The Ruru Baked food truck built by The Cesario Group, a white step-van outfitted as a mobile commercial kitchen with service windows open
Mobile foodservice build · case studyRuru Baked

Ruru Baked

A plant-based dessert brand needed a truck turned into a real commercial kitchen. We designed and built it in-house, so the stainless line, the refrigeration, the shelving, and the service windows all came from one team.

LocationToronto, Ontario
Project typeMobile foodservice build
AccountabilityOne team, end to end
01 · Who it's for

Who this was for

A Toronto dessert brand taking its plant-based treats mobile, and needing the truck to work like a real kitchen, not a styled-up van.

02 · The challenge

The hard part

A full prep line, refrigeration, storage, and service have to fit a few feet of truck and still pass as a commercial kitchen. Every inch counts.

03 · Our part

What one team owned

We handled it as one job: layout, stainless fabrication, under-counter refrigeration, custom shelving, and the service windows the brand sells through.

04 · The result

Why it matters

A compact kitchen on wheels that holds up to daily service, with one team behind the whole build instead of a chain of separate trades.

Inside the finished Ruru Baked truck: stainless prep line, under-counter refrigeration, and custom shelving built by The Cesario Group
Ruru Baked, a Toronto plant-based dessert brand, built mobile by one team.
03 · How we handled it
01 · The constraint

A truck is the hardest kitchen to plan.

There is no spare room. Prep, cold storage, service, and movement all have to share a few feet and still meet commercial standards. The layout has to be right before a single panel is cut.

02 · The build

Stainless and refrigeration, fabricated in-house.

We built the prep line in stainless, set the under-counter refrigeration, and fit custom shelving so the brand could store, prep, and serve without fighting the space.

03 · The result

One team owned the whole truck.

Design, fabrication, equipment, and the finish work all ran through us. That is the point: one number to call and one team accountable for whether the truck works on a busy day.

The build had to do everything a kitchen does, in a fraction of the space, with one team standing behind it.
04 · Need / role / result

What this means for you.

01

What they needed

A truck the dessert brand could prep and serve from every day, held to a real commercial standard instead of a styled-up van.

02

What we did

We ran it as one in-house job, so the layout, the stainless, the refrigeration, and the finish all came from the same shop and lined up in a few feet.

03

What they got

A compact kitchen on wheels that earns every inch through daily service, with one team to call if anything on it needs sorting.

05 · Scope

What we handled.

The pieces that turn a truck into a kitchen, kept under one team so nothing fell between trades.

Mobile kitchen layoutStainless fabricationUnder-counter refrigerationCustom shelvingService windows
Build typeFood truck
AccountabilityOne team
CityToronto