Yallternative Eats

10/17/2026

🖤 Our Last Hurrahs 🖤

I’ve been trying to figure out how to put this into words, and truthfully, I’m still not sure I can.

Yallternative Eats has been so much more than just a food truck to us. It’s been long days, sleepless nights, missed family time, lessons learned the hard way, and memories I wouldn’t trade for anything.

We’ve had some incredible highs and some really difficult lows. There were days we questioned everything, days we wanted to throw in the towel, and days that reminded us exactly why we started.

Running a small business is hard. Sometimes loving something with everything you have still doesn’t make it easy to keep going. And that’s a hard reality to accept.

As we prepare for our last few hurrahs, I find myself feeling a little bit of everything. Sadness, relief, gratitude, and pride. Because regardless of how things turned out, we built something from nothing. We took a chance on ourselves, and for that, I’ll always be proud.

To everyone who ever ordered a burger, shared a post, recommended us to a friend, showed up at an event, or simply believed in what we were trying to create — thank you. You may never know how much those little things meant to us.

We still have a few opportunities left to serve you, and I hope we’ll get to see some familiar faces before this chapter comes to an end.

This isn’t the ending I imagined when we started, but that doesn’t mean the journey wasn’t worth it.

From our family to yours, thank you for being part of our story. 🖤

With love,
Yallternative Eats

10/16/2026

Don’t forget to cast your vote!! 😍 3 days away from seeing the results.

If you love us, vote for us. ❤️

Official 2026 Community Voting Awards Platform for Springfield, MO. Where the community votes for their favorites every year.

10/09/2026

UPDATE
We will not be at hotel of terror tonight due to a mix up.

We will be at the pocket park tonight until 2am 😍 off south street across from Finnegan’s

10/09/2026

🖤 An Announcement We Never Wanted to Make… 🖤

It breaks our hearts to announce that these will be the final two weekends of Yallternative Eats. Our last day of operation will be Saturday, October 17th.

After everything we’ve poured into this business, this is an incredibly difficult decision to make.

Unfortunately, life has thrown our family another unexpected curveball. On top of being in a wheelchair, the transmission in our family vehicle has blown, leaving us without the reliable transportation we need for our three children. With everything we’ve faced this year, we’ve reached a point where we have to make an incredibly painful choice: sell the business we’ve worked so hard to build so we can purchase a dependable vehicle for our family.

We never imagined it would come down to this.

Yallternative Eats has been so much more than a food trailer to us. It’s been years of hard work, late nights, sacrifices, creativity, and a whole lot of love. We’ve built something we’re genuinely proud of, and saying goodbye to it is absolutely heartbreaking.

🖤 YALLTERNATIVE EATS WILL OFFICIALLY BE FOR SALE! 🖤

We’re open to two possibilities:

🤘 Purchase the entire Yallternative Eats brand and business! For someone who loves what we’ve created and wants to continue our legacy, we’re willing to offer our established brand, recipes, and one full year of training and guidance to help you carry it forward.

🚚 Purchase the food trailer separately! If you’ve dreamed of starting your own food business, this could be your opportunity to build something of your own.

We would absolutely love to see Yallternative Eats continue under someone who shares our passion, but we also understand that someone may want to take the trailer in an entirely new direction.

To everyone who has supported us, eaten our food, shared our posts, attended our events, or believed in our crazy little dream: thank you. You’ve helped us create something special, and we’ll never forget that.

We’re extremely sad that this is how our chapter ends, but right now, our family has to come first.

Please come see us one last time before October 17th. Let’s make these final two weekends ones to remember. 🖤

If you’re seriously interested in purchasing the business or trailer, please send us a private message.

Once Yallternative, always Yallternative. 🤘🖤

10/9
Hotel of Terror - 7pm-9pm
Pocket Park 11pm-2am

10/10
Pocket Park 9pm-2am

10/15
Bear Village 6pm-9pm

10/17

Battle Field Mall Trunk or Treat 5pm-7pm
Pocket Park 9pm-2am

10/03/2026

🤠 Y’ALL READY FOR A HOEDOWN? 🤠

Grab your boots and come on out for a night of good music, good drinks, and a whole lot of fun!

👢 Line Dancing
🍹 Drinks
🎟️ Silent Auction
🎶 Music
🤠 And more!

Bring your friends, hit the dance floor, bid on some awesome goodies, and enjoy a good old-fashioned night out.

09/24/2026

🍁 Stars Hollow Autumn Festival Trivia Night
📍 215 W. Commercial St.
📅 Tonight Thursday, Sept. 24
⏰ 6–9 PM
✨ Trivia , Prizes , Yallternative Eats, Coffee , Nostalgia

Grab your Lorelai to your Rory and come see if you’ve got what it takes to survive a night in Stars Hollow. 🍂☕️

Oy with the poodles already. see you tonight!

09/18/2026

Tonight on Commercial Street

We’ve got Rob Davis & Greg Baumgart playing live at American Heritage On Commercial from 5:30–8:30 PM, plus Yallternative Eats rolling in with the food truck.

Come grab some food, listen to some live music, shop around, and hang with us for the evening.

Tonight, Sept. 18 | 5:30–8:30 PM

American Heritage
303 E Commercial Street
Springfield, MO 65803

See y’all tonight.

Want a food truck request? Drop a tag in the comments on who you want to eat from next!

09/17/2026

We drove to Tulsa, OK to meet with top vendors in the Midwest to bring you a new and elevated menu to our food truck. We can’t wait to show you what’s coming next. 🖤

09/14/2026

LAST YEAR: SILVER.
THIS YEAR: WE’RE COMING BACK FOR MORE.

Nominations for CommunityVotes Springfield 2026 are officially closed, and now we wait to see who moves on to the voting round.

Last year you guys helped Yallternative Eats take SILVER in Food Trucks, and after the week we’ve had… seeing our name back on that list means a whole lot.

Downtown may be closed, but Yallternative Eats isn’t.

The truck is rolling. We’re going on tour. And we’re just getting started.

Stay tuned for voting + where we’re pulling up next.