Brisbane Food Truck Historical Booking Records

Brisbane City Council provides historical food truck booking data from its Brisbane Food Trucks website initiative. The dataset includes past bookings categorized as Council premium site, ad hoc drive-up, and private property bookings. The data is under review following a website update in June 2025.

Use Cases

• Analyze booking frequency and patterns across the three booking types (Booking, Drive up booking, Private booking) to understand operator site preferences.
• Model temporal trends in food truck activity using historical booking dates and types.
• Assess the distribution of food truck operations between Council-managed premium sites and operator-selected ad hoc or private sites.

Strengths

• Data originates from the authoritative Brisbane City Council open data platform.
• Explicitly categorizes bookings into three distinct types based on site location and management.

Limitations

• The dataset's API and functionality may be degraded as it is under review post-June 2025 update.
• Specific data volume (rows), features (columns), and sample structure are unknown, limiting immediate analytical utility.

Provenance

Source

Brisbane City Council ([email protected])

Collection Method

Collected from the Brisbane Food Trucks website (bnefoodtrucks.com.au), where operators created profiles and managed bookings.

Time Range

Historical (past bookings), specific date range not provided.

Freshness

Metadata was last updated in March 2026, but the underlying historical data's temporal coverage is unspecified.

Geography

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia