Design of Mobile Cart for Food Streets in Bangalore

The lifestyle of people in urban areas is growing faster and even the food preferences are changing day by day. At present there are many food streets available in Bangalore selling variety of food. Customers tend to select food service based on hygiene, quality and taste. The food street vendors use variety of customised carts based on the food they are selling. Thus competition within street food vendors is increasing with a need to modify the available vehicles to suit the requirements of the food cart. In this paper, existing Tata super ace was modified as a food cart for selling chats. From ethnography survey, customer voice was converted to technical requirement using Quality Function Deployment (QFD). Based on QFD and Product Data Specification (PDS) various concepts were developed, one was taken further in a product development process. The concept was visualised using Alias virtual design tool and with a mock-up model to a scale of 1: 10 using sun board material. And the design is validated using virtual ergonomic analysis tool for easy accessibility of various food compartments within the cabin space. Also few mechanisms were incorporated in cart for easy opening/closing of doors and portable chairs were visualized for the functional operation.