I'm not getting into a political argument here as seems to be developing, just offering up a comparison as someone from NOLA who has lived in Houston for the last two years. Houston has had several entrepreneurs who started out as food trucks that within a particularly short period of time became brick and mortar shops. Hell, two of these motherfrickers not only opened a full fledged brick and mortar restaurant, they bought an old brewery site and started a brewery.

Use this competition/property value argument all you want to justify protectionist policies, the counter argument to stifling competition is alive and breathing 300 miles away (and in general ingrained in economic history but that's a different board) in the economic backwater called Houston.

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Posted by Oenophile Brah

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Posted on 5/7/13 at 2:44 pm to kfizzle85

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as someone from NOLA who has lived in Houston

Surprised you left, surely industry exists in NOLA equal to Houston?

Houston has such a large amount of industry that require a large amounts of supply of food. This exists with or without food trucks. Obviously New Orleans is a much smaller town,(New Orleans has 1/6 the population) with limited industry. The CBD is a work in progress, the city is constantly trying to attract business to town.

The universe of options is much smaller so when 1 restaurant in NOLA is lost it has a much larger impact then 1 lost in Houston.

Trust me, I'm no protectionist on a macro scale, but this is New Orleans. We don't have unlimited options, and some things must be protected until the business climate changes.

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