In DC Food Vendors are required to take food handling training before licensure. That was never an argument. There were also rules not allowing people to set up within a certain distance of competing stores. There was not much disagreement with that either. The big argument was requiring the poorest vendors to pay the same Fee in Lieu of Taxes as the most profitable vendors. The vendor position was to require all vendors to take a half day course on record keeping and paying of their business taxes and the IRS Schedule C that formed part of tax calculations. Another argument was requiring vendors to pick un location for vending. Some had established clientele that were paid on the same day in large buildings and another day in other large buildings. Freedom to move was important. A third disincentive was requiring All businesses to get a Basic Business License. Even small ones like Avon distributors. One recommendation was to excuse businesses grossing under $100,000, and only require the tax paying course.
Those regulations strangle small businesses, but I’m sure the government doesn’t want them around anymore anyway. Many private individuals built their wealth with them, handed them down through generations, and government is bristling that they can’t push the same social engineering/hiring nonsense on them that they’ve managed to with huge corporations (which basically function as government agencies at this point in terms of keeping tokens and diversity directors on the payroll.