June 18, 2026
How MyTools Helps You as a Food Truck Owner
A catalogue of the side tasks that surround running a food truck, each solved by a free in-browser tool: permits, menus, food photos, promo clips, and more.
Running a food truck is mostly food. Prepping the marinade at six in the morning, holding a line of forty hungry people at the lunch rush, plating a loaded fries box while the griddle behind you spits oil. Knowing your numbers down to the last propane refill. That is the job, and it is a good one.
The rest of it is paperwork and pixels. The health permit the city wants re-uploaded every renewal. The festival application that landed as a PDF form. The photo of your signature burger that the delivery app rejected for being too big. A fifteen-second clip for the Reel that announces tomorrow's pitch, shot wide when it needed to be vertical. The supplier price list trapped in a PDF you cannot sort.
Here are thirteen of those side tasks, with the free in-browser MyTools tool that handles each one. No installation, no account, no friction. These are the kind of online tools for food truck owners that clear the small stuff off your prep table so the cooking stays the main event.
One Menu Pack for the Caterer Who Asked
A wedding planner emails asking for your full offering: the regular menu, the allergen sheet, and the catering rate card. You have all three, but they are three separate PDFs, and sending three attachments looks scattered. You want one clean document with your name on it.
Drop the three files into Merge PDF, drag them into the order you want the reader to see, and download a single combined PDF. The menu leads, the allergens follow, the rates close it out. One attachment, one impression.
The Health Permit the City Portal Keeps Rejecting
Renewal season comes around and the city's vendor portal wants your food-handler certificate and your truck's fire-suppression inspection re-uploaded. You scanned both at full resolution and now each file is eleven megabytes, well over the portal's eight-megabyte cap. The upload spins and fails.
Compress PDF brings the file size down without turning your scan into mush. Drop the document in, let it re-encode the images inside, and download a version that slides under the cap. The text stays readable, the stamps stay legible, and the portal finally accepts it.
The Festival Application That Arrived as a Form
The summer street-food festival sends every vendor the same PDF application: business name, insurance number, power requirements, the menu you plan to serve. Printing it, filling it by hand, and scanning it back means finding a printer you do not own. You would rather not.
Fill PDF lets you type straight onto the form in your browser. Click each field, enter your details, tick the boxes for the power hookup you need, and download the completed file ready to email back. No printer, no blurry scan, no smudged ink on the line for your signature.
The Supplier Price List You Cannot Sort
Your produce wholesaler sends the weekly price sheet as a PDF: two hundred line items, prices in one column, units in another. You want to compare this week against last week and flag what jumped, but you cannot sort a PDF, and copying two hundred rows by hand is an evening you will not get back.
PDF to Excel pulls the table out and into a real spreadsheet with the rows and columns intact. Once it is an .xlsx file you can sort by price, highlight the items that climbed, and build your order around what is actually worth buying this week.
The Burger Shot With Half a Parking Lot in It
You photographed the loaded smash burger on the serving hatch and it looks great, except the right third of the frame is a stranger's car and a bin. The delivery app wants the food filling the square, not your pitch behind it.
Crop Image trims the frame to just the food. Drag the crop box around the burger, watch the live preview tighten, and download the cleaner shot. The fries that were cut off at the edge now sit in the centre where the hungry thumb scrolling past actually looks.
A Clean Product Shot for the Delivery App
The delivery platform wants your hero items on a plain background so the grid looks consistent across every restaurant. Your photo has the truck's chalkboard and a slice of sky behind the box, and reshooting against a white wall during service is not happening.
Remove background cuts the subject out and drops everything behind it, automatically. Upload the photo, let it isolate the box of birria tacos, and download a clean PNG with the background gone. Sit it on white, on your brand colour, or straight into the app's grid where it now matches the rest.
The Photo the Delivery App Says Is Too Big
You shot the new special on the latest phone and the file is fourteen megabytes. The delivery dashboard caps menu images at five. Every time you try to add the dish, the upload bar fills, stalls, and tells you the file is too large.
Compress Image brings the size down without a quality drop your customers will ever notice. Drop the photo in, and the file shrinks to a few hundred kilobytes while the tacos still look sharp. The dish goes live, and you move on to the next one before the lunch prep starts.
A Tiny Logo That Has to Print Across the Truck
The wrap shop needs your logo at full size to print it along the side of the truck, but the only file you have is the 400-pixel version from the old website. Blown up that small, it turns into a blocky mess on a six-foot panel.
Upscale Image runs AI super-resolution right in your browser to make the logo bigger without the stretch. Feed it the small file, pick 2x or 4x, and download a version sharp enough for the wrap. The same trick rescues the old menu-board graphic you want reprinted for this season.
The Promo Clip Shot Wide When It Needed to Be Tall
You filmed a fifteen-second clip of the cheese pull for tomorrow's pitch announcement, but you shot it landscape and the Reel needs vertical. Posted as is, it sits in a letterboxed strip in the middle of the screen with grey bars top and bottom.
Crop Video reframes the clip to the aspect ratio the platform wants. Pick the vertical preset, drag the frame to keep the cheese pull centred, and download a clip that fills the phone screen. The same file works for a TikTok or a Story without you reshooting a thing.
The Clip a Rival Truck Reposted Without Credit
That clip did well, well enough that another truck two cities over reposted it as their own. You want your handle on the footage so the next person who shares it carries your name along for the ride, even after the platform strips the metadata.
Watermark Video stamps your logo or handle onto every frame. Drag it to the corner, set how long it shows, give it a soft fade, and download. The brand now travels with the file wherever it gets re-shared, and a viewer can find the real truck behind the cheese pull.
The Walkthrough Too Big to Send the Team
You filmed a two-minute walkthrough of the new pitch layout to show your weekend crew where the prep station and the till will sit. The raw clip off your phone is ninety megabytes, too heavy to drop in the team chat without it choking.
Compress Video shrinks it under the cap. Pick a preset, drop the resolution a notch if you need to, and watch the projected size before you commit. The crew gets a clip that actually downloads on the patchy signal at the depot, and everyone shows up Saturday knowing where they stand.
The Jingle You Recorded but Cannot Post
You recorded a ten-second spoken announcement for next week's night-market spot, a quick "find us by the river, Friday from six" with a little music behind it. It is a clean MP3, but Instagram and YouTube will not accept a raw audio file. They want a video.
MP3 to MP4 wraps the audio in a video with a cover image of your choice. Upload the MP3, pick your truck photo or logo as the still, set the resolution, and download an MP4 ready to post. The announcement goes up as a Reel without you filming anything.
The QR Code for the Hatch
The lunch line moves faster when people order ahead or read the menu before they reach the front. You want a code on the serving hatch and the A-frame board that jumps straight to your online menu or the order page.
QR Code Generator turns the link into a code anyone can scan. Paste your menu URL, generate the code, and download a clean PNG or SVG sharp enough to print at any size. Stick it on the truck, the board, and the flyer, and the queue starts ordering before it reaches you.
Thirteen tasks: a permit, a price list, a burger shot, a promo clip, a code for the hatch. None of it is cooking. All of it lands in the same week as the early prep, the lunch rush, and the drive home with the griddle still warm in the back.
With the admin handled in a browser tab instead of software you had to buy, the hours go back where they belong: on the marinade, the line, and the regulars who already know which window to walk up to. That is the part you signed up for when you bought the truck.