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- Protectionism at play? Politicians say food trucks are "unfair competition" for restaurants.
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Food trucks are a vital part of many vibrant neighborhoods. For some entrepreneurs, they're a great way to enter the food industry.
Laura Pekarik is one of these entrepreneurs. She sells cupcakes from a food truck in Chicago. Laura says the food truck industry "gives individuals like me an entrance into a market opportunity for the small business owner that otherwise wouldn't have been there. I was able to rent a kitchen space instead of renting a whole brick and mortar and managing a team of people. Everything kind of was under my control to kind of get my feet wet in the business."
But since starting her business, the increased regulations have made it too hard for her to take her truck in to the city. Often she is not even allowed to park. When she does find parking, she can only stay 2 hours. "Every moment that we're driving around and not parked in the location with our window open meant that we couldn't sell," she says.
Baltimore Pizza Truck operator Joey Vanoni tells John Stossel about his similar experiences. He is not allowed to park his truck within 300 feet of any brick and mortar restaurant that sells pizza. Joey says that means "there's almost nowhere left for me to operate."
Why do politicians limit where food trucks may park? Chicago Alderman Tom Tunney says he wants to protect existing restaurants. "It is such a small margin business and it employs so many people," Tunney explains. "That's what we need to protect." Stossel says, he's a bottlenecker.
Produced by Naomi Brockwell. Edited by Joshua Swain.
How dare people open up a more convenient way of providing food at a cheaper cost!
Yea, and how dare people who can't find jobs go into business for themselves and create wealth through a creative use of capital and provide for themselves through voluntary exchange! They should go on unemployment like a responsible citizen!
Indeed, and how dare people who are exploited by other businesses open a more ethical business where they own 100% of their own work. They should respect authority like a responsible proletarian.
MichaelEatsRamen FASTER
How dare someone carve a their own path in the world instead of obediently serving the needs of their corporate employer? And then serve as competition to that former employer?(gasp!) ..... TREASON!
Get back to the temp agency, slave!
How dare they avoid having health and safety inspections and pay their workers under the table. Oh wait that is bad.
Competition - the key to a variety of the best quality.
And cheaper products
They want to turn the economy into a monopoly
@@gtaonlinemodz4218 Wow, your comment arrived 2 years later than mine. Thanks. Wo is they?
@@JoeCiliberto lol im sorry i didn't see your comment was that old i was talking about the government and huge companies
@@gtaonlinemodz4218 Ha! thanks
This is so disgusting. Why aren't more people pissed off about this nonsense?
Wesen
Perhaps, and this is a crazy idea I know, fewer people would be homeless if governments stopped getting in the way of legitimate small businesses in order to benefit themselves.
Unthinkable, I know. But maybe it's worth a thought.
Each side watches their own biased news than emphasizes stories that agree with their worldview.
I am pretty sure the reason why people don't care about this sort of thing is because virtually everyone I have met in my lifetime, usually as a subset of things that they themselves want government protections for. With the exception of a handful of Libertarians of course.
My brother gets so pissed when government does things like this, but at the same time when he gets government favors like tax credits for owning a home or a farm, he thinks that is perfectly justifiable because he happens to own a home and a farm.
Virtually everyone in the USA with the exception of 1% of the population always seem to have their particular flavor of government that they adore.
Because they have been "educated" in government schools who teach them that the government is always doing the good/just/moral/right thing. Couple that with all of the pro-government propaganda from the corporate media, and it's inconceivable to the average person that, actually, the government acts in its own best interest, and that comes at the expense of, not the benefit of us "normal folks".
Wesen
And both of them will be fine once they get their feet under them.
Taking away the ability of other people to earn a living is not going to help the homeless find a home.
Capitalism is about rewarding the guy who builds a better mousetrap, not running them over using government force. Restaurants should be forced to adopt or fail, just like every other business. Get the government out of business.
Using the government as leverage is called crony capitalism. We are against that.
Yup then some hard 7 foot factory worker that drinks cools like its warer taps the government guy on the shoulder… are you a commie? Well aren’t you PUNK!
Cops tell the gov guy… youre on your own COMMIE!
@@andrewzhou4228 - That isn't remotely true, politicians can be bought and enticed in every politicial system. Not to mention, lobbying has nothing to do with capitalism, it is about our politic system.
@@andrewzhou4228 -That is chrony capitalism and has nothing to do with free markets. Far too many people believe these 2 things have to be linked. Not to mention that we can limit this by reducing the amount of power the federal government has, as intended.
@@star999nine You gotta think about the logistics instead of thinking that the neighborhood is gonna collapse for whatever reason. People who run food trucks still have to pay taxes, so their profits that you want the government to waste aren't taking anything away from the economy. And it's not like the food and gas comes out of thin air, they have to pay for that too. Food trucks have their limits, such as size, supply, and the types of food that can be made and sold efficiently. Food trucks also have the problem of probably not having a faucet with enough running water. They are great for fast food and snacks, but they don't have an established location for business, which is both an advantage and a drawback.
Business is business, and competition is a b*tch, but that's just the reality of it. Adapt or go bankrupt. No favoritism. Restaurants and food trucks have their place, for they sell their own varieties of food for different occasions. They don't even have to be enemies. One restaurant (more likely corporation) could have food trucks that are like its satellites, so that could be an issue if it monopolizes all the spaces in a given area. However, the autonomy that comes from having your own food truck can incentivize people to prefer making it their own business instead of a satellite.
Tyranny is tyranny. Tax revenue isn’t a sufficient reason to deny businesses from operating.
Your contention that Tax revenue isn't sufficient wasn't proven to the government officials. Prove to the hegemons that they are wrong.
Hahaha you have not seen tyranny my friend.
Louder please
If you want to go somewhere and be waited on while sitting at a table, a food truck isn't competing for your business from those restaurants.
Good point. Each has it's own unique value.
Even if it was competing with the business, good. If people want the other business that much more, let is replace the other. It won't though as you stated.
Let's dispense with this fiction that business doesn't like regulations. Businesses LOVE regulation because it increases barriers to entry from competition
brwi1 I don't get all the regulation. I mean, inspect the truck for sanitary reasons and then leave them alone.
Little Marco bot.
Ha I was channeling a bit of that
+brwi1 It depends on the business and the type of regulation. Yes it is a problem. But the biggest problem is the culture we have in which the average person thinks government's role is to save us from every pain, inconvenience, and potential danger of life... and that somehow government's intervention has created our modern prosperity. Since FDR that mindset has really taken root in the public's mind.
Business people like freedom for everyone else, but want special privileges for themselves. The other enemy of a free society are the intellectuals on the other side, who favor of freedom for themselves, but want to control everyone else. -Milton Friedman
*I WANT TACO TRUCKS AT EVERY CORNER*
cristi1990an Second this motion! Who doesn’t love a good TACO!
I want a salad/veggie truck too! So I would be able to have yummy side dishes to go with my cheese, age meats, sausages, and my tacos!
YES!
"i'd like a wine truck, cheese truck, aged meat trucks, and even a few sausage trucks"
I want all this in one truck. Just call it the ors derves tray truck.
Move to Denver then. The illegal aliens do whatever the fuck they want here, and the hell with following the health code. Authentic Mexican food, but you get Montezuma's revenge along with it.
Just curious, has government even bothered to learn basic economics?
“Uggh these food trucks will put existing businesses out of business!”
“Why?”
“Because they have a cheaper and more convenient business model!”
“Yeah it’s called capitalism! when a business starts competing with another they have two options. They can either improve their existing business or change nothing and risk losing it.”
What people don’t often realize is that when businesses are allowed to compete it results in better service no matter the outcome. However, when businesses aren’t allowed to compete and government steps in, it results in the better business closing or being unavailable and the bad business remaining open and feeling fairly safe in the fact they can continue being terrible and know they won’t have any competition.
The only way for businesses to compete is for the state to regulate the economy. Otherwise, monopolies form. Funny thing though, when the state regulates the economy, its almost always in favor of the monopolies (e.g. for the brick and mortar monopoly on restaurants), allowing monopolies to form. In the end it's not just the government that's ruining the free market, it's the capitalists too.
Cyrus Situ yes but often times, as you point out, when government over regulates a service it becomes a monopoly. This can happen indirectly through increased business taxes and stricter regulations that prevent smaller business from being able to afford competing or directly through subsidies that prevent large businesses from failing no matter how poorly they perform. People assume that a lack of regulation in capitalism would lead to monopolies, but it’s actually the opposite. While it is true that without economic regulation of the free market large businesses would become even larger, what we all tend to forget is that the same would happen to small businesses thus increasing their ability to compete in the free market. Less regulation would also increase the number of small businesses which by definition would lessen the likelihood of a monopoly forming. My point is that if anyone honestly thinks that by imposing regulations on corporations will reduce their power and prevent monopolies is kidding themselves. Just ask yourself: “What will a higher corporate tax and more regulation on a particular service do to a company that can easily afford to pay the extra money in taxes or change their business to meet regulations?” The short answer is they’ll just take a big hit in profits which will either come out of their employees pay checks or perhaps lead to them being laid off all together. And despite all those valiant efforts to “stick it to the man” the rich will still get richer and the poor business owners that couldn’t afford the new business tax or the changes it would take to be compliant with regulations will either have to shutdown for good or forgo a paycheck for themselves just so they can afford to pay their employees. In the end your goal of preventing monopolies from forming isn’t reached and all you’ve done is gotten a lot of people fired and put lot of hard working business owners out of business. Isn’t it just wonderful what the government can do to the free market!👍🏻
Cyrus Situ I’m realizing now that was way harsher than it needed to be I’m very sorry about that I went into argument mode and got carried away. But I still stand by my statements just not my dickhead attitude sorry bout that
Reminds me of raising the minimum wage. All the businesses that can't afford it go out of business reducing supply of goods. With a smaller supply of goods, the businesses that pay the minimum wage raise the price of their goods and thus much of the wage gains go to higher prices. Meanwhile entry-level people are unemployed and college students choose to work high-minimum wage jobs instead of finishing their degrees faster.
You think that they don't know all of these? Of course they do. Better than us that's for sure. But, it's a loss for them if they actually do the right thing.
California is way ahead of the curve on stopping food trucks. 12 years ago I was looking into starting a food truck business, and the health department said we had to have a brick and mortar professional kitchen to work out of, which made it way too expensive.
One thing not mentioned in the article is that they want to discourage food trucks for the same reason they want to discourage people living in trailer parks. The government makes less property taxes that way.
Ironic since the food truck industry essentially started in California.
What about living on a boat? Also instead of a food truck I was thinking of making vending machines drones that can be controlled remotely by Filipinos. They would sell Umbrellas for when it rains, but also they would have a 3D printer that would print something while the drone moves to deliver it, and food would also be available.
@@aoeu256 I know it used to be normal for you to own a building in a city where the store/restaurant was on the bottom and an apartment on the top for the owner. But then major metropolis centers started to ban the living where you work. Never gave no sound reason why, just banned it.
Nothing will make you a Libertarian faster than owning a business. A politician who owns a restaurant should not be able to pass laws to restrict his own competition.
Food trucks have the best food (though I would argue about the price).....just another way for local lobbies and/or interests groups to stifle competition.
Knight Politics I've had better food in restaurants.
Their prices are so high because they're so heavily regulated. The high prices accommodate for the extra costs they incur to compete with the government-protected restaurant oligopoly.
BlueNinjakoopa553 are you being sarcastic or serious? I can't tell.
Fuck me were is Dave Shultz when you need him Stossel needs another good bitch slapping!
Well I would prefer a steakhouse over a food truck any day, but they are better than most fast food joints. I usually do food trucks when I'm at work on my lunch break so I guess that's my comparison.
Been watching Stossel for 20 years or more -- he never disappoints .
That Alderman CLEARLY has a conflict of interest. He must be removed from making or influencing ANY such decisions in the city.
Chicago
he was elected the people to make decisions on their behalf. if the citizens don't like it they can vote him out of office. food trucks are unfairly competing with restaurants especially in the age of covid where they can only do takeout a food truck doesn't have any of the expenses a restaurant does and provides the same service
@@briansamimi8537 Him being elected doesn't mean it's not a conflict of interest
It's almost as if government should mind its own business
Big Corporations don't want any competition, so they pay off politicians to keep it that way, and Government doesn't want a Middle Class, or a Middle Class that has the opportunity become independently wealthy.
Food trucks are prohibited in my town. I live in a tourist trap with less than 3000 off season residents. So, no competition allowed!
That's protectionism and it can be challeged in court.
Why does your town want to make less money?
Do you mind stating what town you live in?
Dee M Ocean Shores, Wa. I might add that this is just what I've been told by locals while discussing food trucks and other independent businesses. I haven't verified that myself but I have no reason to doubt that information.
Then boycott the restaurants and get your food from the supermarket.
This is what all regulation is for. To protect inefficient businesses from competition.
A corporation can produce 1000 vaccines for CONvid and people can chose whether they want it or not. Politicians mandating it is the issue. Corporations can do nothing without the politicians in their pocket
Well if food trucks is where the money is at then small restaurants should run their own food trucks as well!
Some do. There's a restaurant in my town that has a food truck that goes to different events. There's another place in my town that actually started out as a food truck before going brick and mortar.
Plenty do. Because it works! Just let others with just a truck do their thing!
There's a decent few food trucks in my area that are well from established institutions. Like Ezell's, a well known fried chicken chain in the Seattle area has their own food truck to use as a means to reach people who otherwise couldn't get to their store during lunch rush
Tuttle Twins are cute but do they really even understand what they're spouting? Not that I disagree with them but kids and politics usually don't mix.
Great piece otherwise Reason.
Watch the video. The Tuttle Twins are still in the ages where childhood amnesia is likely still in effect. They can't even comprehend what happened last week let alone the intricacies of policies. Their parents clearly have them reading from a script and that doesn't really do much for people concerned with policy debate. Appeal to emotion.
Reminiscent of the "FCK H8" videos a few years back.
i honestly don’t know what goes through parents’ heads when they get the bright idea to politicize their children. it seems incredibly dishonest of them.
It is creepy for sure. Same when children rant about religion. You should teach them critical thinking skills not indoctrinate them.
The best way for children to learn critical thinking is to hate everyone and argue all the time.
They sound a hell of a lot more credible about politics than most adults I know. What's your problem?
Competition is good for the consumer. Why do the politicians favor the restaurants over the consumers?
"Tell me when to stop mister congressman." as they hand off fat stacks of cash.
That's how.
do new brick-and-mortar pizzarias have to be 300 ft away from other brick-and-mortar pizzarias?
Alex Braun sometimes. You may run into issues with either zoning out getting your business license.
Yes you will see that where they restrict where another business can be depends on how much money and political influence that restaurant owner has it's pretty sad people figured out how to use government to make profit at the cost of providing a better product
"Unfair"
Is capitalism
Some business' have advantage over others
It's called a free market
When the difference is explained by who the costumers chose then it's capitalism.
When the difference is explained by government regulations then it's cronyism.
@Gerard Rietdijk
It continues being the free market, there willa always be differences between costumers and providers.
Those differences cause advantages and disadvantages in all ways between costumer-costumer, provider-provider and costumer-provider. But they`re all freely chosen by all the parties democraticaly. Everyone has a vote and they decide who they favor, creating even more advantages and disadvantages.
And that's okay, no-one unloaded coercion towards others to achieve that advantage, it was all voluntary decisions made by individuals.
You're free to decide who you favour. And even more, you're free to decide if you want to favour someone at all.
Not so free market when the government starts regulating then it will be called a regulated market
"Pizza? No, officer. We sell italian flat bread."
totally agree with main point, but i dont like the kids , being used they are just parroting what there parents think. and have no idea of the nuences of it
Montreal only just recently started LIMITED testing of Food Trucks in the City after an over 50 year ban on food street vending.
HOWEVER, the ONLY way to obtain a Food Truck in Montreal is to have an EXISTING brick and mortar restaurant. Ha!!!
Canada has become a crown corporation shit hole.
Canada has always been that.
As a restauranteur I love food trucks and applaud the operators as much as any brick and mortar store front. We have even had food truck market events set up in our parking lot and have had operators come in and work beside me in my kitchen showcasing a special menu.
#BigGovSucks.
Nathan Roon government sucks
Wesen holy shit dude did you literally just call libertarianism anti-statism? Well in that case count me a RADICAL ANTI-STATIST who will FOREVER oppose despicable, abhorrent STATISTS such as yourself and will always stand with BIG CORPORATIONS! You know why? Big corporations would have the government ended just as much as me, because it's in their interests! No taxes and no regulation means massive profits! I know corporations trigger statists like you, so I'm going to say it five more times in this comment, that you're reading with your computer built by the cooperative efforts of hundreds of corporations, from the internet you pay a very BIG corporation for, On the website of Alphabet Google a MASSIVE computing corporation, while you shit in a toilet literally manufactured by a corporation, the final resting place of your McDonald's Big Mac that you can most certainly bet came from a corporation, one that you can bet your shitty ass wants food trucks legal so that their competition can remain divided and fail to coalesce into any more powerful fast food chains to take their business.
ps you're only going to get replies like this trying to promote statist ideas in the Reason comment section.. go somewhere else please
I feel good tricks should be cheaper than restaurants but they are always more expensive. Still love them!
Good tricks could never be cheaper than restaurants, but I agree that sex work should be legalized.
Tricks are for kids!
Elmo Blatch LOL!
I think that they are more expensive than they should be because by law have to have a real restaurant/address as a base in many jurisdictions
Yeah!!! We should legalize sex work!
I love food trucks
I love restaurants
I think they've cut the guy's rights because he make delicious Italian Pizza instead of Chicago-style bs.
"Protect the businesses"... Those who give up liberty for safety, deserve neither and lose both.
Boycott the restaurants.
Food trucks are also badass!!
This is a dumb argument. The truth is that the choice is entirely up to the consumer. If the pizza is better here or there it is up to the people.
JackyDawg12 nah I don't trust anyone other than myself or my wife to cook haha. So if more people were like me the entire restuarant monopoly would collapse.
there is no "here" because the truck couldn't park "anywhere"
s0nnyburnett duh the I am making about about his argument. Can you understand that?
Solution: food/liquor trucks with drive up windows that don't stop.
In my area. Some of the best Mexican food comes from food trucks.
Sometimes I wonder if the government have a "choice list" to make sure people do not get as many choices...
He said "collude" I could almost hear all of the liberals cry out in pain REEEEEEEEEEE!!!!
Don't use kids
Why not? Better than having them play Grand Theft Auto.
Grand Theft Auto sharpened me up nicely. Wow, it's been about sixteen years.
They've been using kids since the 1970s... Remember the kid from the "Don't be fuelish" PSAs saying there might not be enough by the time he went to college? We had plenty of fuel, and plenty more to spare too!
SXM: Xairid Libs specialize in using emotions.
Food trucks (roach coaches) have been around since the 1940s at least. Why such a fuss now?????
Why improve your own business model when you can just ruin a more efficient one?
...because apparently that's considered "fair" in the modern world.
A restraunt inside of a building has options. The business hires a driver with a class E license. It does not charge for delivery during hours with peak competition. If the business has a liquor license. It could provide transport of passengers in addition to food delivery.
its a violation of constitutional right. you have the right to work. ☺
Actually in response to them not paying leasing fees, they do because they are required to also have a commissary. So they end up paying for usage to store food at either an extra locale or existing business. Also they are required to pay same licensing fees plus gas, insurance and upkeep of the vehicle and kits equipment.
It's amazing those kids can speak so clearly. You'd be surprised how few kids can do that now in days.
(From what I've seen.)
As someone who wanted to own and run a food truck, i can say with certainty that in South Carolina it is extremely difficult to operate one. Numerous tariffs, a limit on how many can be operated in a certain county and the fact that its first come first serve to renew your licences, and the property laws allowing trucks to operate in specific areas are very limiting. It's cheaper to rent out a space at an already existing location.
I was given homemade gumbo in the RV section of Lock'n by a lady who ran a food truck from North or South Carolina... can't remember. I mainly remember Willie and Gregg.
I don't see why a brick and mortar business couldn't just rent the parking space to a food truck owner. That way they are still getting revenue and might even gain more customers.
America is supposed to be land of opportunity. When seven year olds have their lemonade stands shut down by cops, yes the government can be tiresome.
My town just did an experiment with food trucks, one day a week they could park in the Park and Ride and open for business. There were no other restaurants too close, and the ones that were, just had fast food. I hope they do it again, for more days a week. It was great that the food trucks had a designated area of the lot, didn't have to drive all over looking for an acceptable spot to park, that also followed city regulations.
First time open brick and mortar restaurants often fail for a variety of reasons. A food truck cuts expenses for start-ups, who may eventually open a restaurant. In the meantime, they get their name brand and products known to customers. And it is great for customers if they can go to several trucks open close together. You can get appetizer at one truck, entree at another, desert somewhere else, and also drinks.
Stossel, I believe the Tuttle twins have been watching your videos.
Or.... vice versa!
Or reading lines their parents are feeding them.
Don't get me wrong it's great they're teaching them about liberty but shouldn't the kids be busy being kids or something?
Seems like an appeal to emotion more than anything else.
Their father will eventually bring balance to the galaxy.
That wrap looks delicious
Why can't the brick & mortar store owners just make their own roach coach? Think outside the box people.
Would be nice if there were shopping cart drones right outside of a store that you could control from home that you would control using your VR controller to pick stuff up and pay for it, and then it could deliver it to you after you paid. Since the shopping cart drone would be small, driving it with AI is less dangerous than a car.
you mean put their own food truck by their restaurant
0:35 never heard of his business. Looks like real New York pizza to me.
Tracy Flick told us about this in the movie Election: “The weak are always trying to sabotage the strong.”
Not gonna lie, its kind of annoying when parents feed their political beliefs into their children and use them to push a point
Once again - Stossel is awesome!
We must protect our restaurants because they pay me bribes... er I mean campaign contributions.
psshed, nah they just give us slips in green :)
Food trucks are awesome!!!
Government, boo.
Stossel is the best part of reasonTV. These days ReasonTV is lacking in its original tenacity.
PRETTY SOON, ICE CREAM TRICKS WILL BE BANNED! "Mom, what were ice cream trucks?"
Great video but you could've done it without the cringey kids, Reason.
Yes, it's stupid when either side of a debate uses children as tools.
Kids were annoying
For people with building restaurants. You can also get a food truck or food cart. Government doesn't need to protect you. If your product is good there is no threat from these buisness'
"Oh no, competition!"
~restaurants that charge too much
It’s not really their fault, high minimum wages, high taxes, ect. Restaurants have some of the worst profit margins
So wait...you can open a restaurant right next door to another restaurant - but you can't park a food truck nearby? That's ridiculous.
Noice reporting!!!
this is an amazing channel. i love John Stossel, im so happy to see hes making amazing segments on youtube.
In Portland we have a large and thriving food cart scene and I think the general feeling is that it enhances our restaurant scene overall. Food cart presence doesn't seem to be hurting our restaurants, and a fair number of successful food carts go on to establish brick and mortar restaurants too. Not to mention the restaurants who open up carts to expand their base. Lots of opportunities and choice in this foodie town, everyone benefits.
The irony is that I can buy the building next to a pizza restaurant, and open a pizza restaurant. There are no rules to prevent me from doing that. But I can't park my pizza truck down the street from a pizza restaurant.
If they’re worried about the food trucks, maybe the restaurants need to improve the food they serve. I’ve largely stopped going out eat, most of the time I can fix better tastier food at home. Last time I ate at a food truck, it was a waffle food truck, delicious waffle with egg, bacon, pepper jack cheese & maple syrup. Too bad none of the many restaurants around here have anything like that.
MOVE TO IDAHO...we are growing like crazy! it's hard to find a house to rent but we are working on that with the crazy construction everywhere...
PB&J at home $0.50
PB&J at food truck: $30.00
Classic example of government favoring established business
Food trucks are great! There's always a variety to choose from. And they are alot cleaner than restaurants.
Food Trucks are the best. Banning them only hurts consumers at the benefit of very few whose businesses can't compete.
This was extremely eye opening. Thank you!
If your sit-down restaurant is losing business to food trucks, your restaurant must really suck.
If your restaurant is being outclassed by something on wheels then maybe the public is saying your food sucks and these people do it better.
Fort Worth has a good food truck park I’m told. Might just have to stop by sometime for lunch.
Adapt and overcome. Hire people with their own motorcycles to deliver the food. Take orders online. The truck can then park anywhere and it wouldnt matter. Mobile aircraft carrier vs brick and mortar battleship. Air craft carrier always wins.
Soooo, if someone else wants to open another pizzeria within 300 feet of the next pizzeria they can't because... competiton? This is not America nor is it free enterprise. What if I want to open a car rental business less than 300 feet away from another car rental business. Which law says I can't??? Duh...
Some of the best food I have eaten is from a food truck. I am a construction worker. I recommend parking your truck at a construction site. Construction workers have money and they are hungry lol. If you sell burgers, pizza, tacos etc you will make a LOT
In Montreal we have regulated food trucks. The result is that it's often cheaper to eat in a sit-down restaurant than use a food truck. That's the cost of insane regulation. That's pre-covid anyway, now we don't even have regular restaurants. Now we have nothing.
I lived in Baltimore for 2 years and it’s corrupted as they are incompetent. Good luck to the pizza guy. He should go to Baltimore county and sell there near warehouses.
I want to build food truck lots in major cities
Already have them in Atl
How would that work? You think you can protect your "tenants" from regulators?
@@leerman22 City can't do anything. It's private property (until they make up the BS of having b&m kitchen).
Food trucks are perfect for work places too! Now they don't have to invest in cafeteria services. They simply have to hire a food truck to come around lunch time. But if food trucks are being strangled, then even the help from other businesses won't do anything.
Two minutes in and i had to stop the video to write this;
If you work with food, use a god damn hat, we do not need hair on our food.
Then go to another food provider. I don't care for a minimal amount of human hair on my food. Neither should anybody, our ancestors used to eat so much shit.
CognitiveScienceFr this dude just admitted he likes hair in his food
I've enjoyed food truck cuisine. The problem is that they give affordable (and sometimes better) alternatives to pricey overrated "brick & mortar" restaurants.
park near parks rec centers and schools
Did anyone notice at the end of the video it looked like he took a big old bite outa the paper? 😂
Stossel REALLY pissed me off the way he bit into that sandwich at the end...LOL.
Why not bit the right side where more of the sandwich was exposed. It sounded like he bit into the wrapper. YES...I'm losing my mind.
I think that by law they have to have a real restaurant/address as a base in many jurisdictions; so a double standard. But that's my hypothesis, I don't have any proof.
what the restaurant owner doesn't even realize is that he's not even (directly) in competition with the food truck, remember its not just the food you pay for but the experience. The food truck customer is looking for something that is quick and convenient (on the go), the person who goes to a restaurant is often looking for a relaxing experience with friends /. family, staying for at least 90 minutes, 3 courses and a bottle of good wine.
lol food trucks were on military installations for years prior to 2008. when our forces in South Korea deploy to training areas outside of the FOB, the battalion commander often contracts a local establishment to set up a temporary food tent within the perimeter of the training area. this is in addition to a military kitchen staff serving field rations as well.
Another example of protectionism and keeping competition out of the market. In a free market you would have no choice but to compete with other businesses. There would be no government to lobby for regulations.
Oh man! this is just like the Stossel Show! I like it.
Don't use kids to promote your political agenda
You are an abortion of a human being.
I voted trump. btw
Way To Go Guy! Someone Needs To Voice An Opinion For The Independents. "Right To Work Even If You Can't Afford To Pay Politicians"
London thrives with food markets directly in the middle of the city. If London can do it, any city can do it. In fact in London, you might find the markets are actually older than some of the brick and mortar.
I ain’t gay but that guy John interviewed has the most beautiful eyes I’ve ever seen.
In Idaho we have food truck days where 15 to 30 trucks park at our city office for ppl to get to know the trucks
In germany, I can't park my truck anywhere without going through a complicated permission process... The "bad" situation of american foodtrucks is an unobtainable dream for me 😅
Food truck businesses in my area are...not worth the price. Ultra greasy also but regardless, people should be allowed to compete business wise.
Just let people decide which businesses succeed.
What is with the government and shitting on small businesses?
Hammer Smith I'm a struggling small business owner myself is more where I was getting at.
That last scene I would have screwed up 100 times or until I ate four of those sandwiches. Whichever comes first... Lol 😆