Food Truck Spotlight: The Wild Banana

Jessica Benson has  worked in the restaurant industry on and off throughout her life. She says she’s  “done everything from wash dishes, to bartend, to help manage. I’ve always had a love for eating healthy and organic food and I’ve especially always loved smoothies and smoothie bowls. I’ve also been an entrepreneur since I was 8! I was always trying to sell something I made to my neighbors.”

We asked her what inspired he to start a food truck?

“About a year or so before I came up with The Wild Banana. I started making fun, natural colored smoothie bowls and taking pics of them and putting them on social media. Several people made comments like.. “I would pay for one of those!” and “You could sell those!” I didn’t think too much about it until a trailer that already had windows in it came into my life for super cheap and I thought… I could build a food truck and sell my smoothies! I like to build things so I built most of the food trailer myself with some help from my father-in-law and my step-dad. I had no idea how much work it was actually going to be and I even thought about giving up at times but I kept thinking of the end result and eventually finished it! I kept thinking about how important it was to me to share healthy, tasty, beautiful food with people. I wanted to show everyone that healthy food can be fun and tasty! And of course it’s nice to work for myself and continue my dream of being an entrepreneur.”

Check out The Wild Banana Menu:

We asked Jessica what her best selling item was:

“Oh man! That’s a tough one. I feel like it changes but right now I would say The Brazil Bowl and The Blue Pacific Smoothie. The Brazil Bowl is a little more like the traditional Açaí bow that people have heard of and it has so much good stuff on it. You have the açaí base, then granola, chocolate, peanut butter, blueberries, strawberries, pineapple, chia seeds, and coconut! YUM! The Blue Pacific is a smoothie made with pineapple, mango, banana, blue spirulina(an algae used for color), and honey.”

Jessica wants people to know she has “a passion for making high quality, organic, healthy food that’s fun and super colorful! I want my business to be fun for everyone.  I also don’t use any single use plastic! We only use biodegradable containers to help the Earth. “