[eyeamok]

Here in Los Angeles and all over the San Fernando Valley there are thousands of these sidewalk restaurants, stores,... you name it, it's for sale on the corner or out front of a shopping center. It looks just like downtown Tijuana all over the place, where I sit there are at least 20 sidewalk restaurants within 1 mile. Absolutely disgusting what this State has become. Oh I almost forgot the best part, they are funded with their EBT cards and we the TAXPAYERS Are buying the Food they are preparing and Selling on the street.

[Red Badger]

It IS Tijuana............................

[Bon of Babble]

I’m sure none are inspected as far as food violations - just as in Mexico, you take your health into your hands if you choose to eat at a “street vendor.”

I noticed they were all cleared out of and around Alpine Village - apparently Alpine Village is closed and has been sold - there are now large fences around the parking lot and the street food vendors that lined the sidewalk outside are gone.

[\/\/ayne]

And there’s no county health inspector looking at these.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Hmmmm you break into my country, you break the laws of my country, you live off my charity and now you want me to "help".

I believe my response includes the equine you are using for conveyance.

[from occupied ga]

Too bad the city doesn’t enforce zoning laws on the homeless camps that seem to be spread across the city. I guess that’s actually like work for the code enforcement officers. So no don’t do that.

[caww]

..... They are funded with their EBT cards and we the TAXPAYERS Are buying the Food they are preparing and Selling on the street”.......

I believe you ...there's many videos showing foreigners with loaded up carts leaving grocery stores paid for with EBT cards and being confronted about stocking their stores or reselling.

[Noumenon]

Wasting away in favelaville.

[Brian Griffin]

I remember entering Mexico and getting the wonderful smell of fruit beverages.

I didn’t want to get what might come along with one though.

I live in Florida and drank well water for years, but I still didn’t want to take the risk.

[Brian Griffin]

How do the brick & mortar businesses in Tijuana survive?

How much do the sidewalk commericantes have to pay the Ciudad de Tijuana?

[Brian Griffin]

I visited LA about a dozen years ago and I remember signs that said “Legalize LA”.

[Brian Griffin]

Mexican taxation quotes:

VAT, called ‘Impuesto al Valor Agregado’ or ‘IVA’.
Standard Rate 16%

Excise duties....

Annual [Income] Tax Rates for Resident Individual vary from 1.92% to 35% (2023)

Employees have to contribute to social security according to varying rates and subject to various limits based on multiples of the UMA, up to a maximum of MXN 25,656 (2023).

Real property taxes are levied by the states at different rates.

https://santandertrade.com/en/portal/establish-overseas/mexico/tax-system

[Brian Griffin]

I remember Matamoros having a thriving brick & mortar sector two decades ago and Mexicans coming north for the day to shop in Brownsville.

[Brian Griffin]

These people are smarter than our ‘representatives’ and senators in Congress and the hombre en la Casa Blanca.

[Regulator]

Diverse and Vibrating

[Lizavetta]

However, the plaza’s owner shut down for business after being found in violation of zoning laws, leading to the eviction of around 30 vendors.

Amazing how the city simply cannot find the zoning book that prohibits vagrancy, drug dealing, using the streets as a toilet, camping in public, etc. etc.

[catnipman]

restaurants? seriously? the pics show popup tents in parking lots ... food looks like it was probably cooked in home kitchens and served out of coolers ... no doubt, following ZERO health laws, tax laws, minimum wage laws, or any other laws for that matter ... AND they compete with LEGIT restaurants that DO have to follow massive regulations, minimum wages and all the other BS ...

[Vaduz]

Here in Los Angeles and all over the San Fernando Valley there are thousands of these sidewalk restaurants.

Indeed everyone with a bottle of Kaopectate knows where it’s located.

Like most places here with sidewalk food sales.

[Mr. Jeeves]

I applaud Los Angeles for allowing the free market to operate in this open manner.

Now please allow us citizens to do the same thing.