If you have driven down Oak Street in Bozeman, you have probably seen a food truck hanging out in the Kenyon Noble parking lot over the years. Low Key Sandwiches large green school bus has been parked in this lot and cooking up sandwiches since June 18th, 2018. This truck was conceptualized by former MSU students Jake Rogozinski, Mia Moore, and Ben Inman-Kuehn as a way to create a fun work lifestyle post-college. With reasonable prices and great flavors, Low Key Sandwiches has developed a large fan base since its 2018 opening.

Sierra Holmes: How was Low Key Sandwiches conceptualized?

Jake Rogozinski: My friends, Ben Inman-Keuhn, Mia Moore, and I were always working restaurant jobs, and it had always been a dream of ours to start our own. One day, as we were skiing at Bridger, one of our friends mentioned that this truck was for sale. At the time, it was a business called Heap Burgers, but after we found out that it was in our price range, we ended up pulling the trigger and buying it! So it was definitely a spur of the moment thing that happened really fast.

SH: Did you always know you wanted to start a food truck?

JR: No, it was honestly a matter of circumstance that led us to the food truck thing. But more than anything, the reason we wanted to do it was just to serve good food to good people and run a business with our best friends. That has always been what is most important to me, Mia, and Ben.

SH: What would you like customers to experience when they first come to the window of your food truck?

JR: First and foremost, we want customers to experience friendly customer service when they come to the window of our truck. That’s always what I’ve looked for in employees—their ability to treat people like people, and be kind to others. Along with this, I think as we’ve grown more over the years, I feel like we’re a lot of tourists’ first stop in Montana… which is really cool…  to be the first place they go to. So I like to give them a warm welcome to Montana through great food and kind service.

SH: What menu items do customers keep coming back for?

JR: Most of our regulars keep returning for our cheese steak or the Banh Mi sandwiches. These are fan favorites that our customers love. The Banh Mi is a Vietnamese sandwich that comes with our house made hot sauce, which is a five pepper pineapple hot sauce and is loaded with pork, daikon-carrot slaw, Asian mayo, jalapenos, cucumber, and cilantro. It’s definitely something you have to try when you come here. People also love our Wild Card burger. They’re both must-haves when you come here.


SH: How is Low Key Sandwiches unique to the Bozeman food scene?

JR: Well, our location is really unique. We are kind of in a bubble here on Oak Street; there aren’t too many lunch places around, which makes us pretty unique to this location. We’re also one of the first food trucks to really get going before the pandemic made food trucks super popular, which I am definitely proud of. We also have a really unique menu compared to other food trucks where you can get more lunch-styled food like sandwiches that have a bit of a twist in their ingredients, like the Banh Mi that I mentioned above.

SH: What do you like most about being a part of the Bozeman food scene?

JR: For a long time, it didn’t feel real that we owned this business. It was this dream coming true that didn’t feel real at the time, but it was so cool to see how much we started to mean to the community over the years. We have become a lot of people’s regular spot and we just try to go above and beyond to make them happy and show how much they mean to us. I mean, I always say, you only get three meals a day, right? So you have to make sure to make them all count.

With six years of experience serving the Bozeman community, Low Key Sandwiches has become a staple in Bozeman as an easily accessible lunch spot on Oak Street. The food truck is open 7am-3pm, with breakfast served until about 11am every day of the week. If you’re looking for a spot with great service and a crew that is passionate about creating amazingly, flavorful sandwiches with tons of unique ingredients, then head on over to Low Key Sandwiches!