By Ethan Hartley

If getting noticed and selling something unique that you don’t see every day are two of the crucial components to succeeding in the highly-competitive food truck business, then Riverside resident Tom Wright may be onto something juicier than a Thanksgiving bird fresh from the oven.

It’s been a few years since the Barrington native sold his interest in Friskie Fries — the longstanding fixture in the mobile food scene that grew big enough to open its own brick and mortar in downtown Providence — to his business partner and started turning the gears on a new idea.

“It was the height of the pandemic on a Friday night,” Wright recalled while sitting in the driver’s seat of ‘The Perky Turkey’, a food truck specializing in the avian fare so popular throughout the nation this t

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