Case study · Website + application

Wanderlust Santa Rosa

A free food truck festival every Thursday night in Old Courthouse Square. The public site tells people who's cooking this week. The application behind it lets trucks claim their Thursdays and gives the market manager one place to approve them.

Client
Wanderlust Food Truck Festival
Scope
Website, vendor application, admin
Built with
HTML, CSS, JavaScript · Supabase · Vercel
Live
wanderlustsantarosa.com (opens in a new tab)
wanderlustsantarosa.com
Wanderlust Santa Rosa home page: a red and turquoise food truck under string lights at dusk, headline Thursday night, food truck festival, with buttons to see this week's lineup.
The brief

One night a week, two very different audiences.

People coming to eat want three answers fast: when, where, and which trucks. They're usually on a phone, often already downtown.

Trucks wanting a spot need to see which Thursdays are open, ask for the ones they want, and know where they stand — without a back-and-forth of emails and spreadsheets.

So the site does both: a warm, photo-led front door for the public, and a booking flow for vendors that feeds straight into the weekly lineup.

The application

Pick your Thursdays. Get an answer by Monday.

Vendors fill in their details once, tap the dates they want on a Thursday-only calendar, and send the request. The market manager reviews every one and the vendor gets an email either way.

wanderlustsantarosa.com/vendors
Vendor sign up page, Get a Thursday: a details form beside a calendar of October where only Thursdays can be picked, with a legend for available, selected, pending and approved.
The vendor form and Thursday calendar, side by side.
Thursdays onlyThe calendar only offers market nights. Pick up to 12 at a time, or ask for the whole season.
Status at a glanceEvery date shows as available, selected, pending or approved, so vendors know where they stand.
Pay as you goA flat booth fee per date by vendor type, due a week before each market — not the whole season up front.
No retypingDetails are saved in the vendor's own browser for next time, with a button to clear them.
Market admin

The lineup builds itself.

The market manager signs in to a private dashboard to review requests, keep the menu balanced across the night, and approve trucks week by week.

Approved trucks appear on the public site's Next Thursday and Upcoming Thursdays lineup automatically — no one has to edit the website by hand.

Wanderlust Santa Rosa on a phone: the food truck photo, headline, and a full-width See this week's lineup button.
What's on the public site

Everything a Thursday needs.

01

This week's lineup

Confirmed trucks for next Thursday and the weeks after, straight from the approvals.

02

Getting there

Parking garages, street meters, transit and bike racks around the square.

03

The questions people ask

Cost, seating, dogs, rain, beer and wine, and how to pay — answered before anyone has to ask.

Need bookings like this?

Markets, events, rentals, classes — if people need to ask for a date and someone needs to say yes, we can build it.

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