Victor Aguilar Shares How Cooking Became Community Service

A food truck interview turns into a real-world disaster response story when Victor Aguilar steps up and starts feeding the people keeping the lights on. Victor is the owner of BTM Food Trucks, known for Biscuits Tacos And More, with two locations serving Mexican and American favorites plus catering across the Hendersonville area. He shares how he built the business from years in the food industry, then took the leap to open in June 2020, right in the middle of COVID, betting on hard work, a clear concept, and steady community support.Then Hurricane Helene hit, and the work changed overnight. Victor walks us through the moment Duke Energy called asking for 300 meals, how that turned into weeks of 80-90 hour days, and what it took for a small team and a family operation to serve linemen, fire departments, the sheriff’s department, and other first responders. He also explains the quiet choices that mattered most, giving meals to neighbors who were out of power or couldn’t access cash, while trying to protect the effort from people who might exploit it. By the end, the scale is hard to grasp: roughly 26,000 to 27,000 meals served to crews and about 6,000 meals given away.We also talk about the personal cost, the faith that steadied him, and why service keeps showing up again when snow and ice storms roll in and the calls start coming back. If you care about community resilience, small business leadership, food truck catering, and what real hometown heroism looks like, you’ll want to hear this one. Subscribe, share with a friend, and leave a review telling us who you think deserves the next Hometown Hero salute.