Every Tuesday night in front of Bogie’s, you’ll find two girls, some fries and a food truck.
What may sound like a tagline for a new sitcom is actually a business venture between two friends—LSU students Morgan Daigle and Victoria Waguespack.
Daigle, a pre-nursing junior, and Waguespack, a marketing junior, own FryBaby, a food truck that serves a wide array of cheese fry combinations. FryBaby was designed to cater to Baton Rouge’s popular college bar scene with crispy waffle fries covered in cheesy goodness.
The two came up with FryBaby after going out for a night of fun and drinking, and then trying to find food without getting behind the wheel.
“Morgan and I were both out in Tigerland looking for late-night food,” Waguespack says. “We realized that basically anywhere we wanted to get food, we would need a ride. This is when we came up with the idea of opening a food truck.”
The owners of FryBaby in their Tigerland-based food truck
With the help and support of their families, Daigle and Waguespack launched FryBaby and, despite the difficulty of balancing a food truck with school, have never looked back.
Since rolling out in mid-2015, FryBaby has recently relocated to Bogie’s from Reggie’s in Tigerland. After finding success on the Tigerland scene, the students are now looking to travel to more locations, including Tin Roof Brewing Company.
Daigle says she’s looking forward to FryBaby soon becoming a part of Tin Roof’s Wednesday evening yoga series, stationing in front of the bar during and after yoga time to give patrons a taste of cheesy goodness as a reward for exercising.
In addition to more locations, the FryBaby menu has recently expanded to include more fry creations. FryBaby also serves water and Powerade.
The FryBaby menu now includes: • Classic FryBaby cheese fries
• The Bakin’ Baby, featuring cheese, bacon and ranch
• The DirtyBaby, a chili-cheese combo
• The CryBaby, featuring cheese, sour cream and jalapeños
• The CiaoBaby, pizza fries with mozzarella, marinara and pepperoni
• The MyBaby, a create-your-own fry combo
• The SugarBaby, flash-fried doughnut holes with powdered sugar and chocolate syrup
The owners don’t plan to stray away from creating cheese fry combos anytime soon.
“We knew that we wanted to serve cheese fries because we both think there’s no better late night food,” Daigle says. “There’s so much you can do with cheese fries, and we love the idea of using cheese fries as the base and just building off of it.”
Daigle says the two might eventually consider expanding the menu to include other food items, but for now FryBaby remains exclusively focused on fries—and doughnut holes.
FryBaby can be found parked in front of Bogie’s at 705 E. Boyd Drive 10:30 p.m.-2:30 a.m. every Tuesday and Thursday-Saturday.
