My sister sent me some info on this new food truck business opened close to her place.

http://www.emcnortheast.ca/201...it+local+in+Stirling

EMC Business -Stirling - Josh Labelle admits it's not your average hamburger, but that was never his intention.

After working as an executive chef in wineries in Prince Edward County as well as the Loyalist Golf and Country Club, Labelle recently changed course and opened Fatty Bo Batty's where his burgers are suddenly in hot demand. And while it looks the part, he insists the retrofitted red trailer built to his own kitchen specs is not a chip truck. "It's a food truck," Labelle says of the mobile restaurant that opened two weeks ago at the corner of West Front Street and the Stirling-Frankford Road. And the food, he adds, is made from quality ingredients that are "as local as possible."

With a menu that includes half-pound hamburgers, poutine, gourmet grilled cheese, pulled pork and smoked meat sandwiches Labelle, who operates Fatty Bo Batty's with his wife Christina, has sourced out several local suppliers. Proteins, he says, are easy, but vegetables are another matter. So using locally raised beef and pork and locally produced cheeses he also intends to use other homegrown produce, including potatoes, when in season.

Exactly what transpires, he says, will depend on how the summer goes. "The beauty is it's a trailer," Labelle notes. "I can move it."

Although he says times are tough in the culinary trades, with "no room in the economy for (more) fine dining restaurants," Labelle bristles at the thought of frozen French fries or preformed patties. Fresh, he says, means better. And making fast food using quality ingredients available close to home seemed only natural to him.

And the idea has quickly paid off. In their opening days, which included a stint at the renamed Farmtown Park during the weekend tourism fair, the response has been excellent, Labelle says, where on more than one occasion they ran out of hamburgers.

"We've done more than a hundred burgers a day," he says, adding he intends to adjust hours as required and remain open as long as the lineups continue. "I'll be out here in December if people are still coming," he says. If demand is there, Labelle also expects other dishes will be added to the menu in future. And at Fatty's there's also room for greater excess, he says. The double burger offered, "it's as big as your head."

Fatty Bo Batty's is currently open from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday to Thursday, until 8 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, and until 4 p.m. on Sunday.