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Here's a way to get started in the food business, and all you have to do is move to Columbus, Ohio.
 
From the Columbhus Dispatch:
 
More food carts will be coming to a street corner near you if the Economic and Community Development Institute has its way.
 
The local nonprofit business incubator recently began its Food Fort program, which offers aspiring mobile restaurateurs access to food carts and a commissary in an 8,000 square-foot building at 737 Parkwood Ave.
 
Food carts are viewed as a great way to get started in the food business.
http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/business/2011/08/02/nonprofit-serves-up-food-cart-program.html

Wow how interesting...it's just a little to far north for me, shame

It is cool. But I'll bet the currant cart owners,restaurant owners, and local catering companies aren't very impressed. 
Jack

How would this affect the catering companies D of B? (theory: they wont make any money from cart owners leasing space to them?)

Some towns economic developement commissions are on the ball. Other towns fight new things like crazy. The town I am in has no regulations on mobile while 2 of the 4 towns around me do not let itinerant vendors at all and 1 of the 4 have heavy restrictions giving only 180 day per year permits to the one existing unit that never leaves its location while not letting any new units in. If the existing unit ever leaves the lot it cannot come back.

PurpleCheetah


How would this affect the catering companies D of B? (theory: they wont make any money from cart owners leasing space to them?)

 
Well it's all more competition for those that did it by themselves. And the article said they would rent the commissary to anyone that wanted to start a catering business. So again someone already in business bought equipment, installed it into a building they bought or rented and took the big gamble. The people in this project come play and if they don't do well or like the food business they just walk away no harm no foul. I'm not saying it's not a great program just that it would piss off some hard working entrepreneurs

Ok I understand fully what you mean now, yea I would be a little ticked off myself