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I guess that is it. When I moved to Philly, maybe 25 years ago, broke, looking for FT work while working temp, food trucks were great. I’d never seen them outside of the tourist area in DC, and they didn’t sell very interesting food. But in Philly, oh my! Greek food, Chinese, the Koreans had big fruit salads, there were a few Jews with felafel trucks. There was breakfast, lunch, and dinner to be had from a truck. It was good and it was cheap.
I haven’t had hipster food (from a truck) and if they are to blame for regular people not being able to eat a cheap meal from a truck, then shame on them, and shame on the cities that put up barriers to having food available to the masses.
The hipster food wagons are overpriced and serve food way to slowly to be of any competition for the food wagons that serve to worksites.
I doubt the enforcement of the laws will be equally applied. Officials don't want to ask to many questions where it may stir up a hornet's nest such as issues of immigration status.
There are hoops some yuppies will jump through that the tamale truck just won't.
For over a decade we've even had low price food vendors who walk through bars with a small bag of pizzas or a box of wrapped tamales ("5 bocks!"). There never has been any movement in the city to regulate or inspect that traffik.
The cities see a pot of gold in the hipster trend. P