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Posted on 5/7/13 at 7:18 pm to TheDoc
If you wanted to open an orphanage for children who dont read good in the Quarter you couldn't do it. The fact is this conversation about food trucks speaks really to a broader issue of neighborhoods having too much power in city government. I guarantee you if the issue got pressed the NIMBYs would rise form the Quarter, Carrollton, and the Garden District to shut down the 1,000 Food Truck Army. So it isnt necessarily fair to cast this all on a jealous restaurant owner's door.
Posted on 5/7/13 at 7:20 pm to BlackenedOut
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If you wanted to open an orphanage for children who dont read good in the Quarter you couldn't do it.
don't read well
Posted on 5/7/13 at 7:21 pm to Blue Velvet
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I only know the city council shouldn't be hindering it if it does.
Yes.
Permits, health codes, reasonable regulations, etc.? You bet. Other than that, leave them alone. The public (free market) will decide who and how many stays. If it causes a B&M to close, so be it. The cream Always rises to the top.
Posted on 5/7/13 at 7:21 pm to Rohan2Reed
Really?
Posted on 5/7/13 at 7:26 pm to LSU Tiger Bob
I like you.
Posted on 5/7/13 at 7:38 pm to TheDoc
"But that's because restaurant owners there aren't a bunch of pussies."
So it's ok for you to call names and not him? Pot kettle, kettle pot.
My opinion on food trucks in general is that it's a fad and within a reasonable amount of time many will disappear. They will survive in an area like Seattle who has designated parks and they don't move. Many in Austin don't move and might be ok. Many will not. And I do know that very few are getting rich or even doing much more than surviving.
So it's ok for you to call names and not him? Pot kettle, kettle pot.
My opinion on food trucks in general is that it's a fad and within a reasonable amount of time many will disappear. They will survive in an area like Seattle who has designated parks and they don't move. Many in Austin don't move and might be ok. Many will not. And I do know that very few are getting rich or even doing much more than surviving.
Posted on 5/7/13 at 7:44 pm to LSU Tiger Bob
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Permits, health codes, reasonable regulations, etc.? You bet. Other than that, leave them alone. The public (free market) will decide who and how many stays. If it causes a B&M to close, so be it. The cream Always rises to the top.
Posted on 5/7/13 at 7:45 pm to Martini
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So it's ok for you to call names and not him? Pot kettle, kettle pot.
I'm not calling him a name, now am I?
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My opinion on food trucks in general is that it's a fad and within a reasonable amount of time many will disappear.
people much smarter than you and I disagree with you.
Posted on 5/7/13 at 7:47 pm to LSU Tiger Bob
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Permits, health codes, reasonable regulations, etc.? You bet. Other than that, leave them alone. The public (free market) will decide who and how many stays. If it causes a B&M to close, so be it. The cream Always rises to the top.
Here's a slightly unrelated hypothetical that popped into my head:
say that a random city that was restrictive of food trucks all of a sudden offered up a dozen permits for auction .. and those permits were then bought by fast food chains and other crappy restaurants with big wallets .. then once they were up and running they were successful because as numbers prove fast food sells well in America? would that still support the "cream rises to the top" theory in relation to completely free markets?
Posted on 5/7/13 at 7:49 pm to TheDoc
Time will tell chief. But apparently you know everything so keep it up. 
If by smarter than me means the guy humping the taco truck for a few hundred bucks a day or the BBQ trailer for the same ill just enjoy my dumbass and my six hour workweek.
Now if one would get a top flight wine list I would patronize on a regular basis.
If by smarter than me means the guy humping the taco truck for a few hundred bucks a day or the BBQ trailer for the same ill just enjoy my dumbass and my six hour workweek.
Now if one would get a top flight wine list I would patronize on a regular basis.
This post was edited on 5/7/13 at 7:59 pm
Posted on 5/7/13 at 7:51 pm to Rohan2Reed
All I'll say in relation to that is that in a non-hypothetical situation, in Houston there's been several meh b&m places that opened food trucks to expand their business/market and they've pretty much all been epic fails from what I could tell, and Houston's food market is much more forgiving (supply/demand) than nola.
Posted on 5/7/13 at 7:53 pm to kfizzle85
Where about in Houston do you live?
Posted on 5/7/13 at 8:13 pm to Martini
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But apparently you know everything so keep it up.
I know the free market works if government would just get the frick out of the way
Posted on 5/7/13 at 8:21 pm to TheDoc
So what kind of Doc are you?
Posted on 5/7/13 at 8:30 pm to BlackenedOut
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? Ive wondered plenty of times, just precisely why someone would want to open a food truck.
Sure maybe they dont have the capital, but the hours are just as shitty as a real restaurant, the check average lower, and you dont get to sell booze. Booze is what keeps most restaurants open and profitable to a large extent.
One other thing, is approximately 34983904803978 new restaurants have opened in New Orleans post Katrina. Not all of them have been funded by big swinging restaurant groups with millions in capital. This is a fairly inexpensive city to open a restaurant in.
In other words, the market for these thing should be pretty well self-regulating, no? So, stop all the silly meddling.
Posted on 5/7/13 at 8:31 pm to TigerWise
Around the corner from W. Alabama Ice House currently, but I'll be moving one way or another pretty soon. I got laid off about a month ago and took that as an opportunity to see if I had gotten enough experience to get back to NOLA (that was the point of moving), which has proven difficult. I could get 5 job offers in a week in Houston no problem, that's not a concern. I have had a few interviews and one is on the goddamn cusp, but its going to take them a little longer to figure out if they can swing it.
Unfortunately, my roommate and friend of 10 years is spineless and his golddigging bitch gf moved in with us last month (college degree, does not work, spends all his money), and even though we don't even technically have a lease, she decided she could force me to move out because she "wanted her space" (even though the extra bedroom is, no exaggeration, her closet, and the extra room is her "office") and gave my roommate/me about 4 weeks notice, which was about 3 weeks ago. While I'm looking for a job no less. I told him today I needed another week because these guys need to run some numbers or whatever and he told me that might be hard "because we have to clean." I mean, what?
I'm in a pretty bad mood right now, sorry I had to rant.
Unfortunately, my roommate and friend of 10 years is spineless and his golddigging bitch gf moved in with us last month (college degree, does not work, spends all his money), and even though we don't even technically have a lease, she decided she could force me to move out because she "wanted her space" (even though the extra bedroom is, no exaggeration, her closet, and the extra room is her "office") and gave my roommate/me about 4 weeks notice, which was about 3 weeks ago. While I'm looking for a job no less. I told him today I needed another week because these guys need to run some numbers or whatever and he told me that might be hard "because we have to clean." I mean, what?
I'm in a pretty bad mood right now, sorry I had to rant. Posted on 5/7/13 at 8:37 pm to kfizzle85
That bites. I'll split a Food Truck in NOLA with you.
Posted on 5/7/13 at 8:37 pm to TheDoc
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What about letting the market decide?
I agree with this. i think they'd learn pretty quick that it is a huge uphill climb in a place like NOLA.....Which is NOT Austin.
BlackenedOUt would prob know, do the people that are allowed food trucks now in NOLA solely do that for a living? Taco Loco for example?
I find the love for food truck more political than anything.
Posted on 5/7/13 at 8:39 pm to Lester Earl
I find the novelty wearing off.
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