Authentic Jamaican Jerk — live-fire jerk cart, NYC
- 364,500
- Grilling Expected Today
- 9
- Carts on the street
- Flatbush
- Now serving
By the numbers
Built in the open, at scale.
The fleet. The footprint. The fuel. The years of seasoning behind every plate.
Find a Cart
Where's the cart right now?
Live positions across the city: who's serving, who's rolling, and who opens later. Updated against the day's routes.
- Serving now
- On the move
- Later today
- Closed
This week at a glance
Full week schedule →Credentials
Certified, permitted, and recognized.
NYC SBS
Minority-Owned Business Enterprise (MBE)
City of New York certified
NYS Empire State Development
Minority-Owned Business Enterprise (MBE)
State of New York certified
NYC Department of Education
Approved Vendor
Approved vendor
NYC Parks & Recreation
Permitted Operator (14 Active Contracts)
Permitted operator — 14 active contracts since 2018
The Rig
A live-fire kitchen that rolls.
Drawn to spec and built for real, our own cart, bringing open-fire jerk to any corner in the city.
Designed, welded, and fabricated in our own shop, then rolled out to fire on any corner in the city. The whole rig is ours — our design, our build, our patents.
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Offset smoker drum
Low-and-slow barrel fed by a live charcoal firebox. The smoke base for every jerk plate.
- 02
Char-grill wells
Open-flame grates for the hard sear that finishes the jerk. Real fire — no gas burners.
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Prep and hold
Stainless wells keep sides hot and service fast — built to clear orders as fast as the line forms.
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Twin exhaust stacks
Real draft and ventilation, built to NYC permit spec. The reason this rig got the city's first live-fire mobile permit.
- Our own design
- Patented
- Built and owned by us
The System
One operation.
Every corner.
Great jerk on one corner is luck. Great jerk on twenty corners, every day, is a system. Here is how the fire scales.
Discipline built for scale
Policies and procedures govern sourcing, prep, fire, and service across the whole fleet — codified to hold the standard as the operation grows. The jerk in Manhattan tastes like the jerk in Queens.
Routed across the city
Carts are positioned daily against demand, events, and foot traffic. A coordinated fleet, not scattered vendors guessing at corners.
One commissary, every cart
Every cart loads out from our own commissary in Jamaica, Queens. Marinade prepped in one kitchen, quality-checked before deployment, resupplied through the day — the operational backbone behind every corner.
Around the Clock
The fire runs on a clock.
Twenty-plus carts, one synchronized cycle. Here is exactly where the operation is right now.
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Reading the operation clock…
- 4:00 AMCarts deployed
- 7:00 AMCarts dropped
- 9:00 AMCarts supplied
- 11:00 AMLunch service
- 2:00 PMLocation transitions
- 4:00 PMDinner service
- 8:00 PMClosings begin
- 10:00 PMCarts return to yard
- 2:00 AMAll systems off
Where we serve
NYC and the tri-state region.
Jamrock Jerk operates across all five New York City boroughs — Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, Bronx, and Staten Island — along with Long Island, Westchester County, Northern New Jersey, and Southern Connecticut. Catering is available for corporate offices, private events, weddings, festivals, schools, and public activations throughout the region.
Catering
Bring the fire to your event.
Backyard party to five-thousand-guest festival, we roll up the cart and cook on site. Build your estimate right here, it updates as you go.
Event type
How would you like to serve it?
Three formats. Same Jamrock recipe behind all of them, different service.
Minimum 25. Type any number above — no upper limit.