The Great Food Truck Race Finale

In the final lap of the Great Food Truck Race, the last two trucks remaining, California’s Lime Truck and Ohio’s Hodge Podge Truck head to Miami for the ultimate showdown and a chance at $100,000. The episode kicked off with Tyler Florence giving each team $500 to buy ingredients, with the ultimate goal of making $15,000. The first team to reach this mark would then race to South Point Park to claim a briefcase with their cash, and win the Great Food Truck Race.

Hodge Podge immediately began to sue their Miami connections to find a food truck meet up spot, while Lime Truck was expecting a Truck Stop challenge first to give them time to prepare their plan of attack in Miami, but was instead thrown for a loop when the elimination challenge immediately kicked off. Just as the trucks begin to get settled, Tyler calls them for a Speed Bump. The trucks are towed and the teams can only get them back with $200, which they must earn somehow without the truck. The teams kept their ingredients however, and Hodge Podge was able to sell some high end plates while Lime Truck attempted to offer lessons in cooking mussels, taking much longer to earn their truck back.





The next morning the Truck Stop challenge was presented, with both teams having to catch a fish in thirty minutes and then cook a dish with it in thirty minutes. Though challenging, both teams managed to catch their fish, and though Hodge Podge’s was cooked perfectly, Chef Chris used too many ingredients, while Lime Truck’s was just right. Lime Truck won $1500, helping them out of the hole they found themselves in after the first day of competition. At the end of the day the teams were notified of a second Speed Bump, both teams would have to reopen as a dessert truck for two hours in the morning. Both teams were extremely close to the $15000 mark by now, and Lime truck headed downtown to sell their desserts, while Hodge Podge stayed in the parking lot of the wholesale store they bought their ingredients from. Both teams sold well in these spots, though editing made it to difficult to tell how close the trucks actually were to each other in sales. In the end both trucks raced to see Tyler for their briefcase, but Lime truck arrived first winning the $100,000 prize. Though Hodge Podge only lost by a few minutes, they admitted to feeling like winners anyway.

Congratulations to Lime Truck for dominating this season of the Great Food Truck Race, and to all the other trucks as well for providing excitement and competition throughout the season.