re: Is anyone still hesitant to eat from food trucks?

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Once people get over the gimmick of eating out of a truck, people will realize they want to sit down at a clean table and eat in a restaurant.. Just mho

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I hear ya. A very reasonable argument for a novelty. I just see it as being about a whole lot more than eating food out of trucks but more of a means of real chefs to get into business and cook food the way that they really want to cook it. The best trucks here in BR are doing better food than probably most every brick and mortar in the city. At the very least, they are on par with the best BR has to offer. Another burger comparable to Curbside? I just don't see it, and if there is one, I'd like to hear an intelligent and specifics given argument for one that delves into particular components that make it better than a Curbside burger. Mama Della's is probably on par with The Dolce Vita truck I'd say, but I will give Dolce Vita the nod for the flavors that come from his wood burning oven and ingredients at both places are top notch, and there simply are few if any putting out the caliber of food that IR is putting out and certainly not for the price either. The Cuban Connection is putting out some really serious sandwiches, and although I'd say ethnicity aside, Anthony's does a fantastic pressed sandwich of their own with outstanding ingredients, I'd still put them up there among the top sandwiches that can be had in this city. So, while there is certainly a particular novelty to eating out of trucks when they gather together, I'd say it's about a whole lot more than just the novelty, or else it would have fizzled out long ago and there would be no regulars, which there are in droves.

Fact is, look at the ever changing menu's of the trucks in particular and you will I think understand what the real draw is, but the real understanding comes from giving them all a shot. The overwhelming majority of people in this city simply have not, and that's the question, why the overwhelming majority here who won't even attempt it. I have to believe most of it stems from lack of exposure and ignorance to exactly what's going on right now, why it's different, why it's better food than you can find most everywhere, and exactly who these people are in these trucks and their culinary resumes which is pretty impressive. It's to the point where if you saw them associated with a prominent brick and mortar, you would associate it with credibility, but when it's out of a truck, people somehow can't seem to grasp it. That leads me to believe that it's the eating out of trucks that's the main hold back for most here simply because it's not been done here before and isn't a mainstay as it is in large metropolitan areas of this country where it's much more normal and a part of every day life. As in most everything I've witnessed in my life it just takes a while for trends, fashion, etc to become accepted here as a norm. I guess there is no real reason for this to be any different, but I suppose for some reason I do expect it to be a bit different as it relates to food given it being South Louisiana, a place that not only places a high value on it, but will put just about anything in their mouth and give it a try at least once in their lives.

I've never waited that long either and I trt to eat there as often as possible for lunch. I have seen people order, fold their arms and wait outside the window in anticipation of it coming out of there any second though. I think perhaps there is an expectation for some of it being a bit like a drive up window thing while it's not really fast food but cooked to order.

When they get slammed I have seen it take a while longer, but never an hour, and I'm not saying they haven't messed up, but I can tell you this. I am more regularly disappointed elsewhere at brick and mortars around town than I have ever been at Curbside.