Liveblog: Food Truck Apocalypse City Council Meeting

[TheCat]

it is terrible I have to refresh every 5 minutes.

[DeadGirlsDontDance]

Prospective food truck owner says he might have to take his truck to another city.

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Real Ting Cafe guy:

He's mixing his metaphors. He says B&M restaurants are like your wife, and food trucks are like a mistress.

[TheCat]

I missed it. Who am I married to?

[funwithteeth]

Married, single, cuckolding the guy who runs the sandwich shop down the street, who cares? Love is knows no bounds.

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Next guy: (Baby's Bad Ass Burgers?)
I own one of the mistresses. He's talking about how food trucks bring vitality and diversity to a city, and if we want to bring other businesses to the city, we need to embrace food trucks.

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A.recently unemployed man waiting for his food truck to be built just volunteered for the committee.

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My truck is at Hemming Plaza. She's saying about half the people she sees coming out of the office buildings go to Quiznos or Subway and the rest go to a mobile vendor.

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Guy from a special education school talking about the need for jobs for higher functioning individuals. The school wants to set up a food truck. He's pointing out the educational opportunities of food trucks.

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Erin Thursby
Talking about how important food trucks are to the vibrancy of the city. She thinks it's stupid to not let them stay open after midnight, to serve the bar crowd at 2am before they get into a car and drive to get something to eat.

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Reggie Brown is saying he values the (pause) openness.

Tori didn't catch the last name food truck owner:
We pay for tags, licenses, fees, insurance, and sales taxes, and if you limit us, you lose all that.

He's pointing out all the suppliers and other businesses that will lose money if the food trucks are regulated to death.

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Michael Roberts, Combat Kitchen

Feels that the legislation is restrictive enough to pretty much just strangle food trucks.

[TheCat]

I don't know Reggie's history on Council but I suspect, if he is reading the political winds, he will hari-kari his legislation. He'll either do this or will take the Redman approach and double down, which I doubt.

Reggie,  has the complete opportunity to write progressive food truck legislation, which will capture a loyal fan base of one time opponents. It's political genius if he changes course.

He may be pulling a Coke II marketing stunt. Freak people out by taking away what they love, then give it back and become their hero.

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David Bride, food truck customer
Talking about the many places he's lived. Talking about how the food trucks and restaurants do better when there's a bunch of them close together so a group of people can all get something different if they want. He had his wedding catered by a food truck.
And the food truck outside the bar at 2am thing again.

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Sandy Carter

Regulating the distance from businesses is bad. If you only have half an hour for lunch, you want food trucks, you need food trucks. She says we need to enforce the current regulations before we get new legislation.