with many nationalities this attention to dietary wishes comes in handy, and an allergen list you receive in advance makes the HR team’s job lighter.

Independent, from wood to waste

The truck needs no water or power connection. Water, refrigeration, work surfaces and a stack of firewood travel with it, so we can work in a remote corner of a site too. A level, firm spot and a clear lane of 2.5 metres will do. At wooded locations, do watch for branches hanging low over the approach road.

Ninety minutes before service we arrive and bring the oven up to temperature with wood. Baking then runs for two hours, or a little over. The dough is a sourdough that has gone through a two- to three-day proof, topped with ingredients from Italy. Afterwards we tidy up and take the waste with us, so the square is ready for whatever comes next.