In D.C., Food Trucks Get New Vending Regulations

In D.C., Food Trucks Get New Vending Regulations

For months, supporters of Washington’s ever-growing fleet of food trucks had heard stories of high-level meetings inside the Wilson Building. They worried that D.C. officials were huddling with representatives of the business community and the Restaurant Association Metropolitan Washington, who they believed wanted the city to flatten the tires of these “mobile interlopers” stealing their customers and cluttering their sidewalks.

Food Trucks in Greensboro, North Carolina Get a Trial Run at Downtown Service

Thousands of people attended the Spring Garden Food Truck Festival on Sunday evening. Many more will get a chance to sample what the trucks have to offer during October and November. The City of Greensboro is allowing them in downtown for the first time -- in a green space on Commerce Place.

"We really want to be downtown," Sam Shumaker said. He's one of the co-owners of The Great Escape food truck, which serves noodles and crepes. "We think it's silly not to have food trucks down there. We think it would bring more business to downtown Greensboro, not take away from business that's already going there."

Source: http://www.digtriad.com/news/local/article/247054/57/Food-Trucks-Rolling-Toward-Downtown-Trial-Run

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Are Food Truckers Modern Day Gypsies?

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Are Food Truckers Modern Day Gypsies?

The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) states - a 'gypsy' is a member of a wandering race (by themselves called Romany), of Indian origin, which first appeared in England about the beginning of the 16th c. and was then believed to have come from Egypt (credit Wikipedia). Whether true or not many gypsies are thought of as nomadic travellers in search of work. 

The Great Food Truck Referral

The Great Food Truck Referral

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San Francisco Street Food Festival

The 4th Annual San Francisco Street Food Frestival held on Saturday, August 18th. The SFSFF is hosted by our good friends at La Cocina. Once again they did not disappoint. There were approximately 80 food and beverage vendors including 10 food trucks slinging just about every type of food your little stomach could handle. La Cocina is a non-profit providing shared resources to ensure small food related businesses can succeed. They primarily assist low-income women and immigrant entrepreneurs who wish to launch and formalize their business. 

The SFSFF attracted approximately 80,000 hungry attendees from across the Bay Area and beyond. Admission is always free and food is at reasonable price points ($3 for small items and $8 for entrees). They even had food for the adventurous such as pickled green tomatoes fried in lard from Jarred, goat tacos from Brass Knucke Truck and "World Peace Peanut Milk" to wash it down from State Bird Provisions. They had a separate beverage area that was packed tighter than your trucks at full staff and DJ Quest was mixing it up (near the drinks of course).  The popularity of the event required the expanding of the venue to stretch over 5 long blocks. Even with the increased space you can see from the pictures below that this event was not for the claustrophobic. 

Other food festivals can learn from this well structured food extravaganza. I have been to many, but nothing like this. We are honored to represent about one third of the presenters here and our stomachs can prove it. The highlight of my day (other than the food) was probably meeting Jake Godsby of Humphry Slocombe Ice Cream at La Cocina's VIP "Secret Garden" for some some of his "Secret Breakfast" flavor (thanks guys). I'm a big fan of ice cream and anything Slocombe!