Every outlet at its spot by opening time, in your colours, on your map.

A chai or snack brand with a cart network, a franchisee running kiosks, an ice-cream cart fleet, a food truck at an office park, a caterer with fixed drops. The food is made in one kitchen and sold from many spots, so every cart has to arrive stocked and looking like the brand.

Outlet cart · kiosk · truck · one selling point in the network
Amruttulya अमृततुल्य · Pune's tea stall
Kulfiwala कुल्फीवाला · the kulfi seller

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A yellow food truck lit up at night with a customer at its counter — Food truck, Bengaluru. Photo: Gpkp, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

The work today

What the job asks of people now.

Mini-truck food trucks, e-rickshaw food carts and push carts.

The brand is the vehicleFood truck, BengaluruPhoto: Gpkp, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A cart in the brand's coloursIce-cream cart, ChandigarhPhoto: Adam Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Chai brands sell franchises in cart, kiosk and food-truck formats.
Source: Restaurant India
One food-truck business moved off a large van because it was too heavy and impractical for the job.
Source: 91Trucks
Ice melts and stock spoils without a cold supply: one vendor says the ice is gone within 12 hours.
Source: Deccan Herald
A vehicle converted into a food truck needs approval for the change as well as a food licence.
Source: Open magazine
Since March 2026, FSSAI groups food trucks with street food vendors as petty food business operators.
Source: SCC Online, FSSAI amendment

A day on the route

One kitchen, two shifts, many spots

An illustrative chai-and-snacks cart in a brand's Pune fleet. Shift times come from similar operators; the loads are our estimates.

≈ 60 kg06:00
Load at the central kitchen: milk, water, snacks, cups.
3–5 km out06:30
Morning shift at an office-park gate. One cart fleet runs 6:30 to 10 am. Source
2 h 30 on 5 A10:30
Back to the kitchen: wash, restock, charge.
≈ 60 kg18:30
Evening shift. A Hinjewadi food truck parks 7 to 11 pm on weekdays. Source
≈ 15–25 km a day22:30
Back to the kitchen and lock up. Some Pune trucks trade later still. Source

Illustrative day, not a named brand.

Load check

One shift of chai and snacks

≈ 60 kg

Milk, two 10 L cans	≈ 25 kg
Water, 20 L	≈ 20 kg
Snacks, cups, sugar, tea	≈ 10 kg
Flasks and kettles	≈ 5 kg
CROC EV payload, plus 25% overload	80 / 100 kg

Assumptions

Milk at about 1.03 kg per litre (FAO); water at 1 kg per litre.
Can and stock weights are our estimates.
A vending body's own weight counts against the payload.
Anything that heats or freezes on board is decided in the build scope with our engineers.

The vehicle, second

CROC EV facts that matter here.

Every figure is from the CROC EV spec sheet.

Vending body: To order
Built to order on the same chassis, so each brand gets its own layout.
Tracking, geo-fencing: GPS
See every cart in the fleet, fence it to its spot, lock it remotely.
Range: 40–80 km
40 km per 2 kWh removable battery, 80 km with a second.
Charge, 5 A socket: 2 h 30
Charge at the kitchen between shifts.
Lockable box: 380 L
Stock stays locked in the box between shifts and overnight.
Certified e-cart: ARAI
A registered commercial vehicle. FSSAI and vending permissions are separate.

About CROC EV Spec sheet (PDF)

For mobile food businesses

Three reasons it fits the job.

Built for your format
Vending bodies built to order on one certified chassis.
A fleet you can see
GPS tracking, geo-fencing and remote lock on every vehicle.
Two shifts a day
40 km per removable battery, 80 km with a second, and 2 h 30 to charge on a 5 A socket.

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Other trades

More work CROC EV does

Sources

Photographs from Wikimedia Commons, credited under each one. They show the trade as it is today and are not Speedloop Auto customers.