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The Salty Pineapple food truck in Salt Lake City wins $10,000 and a chance to expand its Hawaiian barbecue business

Salt Lake Tribune | October 24, 2018

Related Topics: Salt Lake City, Food Network, Plate lunch, The Salty Pineapple, Andrew Zimmern, Truck, Food truck

When Daysha Filipe’s food truck The Salty Pineapple was featured on the Food Network earlier this month, she had no idea a $10,000 tip was at stake.

By the end of filming for the “Big Food Truck Tip,” though, it was clear she and her crew had won the grand prize.

That’s when chef, writer and show host Andrew Zimmern grabbed the tip jar — which reads, “On a Scale from $1 to $10, How Attractive Are You?” — and said “Ten-thousand.”

(Brodi Ashton | For The Salt Lake Tribune) The tip jar at The Salty Pineapple Food Truck
(Brodi Ashton | For The Salt Lake Tribune) Daysha Filipe and her Salty Pineapple Food Truck won $10,000 on a recent episode of Food Network's
(Brodi Ashton | For The Salt Lake Tribune) The Kahlua pork plate at The Salty Pineapple Food Truck.
(Brodi Ashton | For The Salt Lake Tribune) The Salty Pineapple Food Truck won $10,000 on a recent episode of
(Brodi Ashton | For The Salt Lake Tribune) A lunch plate at The Salty Pineapple Food Truck in Salt Lake City.
(Brodi Ashton | For The Salt Lake Tribune) The Salty Pineapple Food Truck won $10,000 on a recent episode of Big Food Truck Tip on Food Network.

“I had no idea it was a contest,” said Filipe, adding that it took several days, and the check to clear, before it sunk in that she had indeed won the money to invest in her Hawaiian barbecue business.

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