FORT COLLINS • Joseph McQuain was ready to throw in the towel.
Four years into operating his Fort Collins-based barbecue food truck, BIGS Meat Wagon, McQuain’s confidence and energy had wavered in 2016.
“The first four years were brutal,” said McQuain, who launched his food truck in 2012. “I definitely had some second thoughts. I thought, well, I’ll do the Taste of Fort Collins one more time. This was back when the event was three days, and we somehow managed to get a 50-yard line of people the whole day for all three days. It was incredible and made me think: ‘Well, I guess I’m doing something right. I need to figure this out.’”…