OUR STORY
ABOUT US
The Hungry Hatch is a fast-casual restaurant, caterer, and food truck in Kansas City's City Market, serving globally inspired bowls, wraps, and salads. Whether you’re grabbing a healthy lunch, ordering for the office, or booking the truck for an event, we make fresh food easy.
EST. 2019 ✺ BORN IN KANSAS CITY ✺ FOOD TRUCK ROOTS ✺ CITY MARKET HOME ✺ KC FAVORITE
OUR JOURNEY
It started with one idea: Kansas City needed healthier street food.
In 2018, while working as a Technology Integration Specialist at West Platte School District, I spent my weekends helping out on a friend's food truck. After a full summer immersed in the food truck scene, I fell in love with feeding people and knew I wanted to build something of my own.
A food truck built around healthy living and real dietary needs.
In the fall of 2018, I found my food truck and then worked up a menu that would be food truck-friendly. I enjoyed my job supporting and collaborating with teachers, training and assisting them in integrating technology into their lesson plans, and they were the first to collaborate and support me with trying out my new menu concept!
In 2019, The Hungry Hatch hit the road
and invited my daughter, Katie, to join me in this new adventure. When we started I was apprehensive about my concept. Would anyone want to eat healthy foods from a food truck? By the end of the season, from April 25 to November 5, we worked 130 food truck events proving that people are in fact looking for healthy delicious options!
From food truck to downtown KC
we were approached by Parlor KC to bring our concept to downtown Kansas City, where we started building a large following with a repeat customer base. Having a brick-and-mortar allowed us to expand our menu and try new additions to our concept by adding all-natural smoothie bowls and cold-pressed juices.
Due to challenges of opening a new restaurant during COVID —
the staffing shortage and long hours at Parlor, plus running the food truck — we were forced to shut our doors at Parlor. Two weeks later The City Market offered us a spot to open our restaurant there! This was a HUGE opportunity because our Commissary Kitchen for our food truck was also at The City Market, so having both businesses at the same location would alleviate many challenges.
Fresh food for real life
Today, The Hungry Hatch centers on globally inspired bowls, wraps, salads, plant-based options, and fresh sides made for quick service, real-life dietary needs, and flavorful lunches in Kansas City’s City Market within the River Market.
Voted a KC Favorite in 2023 and 2025!.
We're proud to call Kansas City's City Market, in the River Market, home. Just steps from the streetcar, with easy parking, in one of the most walkable food destinations downtown.