Epic win for SoCal!
“City Council voted unanimously Wednesday to introduce an ordinance to repeal a 61-year-old city ban on mobile vending.”
“A lawsuit filed against the city by the SoCal Mobile Food Vendors Association in August claimed that the city’s ban, passed in 1951, is in direct contradiction to state law passed in 1984”
“(Restaurants) feel they are paying a lease and rent and they are spending a lot of money to operate a business, and they feel is is unfair for someone to drive up and take their customers away.”
Well, we at Food Truck King understand that position and sympathize with the argument, but we feel that for most instances they are serving serve two different markets. A customer wanting to have a nice dinner date won’t be wooed away from going into a restaurant by a taco truck parked down the block, and inversely someone just wanting to grab something and keep walking doesn’t want to have to wait for a seat, wait for service, wait for food, wait for a check before they can get on with their day.
Yes there is some overlap, but we really believe the impact on the brick’n’mortar establishments will be nominal. Indeed, we might even postulate that with the food trucks being out, it will just increase the charm of the neighborhood and bring out more people to the streets anyway, and restaurants might just possibly increase the foot traffic in their businesses.
Read the full article on the Pasadena Star-News:
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