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Pitch Spot sends food truck operators a daily 6 am email with the #1 spot to park today — based on local events, weather, and real foot traffic data.
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Fri, Mar 20 • 6:00 AM
Your Daily Spot — Austin, TX
Your #1 Spot Today: South Congress
Rodeo Austin weekend + post-SXSW tourist surge
South Congress Ave (SoCo)
Rodeo Austin (Travis Co. Expo Center) runs through March 28 and tonight features a Flatland Cavalry concert. Post-SXSW visitors are still in town through the weekend. SoCo’s sidewalk traffic is projected 40% above a normal Friday.
- ▶Peak hours: 11 AM – 2 PM (lunch), 5 PM – 9 PM (dinner + Rodeo crowd)
- ▶Why it ranks #1: Rodeo Austin pulls 10K+ nightly • SoCo foot traffic still elevated from SXSW • Perfect 73°F patio weather
- ▶Nearby events: Boggy Creek Farm open 8 AM – 1 PM • Robert Plant @ ACL Live tomorrow (early arrivals downtown tonight)
Backup: Rainey Street
Friday-night bar district with consistent 8 PM – midnight traffic. Post-SXSW crowd gravitates here. Strong late-night play if SoCo winds down after dinner.
🚫 Skip today: UT Campus / The Drag
Spring Break — most students are gone until March 22. Foot traffic on Guadalupe is down ~60%.
Pitch Spot — Daily location intelligence for food truck operators
Data sources: Austin Events Calendar, Rodeo Austin, SXSW, NWS forecast, Google Popular Times
The problem
You’re losing money every day you guess wrong.
Wasted mornings
You spend an hour every day scrolling local Facebook groups and checking weather apps, trying to figure out where to go.
Missed events
A 5K, a tailgate, a campus festival — you hear about them after the fact. The taco guy who showed up early cleaned out.
Dead zones
You park somewhere that felt right, serve 40 people instead of 200, and wonder if this is even worth it.
How it works
We do the homework. You just show up.
We scrape everything
Event calendars, university schedules, permit databases, local news — every data source that signals where people will be tomorrow.
We check the conditions
Weather APIs, time of day, day of week, historical foot traffic from Google Maps Popular Times. We know when a spot is hot and when it's dead.
We rank every viable spot
Our algorithm scores each location by expected revenue potential, factoring in competition, parking legality, and proximity to the crowd.
What you get
One email. 6 am. Every day.
Your #1 spot for today
The single best place to park based on today’s data. Address, expected peak hours, and why it ranked first.
A backup spot
In case your top pick is taken or you want a second shift location.
The data behind it
Events nearby, weather forecast, foot traffic estimate. You see exactly why we picked it — no black box.
Pricing
$39/mo per truck
One truck, one city. Add more trucks anytime. That’s less than the revenue from one extra customer a day.
No contracts. Cancel anytime. Seriously.
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