California's love affair with food trucks turns cold

Re: California's love affair with food trucks turns cold (Dr of BBQ)

Fri, 17 Aug 2012 14:40:57 GMT

CCinNJ
This is about more than one "organization" representing the voices of independent business. As so many that have a strong addiction to towing the line not thinking with their own minds and having very little self-control (like Roadfood at times) issues don't get resolved. The Bloods & Crypts. Yada yada. Worry about your own Goddamn ass and business before being an organization or organizations for the people.

Although I'm not sure they wouldn't get run over like the trucks are getting in Chicago CC I agree 100%. I only posted this thinking that independent operators get hit hard as often as not in today's world, and most new posters have no clue. They have a dream and some drive and that's it. We have 3 trucks in town, one doing ok in the county, my trailer in the city, and the other built, operated for 3 months and already for sale. When I opened I ended up suing the city and won. They then changed the law and now it's next to impossible to operate a truck in the city of Springfield.

Re: California's love affair with food trucks turns cold (CCinNJ)

Fri, 17 Aug 2012 14:20:31 GMT

This is about more than one "organization" representing the voices of independent business. As so many that have a strong addiction to towing the line not thinking with their own minds and having very little self-control (like Roadfood at times) issues don't get resolved. The Bloods & Crypts. Yada yada. Worry about your own Goddamn ass and business before being an organization or organizations for the people.

Re: California's love affair with food trucks turns cold (HollyDolly)

Fri, 17 Aug 2012 11:49:11 GMT

So far, there haven't been a lot of trouble for food truck vendors in San Antonio that I'm aware of.Maybe have areas where food trucks can go, just not in front of a restaurant. I'm sure something will be worked out hoepfully and everyone will be happy.

Re: California's love affair with food trucks turns cold (Tampico)

Wed, 15 Aug 2012 10:28:44 GMT

California is out of money they have to find it somewhere. And they will.

Re: California's love affair with food trucks turns cold (Bruce Bilmes and Susan Boyle)

Wed, 15 Aug 2012 09:41:35 GMT

Foodbme

Like everything else, if it gets big enough, government will want a slice of the pie and will regulate it!

Let's hope so!

Re: California's love affair with food trucks turns cold (Foodbme)

Wed, 15 Aug 2012 03:16:05 GMT

Like everything else, if it gets big enough, government will want a slice of the pie and will regulate it!

California's love affair with food trucks turns cold (Dr of BBQ)

Tue, 14 Aug 2012 07:38:40 GMT

California's love affair with food trucks turns cold amid regulatory dispute

California fell in love with food trucks – a phenomenon it exported across the US – amid hopes they would bring together disparate communities in a culture of outdoor dining.
Strangers do indeed queue for the gourmet fare in a convivial atmosphere, but it turns out the food truck owners are now the ones in need of some unity. A row over regulation has pitted rival factions in angry accusations of bullying, scare tactics and dire warnings that the entire industry faces destruction.

In one corner is Matt Geller, chief executive officer of the Southern California Mobile Food Vendors Association, who opposes regulation as anathema.

His organisation's 150 members, sprinkled from Santa Barbara to San Diego, say city and state authorities have no right to restrict their businesses beyond public safety codes.

In the other corner is the newly formed California Mobile Food Association, or CMFA, in Sacramento, which says food truck owners should cooperate with regulation attempts.

Earlier this month, CMFA's president Chris Jarosz announced he was cooperating with state assembly members on a proposed law allowing cities to regulate food trucks.

This came amid a spirit of compromise in which Sacramento's food truck owners agreed with restaurants – who feared losing out to wheeled competitors – over where and when trucks could operate. The CMFA's compliance triggered an alarmed letter from Geller to local truck owners in which he all but accused the organization of treachery.

Support of state legislation would reverse the accomplishments of his harder line group and "likely destroy the mobile food industry in California", the Sacramento Bee reported.

Jarosz and other truck owners who favour compromise called the letter "threatening", "bullying" and "scare tactics" and said they would continue cooperating with Sacramento officials and explore possible state legislation. "It could erase what we've accomplished in the past two months," he told the paper. "It's important in the next six months that food trucks take care of each other and show respect for each other and the regulations."

However some truck owners such as Davin Vculek, owner of Krushburger, defended Geller as a champion. "He's worked so hard to give rights to the food trucks, and now the industry is working against him. A lot of politicians and big government are tied in with restaurants."

The dispute is the latest in a series of disagreements within a burgeoning industry which caught the Californian public's imagination and inspired imitators in Chicago, New York and elsewhere in the US.

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