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Eat N’ Greet, a food truck gathering, will come to Lowe’s in Morristown March 4 from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.

The event will feature several food trucks from all over the area serving everything from shaved ice to smoked BBQ.

The event comes from Bill Hall who is the owner of Grill Billy Smoke, a BBQ food truck and catering business.

Hall created this event as a way to help spread the word about local food trucks and help the community get a taste of their home cooked meals.

“For me, seeing the struggles we’ve faced I want to be a match maker and help people find food that they like,” Hall said. “Through this event we want to help grow the audience of the many amazing food trucks we have in the area.”

“People love having options and we want to have as many food trucks in one place and have the community out to see what Morristown has to offer.”

Hall explained the realities of owning a food truck and the how difficult it is to operate.

“My food truck has been open for 6 years and I have seen the struggles of other foods trucks.

“A lot of people get into it and don’t realize the work that goes into it and the highs and lows,” Hall said.

“The sad part is most of the food trucks around here have some of the best food you’ll ever eat because the person who owns it is cooking the food and pouring their passion and love into the food and are blessing the community with their talents, but everyone thinks that they’ll just park their truck on the side of the road and people will flock to them and that’s not the reality of this business.”

The gathering will be held in the parking lot of Lowe’s in Morristown, a new supporter of local food trucks.”

“Prior to COVID to set up a truck at Lowe’s you had to go through a third party and pay a large fee. Well, after the pandemic Lowe’s got a new vice president and he changed the rules and all of the sudden food trucks were welcomed at all the Lowe’s I’m aware of,” Hall said.

“We’ve been setting up at Lowe’s for a while now and it has the largest space available so we talked with the manager and he said he that he would accommodate us and the rest was history.”

The event currently has 15 food trucks signed up. However, the number is growing rapidly.

“We originally said we would have 15, but I talked with Lowe’s to say we might have 20 because more people keep reaching out who are interested in setting up,” Hall said.

“I’ve also had people who do music offer to come out, so there’s no telling how much bigger it will get once the day arrives.”

There are several food trucks that serve the same products, but he wants to remind the community this isn’t a competition but a chance to bring everyone together.

“We serve BBQ at my food truck and another BBQ food truck just called asking to join and I said of course because somebody might like his over mine.”

“It’s about trying to get everyone together at one spot and have the community come out and support our foo trucks.”

Joe is encouraging all trucks to create an affordable sampler to allow the community to try as many trucks as possible.

“The support so far as been amazing.” He said. “We actually have been asked to do something similar like this downtown in the future.”