User Reviews

We've watched every season and all were enjoyable. The show usually creates a level playing field for Food Truck teams to compete.

Unfortunately, season 15 was anything but a level playing field. Most episode contests were based in Southern California. The winner, Señoreata, was the only team from Southern California. Turns out, they had a loyal local following that pushed them to the top of every competition. I felt bad for the other teams who could never compete with the deck stacked against them.

The show used to travel the country. I understand the cost of doing this may not be viable any longer as ratings drop. But, if you insist on filming all episodes in one location, you can't allow locals to compete.

GFTR and Tyler Florence both have staying power or it wouldn't be "running" this long. Always, an enjoyable show for family viewing. Wish they would up the grand cash prize to 100K instead of 50K with inflation rising and all. The melodrama in season 15 is a little over the top!! Runaway, catty, and drag queen contestants, namely.

Las Vegas is in a completely different state than the Gold Coast so why did they go there. Why not San Francisco instead? Or is San Francisco not on the Gold Coast? Locations aside, this is an amazing show.

This series is a lot like Tyler Florence himself. I started out liking him as a chef, but the more I saw his smug smile, the less I liked him. Like Tyler, The Great Food Truck Race has worn out it's welcome.

To start off, the series now betrays its original purpose. Originally, the contestants got 50k AND their food trucks, allowing them to start their new business with some cash. Now, I'm sure it was for budgetary reasons why they don't get the truck anymore, but now the contestants aren't necessarily even interested in starting their own food trucks, they just want the cash.

That's all well and good motivation to play, wanting money, it's a game show after all, but this "game show" mentality of the contestants means they don't even feature professional cooks anymore. Some of the contestants are very amateurish.

But all that would be fine, if it wasn't for how the game is now played. The stupid mini games the contestants play in this game used to be to teach them some vital food truck cooking skill, now it's just to make them look foolish and to waste time. Breaking keys out of a block of ice has nothing to do with cooking.

Oh, and to make it even more obvious this show has nothing to do with actual food competition now, they send the contestants to a ridiculous location like ALASKA IN THE WINTER. Food trucks simply do not operate in Alaska in the winter, why are these people being put thru this?

And regularly contestants are now given trucks that break down almost immediately, or catch on fire because they are dirty from the last time they were used and no one from production cleaned them. Seriously, why is this the contestants fault? The loser from episode 1 of season 13 literally lost because the truck was so dirty it caught fire. That dirt wasn't from this season, so that means the producers completely kneecapped those poor people who had obviously never run a food truck (or any other type of restaurant) before. And then Tyler smugly laughs and says "well that's why you always gotta clean heh heh". F you Tyler.

I think Tyler has become cynical enough to hate his own contestants and tortures them for his own amusement. That is the only explanation I have left as to why this series still exists.

Congratulations Easy Vegan... They played the game with integrity and passion. The food looked delicious and seemed to enjoyed by all. They had a good time with all the people as well as the other food trucks. Great season with a little switch mixing pros with regular folks. Congratulations Easy Vegan and best of luck in your future. Good mix of pros and regular people running food trucks. The Great Food Truck Race is smart enough to know they have to keep it interesting and switch it around each season to keep the show interesting. A great Sunday night show and so happy Easy Vegan won and so happy I finally have enough characters to end and submit my review!!!!

The early seasons were awesome. I miss the cross-country seasons where the playing field was more level. The last two seasons seem more political driven with them being hosted only in Southern California and LA. It definitely feels like Tyler and the producers play favorites. I'm not interested in finishing the newest season now that all rules are out the window. Khana should not be allowed to fire a member of her team and then bring back a chef from a previous food truck. It's an extremely unfair advantage to other teams. How many other teams knew that was an option when they couldn't get along?

My husband and I faithfully watch The Great Food Truck race. We love how the teams put their lives and families on hold to take a chance on their future. Sure there is some drama each season; but we look past that and cheer on the teams. We were truly DISAPPOINTED for the first time that the producers allowed Khana to cheat this year. There is no other description but cheating. Not only was the firing of the original team member completely unprofessional( but brought back a previous team member. I have never written a comment about a show; but Food Network lost 2 viewers today. We wish the best to remaining team members; but we believe Khana should be disqualified.

They lost me for good this week. The show has always had its ups and downs. One of its biggest issues has really been the obvious extremely low budget, which has gotten worse over the years. It is a season long competition show with only $50k as the prize. One episode of your average daytime gameshow has that. On top of that, the contestants are given trucks that are in poor condition and even break down regularly, sometimes on the very first episode of the season.

Some people complain about the various questionable contestants they have featured, although I have mostly been able to accept that. It is a TV show after all. I continued to watch because I love food shows, and some of the creativity on this show has been great over the years.

But I can't handle them just openly allowing a team to effectively cheat. They let a team fire a member and then inexplicably let them bring ANOTHER previous eliminated team's member on to replace the fired worker. In the past when a team lost a member (not by choice) they had to go on with only two. Forget for a moment that the "differences" with the previous cook were almost completely the fault of the truck's lead and her nitpicking micromanagement. Regardless of that they gave a team an open advantage by letting them hand pick someone new. The minute that was announced we turned it off. Don't even care what happens.