12/30/2024
My wife, Amanda Ali, and I ,Michael Ali, started this journey because we love food and hospitality. Making someone a delicious plate of food and hearing that they enjoyed it is priceless. Unfortunately I’m writing this post to let our customers know we will not be going forward with Beefcake Burger in 2025. We will be pursuing other opportunities, but we had a blast. It was a lot of hard work but very rewarding. We also met some of the best and down to earth people along the way. We’d like to thank our customers! Without your support we wouldn’t have been able to do this. We would also like to thank our fellow food truckers for support and advice:
La Patrona Taqueria, LLC
Jammin Nyaminz LLC
Cliff's Food Wagon -Midland/Odessa Area
Smoked Soul Mobile Kitchen & Catering
BoonThai Street Food
Pasifik Flava
Culinay Grace
Wok N Roll Thai Style LLC & Pacheco (thanks for saving me on the side of the road)
Cane d'Oro Pizza
Greggors Pizza
AnnaJames Brewing Company
Miss. Rias Famous Empanadas
Down South Seafood
Junior's Tacos El Rey
Pucker Up Lemonades
Dirty Grinders
Kings & Queens Treats
Dirty Drink Co.
Git-R-Grub
Dacy's Gourmet Kitchen
Sweet Traveler Patisserie
Taco N Madre
Shawni’s Shack
And Tall City Brick Oven Pizza & Chris Mendoza!
☝🏼I HIGHLY recommend trying all of the food trucks and vendors I’ve listed. Some of the nicest and talented people you will ever met, and some of the best food you wil ever try.
We’d also like to thank all the venues that gave us a chance in the beginning. Without your support it wouldn’t have been possible:
Tall City Brewing Co.
GCR Church Food Truck Fridays
Beer Garden
The Destination Midland
The Tailgate
Diamondback Energy
Midland County Horseshoe Arena - Pavilion - Amphitheater
Tall City Blues Fest
Centennial Park
Westlake Ace Hardware Midland
Legends Gym
Bynum School Midland Texas
Wagner Noël Performing Arts Center
Pease Elementary School
Allied Compression - Calvin Poindexter
United Way Softball Tournament
The Waystone (sorry we never made it)
The Shack in the Back
Midland Celebration of the Arts
High Sky Wing AIRSHO
West Texas FC
Petroleum Museum
ABC Big 2 News - KMID Basin Bites
And Pioneer Natural Resources & Nirma Ramirez Soltero
We also need to thank the folks that helped us out on those busy days. You guys busted your butts for us and we appreciate it from the bottom of our hearts
Gabby Valenzuela
Cel Este
Vanessa Trejo Johnson
Krystal Cooper
Nathan Sotello
My main man Brennan
And Dominick Jordan
And I need to give a VERY VERY SPECIAL THANKS to the Godfather and Godmother of food trucks in Midland Greg Gambino & Trina Darby Gambino of Scooter Dog TX. These folks helped us out and gave us advice when we were newbies. Greg would help me fix things on my truck, meet me on the side of the road . . . They both give the shirts off their backs and are selfless and great people. I will forever be grateful.
I’d like to thank my wife. Without you I wouldn’t have been able to achieve one of my biggest dreams. Thank you for your sacrifices. I love you.
Have a great 2025!
I love you all. See ya around.