Quiznos and Adams Street Deli Want Food Trucks Out of Downtown

[fieldafm]

Serving inferior products and scared of competition, two downtown restaurant owners lobbying City Council to artificially destroy their competition.  Viva La Free Market Comrades!!!!


Interesting how Quiznos franchises are closing all over town (in areas that food trucks don't go to) and highly successful restaurants downtown like Burrito Gallery and Olio publicly welcome food trucks downtown.  Just a weird coincidence? 

http://www.actionnewsjax.com/content/topstories/story/Food-truck-fight/hi-qX2S840i4H7OAoa80ZQ.cspx

[dougskiles]

Nothing like a little Atlas Shrugged drama keep us entertained.

If you can't keep up with your competition, don't bother trying to improve your business, let the government handle it!

[thelakelander]

Interesting. The Quinzo's owner doesn't want anymore restaurants downtown. I worked one block away from Quizno's for two years and only ate there twice because someone else paid for it. Honestly, if I we're in her position, I'd probably feel the same way. Being involved with a dying chain like Quinzo's isn't going to end well, trucks being four or five blocks away or not.

[Captain Zissou]

I'm sure the Desert Rider Sandwich shop just down the street is far less concerned about food trucks and more concerned about their customer experience.  They go so far above and beyond to please their customers that I doubt they have time or energy for much else.  In a year's time, I wonder which of the two will still be around.

[fsujax]

I wonder if the Subway owner feels the same way? Quiznos is a little expensive. With the new courthouse so close by she should be doing just fine.

[I-10east]

I happen to agree with the Quinzo's owner, the DT restaurant scene is truly 'over-saturated with eateries'. Hahahahaha! I can't say that with a straight face. There's a first for everything, and that's definitely the first time that I ever heard someone complain with the over abundance of DT Jax restaurants LOL.

[thelakelander]

^Yeah.  If I were her, I'd be more worried about Subway's cheap sandwiches across the street than a cupcake truck parked in LaVilla.

[I-10east]

^^^Exactly.

[FSBA]

Figured something like this is going to happen. Only a matter of time before this will be in front of the city council.

[thelakelander]

Lol, we really need to decide what type of city we want to be.  At times I think that there are those who really don't want a truly vibrant urban core and are happy with the current existing environment.

[Noone]

^LOL, Just wait until the Friends Of Hemming Plaza Take over.

Anyone want to go kayaking and fishing under the brand new No Fishing signs that was never before Waterways?

I am Downtown and why you aren't.

Ben, we need to go kayaking Downtown before 2025

[Debbie Thompson]

I worked downtown for 12 years.  Ate at that Quizno's once.  Was not impressed.  But we ate at Zodiac about once a week.  Why? Because their food is good. (Love the Galaxy Chicken  Salad.)  Also enjoyed Koja Sushi, Johnny's Deli when he was on Adams, before he moved to Riverside, and sometimes Cafe Nola.  If you have good food, reasonably priced, people will come.  Not every day, but regularly.  Johnny's and Zodiac had lines at lunch time.  If Quizno's is having issues, the franchisee should look in the mirror, not at food trucks.

[thelakelander]

I'm not sure even access to Riverside and Springfield or front door parking would save her.  From the Springfield side, there's a Quinzo's (or at least there used to be) inside of FSCJ and the Quinzo's in Riverside, which had plenty of parking, closed last year.  If you want a deli sandwich, there a ton of better/cheaper options to select from in DT.

[fieldafm]

Don't worry, our friend Big Government will wield his big stick and throw these Yankee pigs in the gulag.  Soon we'll give people citations for not eating our food, and the people will be forced to eat from our state run restaurants.  This is nothing that the threat of a trip to Siberia won't be able to handle.

Parking?!?  If people are walking past Adams St Deli and Quzinos which are in the CENTER of downtown to stand in the rain to eat food from a guy cooking in the back of a mail truck (who also pay rent to either a private landlord or the City... Or in the case if Art Walk a vendor fee to DVI)... Then you can't blame that on parking.

'We already have too many restaurants' is the same misguided reason that led Riverside/Avondale to reveive a moratorium on new business growth. 

Viva Communism my friends!!  Hugo Chavez is now doing a case study on Jacksonville. 

[Non-RedNeck Westsider]

Seriously, parking?!?!?

I'm one of those people that has to drive to OTF and I can promise you that there is nearly ZERO parking anywhere nearby.  When I'm on the bike, I don't mind parking it on the sidewalk, but in the truck, I typically have to use Elkin's lot and walk the 500 ft.

The parking issue won't fly here.