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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Blaubart, post: 1483148, member: 37498&quot;]I find this to be a very interesting and relevant comparison given that our city is currently considering adopting rules for food trucks.&nbsp; We have two food trucks that park downtown, sometimes right outside restaurants, and sell food.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve heard that most restaurant owners are totally fine with this because they aren&#039;t afraid of a little competition.&nbsp; It doesn&#039;t hurt that they are serving two different demographics.&nbsp; The person that is looking for a $5 snack they can eat while walking around downtown is probably not going to get a table and spend $20+ and a half an hour eating lunch in a restaurant.</p><p><br /></p><p>For the city, it&#039;s about three things: Money, safety and control.&nbsp; They are considering imposing a tax on the food trucks to help offset their impact on city services.&nbsp; They want to impose rules to help ensure the safety of consumers, and they want to limit the locations where they can operate to business and retail areas unless the truck is catering an event at a residence or park.&nbsp; As far as I know, they aren&#039;t even considering the sort of rules that other cities have where food trucks cannot operate within so many feet of restaurants.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think it&#039;s important for all of us to understand that we all live in different regions of the world, in different size cities, with different attitudes towards many things.&nbsp; What is perfectly acceptable in small town Montana, might very well ruffle a few feathers in NYC.&nbsp; In a different thread, someone mentioned setting up a table outside a coin show and selling coins, cookies and lemonade.&nbsp; I think he was being sarcastic, but you&#039;d probaby get away with doing something like that here in MT.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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