"SNACK BAR ON WHEELS" is a food service success story.

Macri, owner of Macri Catering Ltd., began driving a catering truck shortly after emigrating to Canada from his native Italy in 1969. He worked hard and saved enough money for the down payment on his first truck in 1975, paying about $11,000. " Things sure have changed in 18 years", he says. "Today, the same truck would cost about $70,000." He bough his second truck a few months later and never looked back.

Today, Macri Catering operates more than 200 catering trucks out of 4 buildings, 35,000 square-foot facility on two acres of land in Woodbridge, Toronto, Barrie and Mississauga. The site houses a food packaging operation which runs 16 hours per day packing sandwiches and desserts for Macri's catering trucks and distributing food to other catering businesses in the area. Counting the food packaging operation, distribution and drivers, Macri now employs about 260 people.

A "snack bar on wheels" driver makes up to 100 stops per day. From their Woodbridge base of operations, Macri's drivers serve customers in an area that extends from downtown Toronto north to Sudbury, and from Oakville in the west to Markham in the east.