The eleventh season of the American reality television series The Great Food Truck Race entitled The Great Food Truck Race: Holiday Hustle hosted by Tyler Florence began airing on the Food Network on November 27, 2019. It concluded on December 18, 2019, after airing a four episode season, making it the shortest season in the series history. It was announced on October 16, 2019, to be a special holiday-based season of the series. Five truck teams competed against each other in food-based competitions to be the last remaining team, with one team being eliminated each week.
Format On the first day, five new truck teams meet with host Tyler Florence. Each team receives a brand new food truck and seed money to buy necessities to operate their truck. Over the course of a weekend, they must attempt to sell as much food as possible to make profit. Along with selling food, the teams must also participate in a variety of challenges which can either help or harm them by having positive or negative responses based on the challenge results. Oftentimes teams either receive immunity from elimination, money toward their total, or extra selling time. The team with the least amount of money at the end of each weekend is eliminated from the competition and is required to return the keys to their truck before leaving. The last team remaining is allowed to keep their food truck and receives .
Truck teams Team name Team members Hometown Cuisine Place Big Stuff Brad Brutlag,Eddie Cumming,Mike O'Neill Parker, Colorado Stuffed food 1 Creole Queens Tryshell Robertson,Raven Robertson,Ariana Mitchell New Orleans, Louisiana Louisiana Creole 3 Lia's LUMPIA Spencer Hunter,Tania Garcia,Benelia Santos-Hunter San Diego, California Filipino, especially lumpia 2 Magical Mystery Heroes Matt Williams,Hannah Schulz,Chris Williams Fairfield, Ohio Comfort food 4 Slapshot Annika Johnson,Michaela Johnson,Sheila Johnson Bemidji, Minnesota Gourmet concession food 5
Episodes
Elimination history and results +Food Truck Elimination Table Truck Week 1Wolfeboro, NH Week 2Portsmouth, NH Week 3Killington, VT & Rutland, VT Week 4Newport, RI Big Stuff 4th ($1,437) 2nd ($2,028) 1st ($4,528) WINNERS Lia's LUMPIA 1st ($2,568) 1st ($2.763) 2nd RUNNERS-UP Creole Queens 2nd ($2,335) 3rd ($1,837) 3rd Magical Mystery Heroes 3rd ($1,654) 4th ($1,700) Slap Shot 5th ($1,367) Team that won The Great Food Truck Race. Team who came in first that week. Team that won money towards their till that week. Team that won a non-monetary challenge for that week. Team eliminated for that week.
Notes : Slap Shot held off the Turkey Challenge until Day 2, while the other four teams used the turkey on Day 1. : Dollar amounts were not announced, but the difference between the bottom two was $183.
Production Food Network announced the season as part of their holiday programming on October 16, 2019.
Filming Filming for the first episode began on February 18, and ended on February 21, 2019, in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire. The second episode began filming in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, on February 24, 2019, at Shapleigh Middle School, and continued on February 25 in Market Square. Episode three filmed at the Killington Ski Resort Snowshed Base Area in Killington, Vermont, on March 2, 2019, before moving to Rutland, Vermont on March 3. The final episode began filming on March 9, 2019, with a special kick-off event at Newport Vineyards in Newport, Rhode Island, the season then concluded filming on March 10.
References
External links
List of season 11 episodes on Food Network