The Fight Against Food Trucks

[@tavraney3289]

Kinda how cab company's trying to shut down uber. He who provides the best service should survive

[@homewall744]

And "best" is judged by consumers, not government officials.

[@gregoryeverson741]

uber also rips of the cab drivers, uber drivers dont make shit

[@patrickminahan9746]

Gregory Everson Uber drivers do it to make a quick buck, taxi drivers do it for a living. Thats why Uber took over

[@jimbobaggans1564]

Patrick Minahan This happened in China too. The tuk tuk's were cutting into the cab companies profits. So the cab companies complained to local officials and stopped the tuk tuk's from operating. Corruption knows no boundaries.

[@elcamino5145]

27 years as a cab driver.. I am a real business, licensed, fingerprinting, photographs, state police background check, meter inspection, and real Taxi INS! Not state minimum INS... Uber is devalueing the entire industry and destroying livelihoods while paying their drivers pennies.

[@mrow7598]

I live in an area with lots of breweries. They love the food trucks they park out side the brewery and serve food that the brewery can't. Its a Win/Win.

[@gregoryeverson741]

my city has many bars downtown but nowhere to eat but at the bar and its always a burger or a frozen pizza

[@jimbobaggans1564]

M Row A lot of times they park at a factory (yes there are a few left) and provide food for the workers at lunch time. They are great!

[@OGSavage175]

That's fine and that is actually what the law stated, "you must be 300ft away if you are serving the same items as the restaurant." That is exactly the outcome that could be possible for these food trucks, they just need to look at what isn't being sold at these restaurants and compete with them by selling their own unique items. I saw plenty of pizza places to choose from, so the guy should have picked a different food to sell.

[@somedude2492]

@@OGSavage175 those are all places where you sit down and enjoy your meal. I've got a 45 minute break to have lunch, I don't wanna wait 20 mins for my food, 10 mins for the waitress to come to my table and let me pay, and eat in 15 min. Sometimes, I just want to get to a food truck, order, wait and pay in 10 mins, and eat my food in maybe 15min so i get 20 free minutes to do other stuff or just relax a little at the office before starting work again. In this type of situation, food trucks are objectively better for me.

[@OGSavage175]

@@somedude2492 then you just got to find the food truck that is selling your food. It shouldn't be that difficult, especially in a city. But not all places require you to sit down. The example that I've seen in the video was pizza places. Most pizza joints I went to you had the option to eat there or take it on the go. Most restaurants have that option as well.

[@mh_golfer]

Capitalism is about rewarding the guy who builds a better mousetrap, not running them over using government force. Restaurants should be forced to adopt or fail, just like every other business.

[@RedfishInc]

Lol, I don't think that Rahm Emanuel is a big promoter of capitalism.

[@kauske]

Technically, this is a form of crony capitalism. Since bribes and lobbying are being used to promote unfair business practices. And a massive conflict of interest, since the mayor owns several restaurants. Counter-intuitively, when the free market is too free, you get these sort of problems. It becomes the wild west and people bribe, or undersell at a loss to bankrupt competition, then jack up the price later. It's all about getting just the right mix of regulation, and regulating how money can be spent to lobby the government. That's the big one, all the regulations in the world don't to shit if the guy with the most capital can just go alter them to stomp out competition.

[@weihenghsu723]

Taxation is theft . U cannot use taxes as a reason to protect restaurants. 2 wrongs dont make a right. The gov perverts the free market at the expense of the consumer how sad

[@kauske]

Zhong Zhang Get out of here you libertarian trash.

[@somedude2492]

@James Wisrik they're not bad guys, they are guys that don't seem to have an idea to how to beat food trucks so they just shut them down. Capitalism is all about giving people the best for the cheapest. The one who achieves that will have the money. People are happy, good business practices are rewarded and the one who offers worse stuff for more money will go bankrupt. As simple as that.

[@GretchentheAlligator]

Ahhhh government, always oppressing and beating down the little guy, I want the government out of mine and everyone else’s lives!

[@danboban9119]

HAZE87x little guys own small restaraunts in building to.

[@spuriouseffect]

Dan bo ban .... And they get squashed by chain businesses that procure large tax breaks. The same chains that don't mind hikes in the minimum wage that put the little guy out of business, eliminating competition. Government is used as a club.

[@danboban9119]

Spurious Effect yea i wasnt talking about big business. You are trying to straw man this argument. Food trucks crush ma and pa restaraunts.

[@spuriouseffect]

dan bo ban ..... You are making the Tesla argument. Car dealerships in Texas used the government to stop Tesla from selling cars direct to customers. How are you unable to see the corruption in that? These food trucks are ma and pa restaurants, that's the point. They are being crushed by businesses colluding with government. The city official admitted that he owned 2 restaurants that he was trying to protect.

[@danboban9119]

we are talking about more established business buildings that pay alot for that space (alot more then food trucks) your argument about the guy trying to protect his restaurant buildings can also be said that the food trucks are trying to do the same thing but of course they pay alot less for their business operational cost but they want to have their food trucks out side and around those same buildings? How is that fair? Consumer goods/service's and consumer products are in diffrent categories in my oppinion if you want to talk about cars but lets just say if there is a game shop building and then i come and start selling games in the parking lot out of my truck. If you think thats fair then im sorry we have very different oppinons and we wont be able to see eye to eye.

[@bluetextonwhitebg]

a *LICENSE* to arrange flowers?!! jesus christ...

[@wedgeantilles6134]

Can you imagine if someone didnt use complimentary colors! The travesty! Think of the children!

[@vulcandawg7623]

Amerika, land of the free... well... if you have a license to exercise that freedom that is.

[@123telamon]

you could invade the smell space of others with your flowers

[@CalebePriester]

Excuse me, kind sir. May I see your license for breathing, please? lol That's the future...

[@markhouck5258]

Don't Raise Your Voice To Load, You Might Offend Someone and With All The New Laws In America That's Illegal... Laughing OUT-LOAD At Y'all... "America's Govern-Ment - BS"

[@davedaddy101]

Let the market decide if brick and mortar is more important than a truck.

[@davedaddy101]

meaturama you just made yourself look like an idiot. People are the market. Same thing. Saying “let the market decide” is a commonly used phrase.

[@davedaddy101]

meaturama lol you should have stayed in school.

[@123telamon]

@meaturama HAHAH meaturama its just a commonly used phrase

[@marvalice3455]

Yes

[@marvalice3455]

@meaturama what.

[@nathanadams6648]

Go get em food truck operators. Im rooting for you!

[@cmndrkool321]

I hate when people bring their kids into political drama to push their agenda. It makes me want to listen to them *less.*

[@kyle1267]

cmndrkool321 yeah i agree with the video but I really dont like how they use kids

[@iloveferrets5859]

tittle twins look like snitches

[@theephantommenace]

Marijuana: "What about the kids?" Guns: "What about the kids?" Fuck the kids! 😂

[@jerryvelasco1474]

@Jst A Guy Isn't Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, where the FBI send the people they want to give dick sandwiches to? 🤔😰🤢.

[@SovereignStatesman]

Yeah no shit, like poster-children who don't have a say OR a clue. Hiding behind children is the most manipulative thing imaginable.

[@ssm59]

What makes this specially tragic is the fact that the food trucks in the brick-and-mortar restaurants are not in the same business. People who use food trucks are not looking for a sitdown meal. They’re looking to grab something quick and get on with their day, a need that the brick-and-mortar restaurants do not serve. The same token people who want the sitdown dining experience are not going to walk out onto the street to a food truck.

[@xallthatremains8339]

Such a simple concept and yet these asshats can't figure it out

[@nikkij3254]

Bingo!

[@Walker-ow7vj]

X allthatremains they can it’s just they don’t care

[@nadominhoca]

Even if they do.... it doesn't matter!

[@ApartmentKing66]

Agreed...apples and oranges.

[@Intelligenkeit]

my question is... why are existing resturants more important than existing food trucks? Whoever sells the better food wins the customer, i dont understand, isnt that the way capitalism should work?

[@vanillacokejunky]

@DavM aka "crony capitalism" or corruption

[@kofola9145]

My question is: what makes a restaurant feel threatened by a fast-food truck? The level of service? Quality of products?

[@danyleon4870]

Theoretically restaurant held more jobs and pays more. If you want a better competition restauraneer should provide more diversity on their menu, or in house music, or access of wifi to their customer. They have the advantage of space. But nowdays everything is about politics. Sigh.

[@geoeconomics3067]

Capitalists are biggest enemies of capitalism - Karl Marx

[@123telamon]

intelligentkeit, you didnt realise this isnt a capitalist country, its a monarchy, the noble can have it all, the people cant do shit

[@lapamful]

This is idiotic. Sometimes I'm in the mood for a slice of pizza and I don't want the hassle or time of sitting in a restaurant. Sometimes I want to sit and eat as it's too cold outside or I have more time. When the gov restricts competition the consumer loses out. This is how liberal policies create what we see in Detroit, one little regulation at a time and you end up with Venezuela.

[@nnnnnn5135]

True. Those left wing nuts will destroy the free market, which is a lose lose situation for everyone.

[@bryanbrett6037]

Yup!

[@Benjamin72297]

Goddamnit at least look up the definition of liberal before you use the term. That means more freedom

[@tryomama]

How is this even a liberal thing?

[@tryomama]

@Jim McCracken more like idiots hijack your own country and not leftist. Why is every problem a leftist problem? Like do you think I hate food trucks and wanted to kill off competitions just because I side left? Wtf?

[@GeneralG1810]

Mate if your restaurant can't compete with a food truck, maybe you should question the quality of your food

[@MrDarthvis]

A good example of how competition in the market helps consumers with cheaper prices or better quality elsewhere. It’s when your competitor brings in government to play favorites against you.

[@ivonned32]

Exactly

[@ApartmentKing66]

@@MrDarthvis Or in Tom Tunney's case, is IN government and is stifling you with his authority.

[@rustym.shackelford5546]

Or even question their business model - I currently work at a Korean BBQ Joint and they had a major malfunction w/ their main storage freezer - I had to take out an ENTIRE shelf full of spoiled meat and melted Ice Cream. Guess what one of the owners bought? A $20k truck... Priorities - apparently.

[@pholdway5801]

Mate if you think working uphill against zero rent , zero rates competitors is fun then were never a minnow swimming up the Niagara Falls or even a whale trying the same miracle. These days property operations are only for the ultra capitalists who want to squeeze the mom and pop stores into bankruptcy . the same goes for minimum wage deals that strangle the stores to death. DEMOCRAT LED POLICIES KILL JOBS FOR EVERYONE but curiously already know the results of their folly and the slums they will cause . WAR ZONE STREETS are not an accident THEY ARE POLICY..I believe

[@HUNTR187]

Wait, you can’t arrange a flower without a license? What the heck does the license say? What about putting flowers together requires training or certifications?! I love these bottle neck videos but they hurt my soul sometimes.

[@thunberbolttwo3953]

Meaturama your first post was a insult.Op replied in kind.You deserved it.

[@thunberbolttwo3953]

Meaturama thank you fpr proving that you are a moron.Allso never tell what wjhat to do snowflake.I will what the hell that i want to do.

[@thunberbolttwo3953]

Meaturama i love how i trigered you snowflake.

[@thunberbolttwo3953]

Meaturama ah the trigered snowfl;ake is still talking to me.How cute.

[@thunberbolttwo3953]

Meaturama when you look up the deinition for stupid.You see your picture.

[@briarwentling5435]

I love his style of argueing both sides of the issue to get everyone's points across before coming to a conclusion

[@veg4life.]

those two kids are so adorable & so smart , bless their parents , these kids have a bright future ahead of them

[@wolfu597]

To me, John Stossel is the what I always imagined and thought how reporters were supposed to be. He's a true rarity. To all you youngsters who wants to become reporters/journalists in the future: Here is your role model, the way he does his job, the way he ask normal people on the street questions the MSM considers to be hate speech. We need MORE reporters like John, NOT less.

[@davelowe1977]

I never thought I'd say this, but you guys seem to need a permit or a licence to do anything. Incredible that it seems more complicated than the UK.

[@davel8116]

Right. By the way, is your TV license paid up? Are all of the doorknobs in your home accounted for?

[@imulippo5245]

Is America really a 'land of the free' these days?

[@mrow7598]

no

[@merendell]

It really depends on where you live but the general rule of thumb is this. The higher the population density and the longer its been that way the more liberal the area tends to be, the more liberal the area the more roadblocks are put in place to keep people from makeing an honest living.

[@davelowe1977]

Dave L I don't own a television.

[@SGT11B]

John Stossel are you the only quality investigative journalist left? Keep going brother. We need you now more than ever.

[@zang9147]

Tom Tunney is right. We need to focus on these food trucks, now that violent crime is not a problem in Chicago.

[@rubenclark8017]

That's great😲👍🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@pholdway5801]

Was it ever ? ( Irony involved ).

[@FurtherAM]

John Stossel you are the man!

[@nobodygrinder5667]

Political means too, with Trucking. I heard politicians want to ban the older trucks, make them obsolete. Some politicians been in office longer than my truck has been on the roads

[@logicmonkey1034]

John Stossels videos are becoming a hell of a lot meatier with info. This is absolutely great! Keep up the fantastic work john!

[@bluecollarnobody4217]

Another fine example of our great democracy of a government screwing things up for capitalists in the Free Will of the people

[@pocojoyo]

John Stossel looks so honest...his voice so honest...that I have to cry

[@qeoo6578]

"Lol who r these kids" 😂🤣😂🤣

[@L0CKTiTE]

John, your so factually funny when you do these videos. Love them.

[@killax7]

The two year round restaurants in my tourist attraction of a town in canada threatened to close their doors if the municipality didn't enforce some sort of fee for food trucks that take their business in the busy tourist summer and have no expense over the winter. The locals were all for it when it meant they weren't going to have any year round restaurant

[@garymcaleer6112]

John has always been the go-to guy for objective analysis. I've learned some important lessons from the man through the years. All the best in the coming year, John. May GOD always watch over you and those you love.

[@Moore-s5p]

I love the Tuttle twins! Adorable, I have their books for my kids too.

[@Shamus71]

I love food truck festivals.. I go to them when I can.

[@jameswiedmaier3930]

What I find ironic is people saying you shouldn't. use children. politically but democrats. use children. to get people to pass the Affordable Care Act.

[@Moore-s5p]

James Wiedmaier they are closet socialists. Bet they throw a fit Everytime they see a kid in a commercial too.

[@RedfishInc]

The feminist have little girls dropping f bombs in their latest political ads. Everything is on the table in the furtherance of their leftist agenda.

[@Nine-Signs]

Yes but dems don't wheel out a set of twins with instructions to lie to the camera about subjects they are too young to comprehend. They simply say "perhaps we should make sure kids have healthcare so they don't die" Hardly what you are describing now is it. If your politicians take money from lobbyists to do things for those people the lobbyists work for, that is not the fault of government, that is the fault of the economic system that incentivizes people to behave in that way by exploiting the human characteristic of greed and in that effect corrupts government. Welcome to capitalism. The cause of the symptom known as money in politics and bending governments into compliance with the wishes of the wealthy for 450 years. 200 years longer than your republic has been a thing. armyofall.wordpress.com/politicsmoney/

[@Moore-s5p]

ArmyOfAll lol Right.... www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/09/02/critics-decry-obamas-indoctrination-plan-students.html

[@Moore-s5p]

ArmyOfAll you just described socialism not capitalism. Socialists lobby to get government programs that benefit certain parties, public cost and private benefits. You know like insurance companies or abortion clinics, that isn't capitalism. You are confused.

[@Mack.Flurry3]

John Stossel is my spirit animal. Rawr!

[@ethansensbach5500]

Free the food trucks!

[@dongypooh]

A group always protects itself and its own interest.

[@ben41281]

The thing is without food trucks, some of us would be miserable. I'm a trucker by trade, and the company I work for has terminals all over, some of which don't have any sort of food on site. At those food trucks come to them, at different times of the day, without them we'd have no choice but to order delivery food that often costs way more, and isn't as good.

[@robertbeckom1962]

Those kids are precious, and so wise!

[@buffteethr]

I like eating in restaurants but sometimes I love getting stuff from Food trucks. Isn't America suppose to be the beacon for free market capitalism?

[@john172867]

I love how Stossel plays Devil's Advocate.

[@masteringthehumanexperienc1370]

A "brick & mortar" restaurant owner who thinks that food truck is a direct competition deserves to go bankrupt because he doesn't understand the fundamental mission of a restaurant business - to provide a dining experience, not to fill your belly. Food trucks address customers who want good food (keyword: good) at a reasonable price but cannot take the time to be seated, order, wait for the food to be prepared, wait for the bill etc... Two completely different market segments. A smart pizzeria owner would place a food truck in the immediate parking lot and get revenues both ways. The real competition for brick & mortar restaurants does not come from food trucks, but from grocery stores with sit-down deli & ready meals departments.

[@grawss]

This John Stossel guy is real journalism.

[@MirzaAhmed89]

No one forced the brick and mortar restaurant owners to go brick and mortar. They could easily have gotten food trucks themselves.

[@danyleon4870]

Well they'll require capital to do that. Some brick and mortar are not that solvent for credit.

[@williambilyeu9801]

The Tuttle Twins seem smarter than most politicians.

[@sumting-wong6176]

"I operate a restaurant..." conflict of interest much?

[@alcd6333]

The twins are adorable - and smart! Take their video and show it before Congress and different city councils. They have a lot more sense - and brains - than most adults.

[@khunopie9159]

Cupcakes. Yes, sweet cakes for all

[@gg-ni9xe]

Another example of regulations crushing small businesses...

[@kennethbowers2897]

The government wants to keep you down through the use of regulations and laws just because.

[@TheRisky9]

Food trucks are amazing. I worked in a warehouse that didn't have a cafeteria, so they gave permission for a food truck to come every day. That food truck probably made good money and it provided an essential service for the workers there. When I was running late in the morning, no time for food, that food truck was there.

[@knndyskful]

How long before Stossel gets banned?

[@vanillacokejunky]

was he already "banned" from regular TV? I remember I used to watch "Give Me A Break". what happened to that show.... at least i can still watch his content on youtube.

[@monadamus42]

They should drive their trucks into the restaurants yelling "Ha! You fools, you're stuck here like sitting ducks while I'm mobile af! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HA!" Then maybe they would travel across the country selling food on the run. Get a little bandit theme going? That'd be dope. I'd watch the movie

[@jeffwalls2871]

Thats why I voted for Trump...deregulation

[@notosure2148]

Yup, sadly he's a moron and deregulates things that serve to protect our waterways and air- instead of stupid shit like occupational licensing and lobbied monopolies.

[@ahope4u2]

Noto Sure .....takes one to recognize one.......understand?

[@ToastAndSashimi]

Libertarian thought in solid form. Thank you Mr. Stossel. Heinlein would be proud

[@maxradke2189]

How is lobbying even legal?

[@notosure2148]

Republicans and Democrats

[@vanillacokejunky]

excellent question, i don't think you'll get a quality answer on youtube though.

[@arribaficationwineho32]

Restaurants HATE food trucks but customers should have the choice

[@johnnya9001]

Love Stossel. Hate using kids like this.

[@Moore-s5p]

JohnnyA stossel isn't using the kids. Their dad is an author and they are the main characters in his books.

[@mitchell8940]

Well then there dad's fucked up

[@Moore-s5p]

Mitch Hop cus teaching your children about economics through a story is morally wrong, idiot.

[@vanillacokejunky]

he is just doing reporting on the kids, who are already involved with the topic. you might not agree with the delivery, but the message they speak is actually sound, which is probably why he felt compelled to include it.

[@ventureelect]

Darn those two kids stole my heart.

[@jranekse1167]

I cant stand when children are used to promote a political statement. They do as told. Its not their opinion. Its immoral.

[@Moore-s5p]

Jøran Ekse how are these children being hurt by their father writing children's books on economics? They are the main characters in the stories. How can it be immoral to teach children a work ethic and business sense. These kids are not being harmed, your criticism is misplaced. Do you complain Everytime you see a kid in a commercial or helping out in the family business? Their dad isn't running for office. Stossel isn't taking advantage of them when he promotes their books. Sounds like you are a closet socialist.

[@uncleruckus5121]

its called political pedofilia

[@Moore-s5p]

Uncle Ruckus except no one is running for office so what you say still doesn't make sense.

[@jebbush8491]

Yeah I agree, I don't like children being used as props for politics they don't understand.

[@Moore-s5p]

Jeb Bush then you should not be sending your kids to public school

[@Loveroffood41]

I live in Provo Utah and during the summer time every Thursday there is a food truck roundup where you can get as many as 10 food trucks in one area and it's absolutely amazing how busy some of these places get.

[@elysium76]

Whatever happened to healthy competition

[@mrrandyleighton]

Democrats happened.

[@pocojoyo]

This program is not biased at all. John Stossel can fight wrestlers with one arm.

[@Rambleon444]

This is a tough one. On one hand I am all for a free market. On the other hand people have invest their whole life savings to open an expensive restaurant, and than someone with a relatively cheap truck just pulls right up next to restaurant and takes away customers.

[@gregoryeverson741]

they arent taking away any customers, its called free will

[@Amateur_Pianist_472]

Then maybe they should've had a food truck rather than risk all their life savings.

[@circusboy90210]

Sell better food, a brick and motor have space a truck can't do things in and can never match the volume

[@Bob-yk9cz]

Agreed. Restaurants deserve at least some protection.

[@mrrandyleighton]

If a "cheap truck" serving food takes your business away, you're not providing that good of a service. An expensive restaurant should have nothing to fear from a cheap food truck. The people buying from the truck were not going to eat at the expensive restaurant...if there were, they wouldn't be eating from the truck.

[@zombiedude347]

There's very few places in my hometown that foodtrucks are aloud. They're pretty much stuck parking behind these roadblocks to starts of unbuilt roads. And they still can't do it in residential districts. Only ice cream trucks are given the authority to go to residential districts, and they can park anywhere.

[@algernonflowers2889]

Well Food, Inc kinda exposed the strength of how they control our groceries, I guess they are expanding into other sectors.

[@KalaVerag]

If your product is good and the service is good I don't think people should be worrying about a food truck

[@mikegrant8031]

It is not the restaurant they are protecting but the landlords rent base. Wich determines property value and the tax base, food trucks add nothing to the tax base.

[@gregoryeverson741]

i think food trucks pay a vendor fee

[@GarySmythe]

Food trucks have to pay registration fees every year, gas tax, business license, income tax, and probably more!

[@dm8867]

But the government wants HIGHER property tax Here is a business idea buy a parking lot and open it up for food trucks and out side seating

[@circusboy90210]

Yes they do add to the tax base. Tom gillerman has a conflict of interest

[@jordtilley]

Always great reporting sir

[@burgerking8280]

Rip food trucks

[@strangelyerect3047]

Fight nigga!

[@8BitSuperhero]

Thank you John Stossel

[@danbuster9571]

300 feet is fair, if you are selling the same product

[@spyderfreestone736]

yet another restaurant can open in three hundred feet of the other one. This is a clear abuse of power by the politician(also a restaurant owner).

[@RedfishInc]

What's wrong with competition? Competition is what built this country and drives companies to do better. Make a superior product and sell it at a reasonable price and it shouldn't matter if your competitors are 300 feet or 30 feet away.

[@r6guy]

+Josh Freestone not sure about that, most shopping centers don't allow more than one restaurant selling similar products.

[@medicfriends8163]

what jw mccabe said about the coffee shop is an absolute bull. if multiple coffee trucks end up selling the same shit right next to your store, you won't be able to make rent, guaranteed. probably doesn't even own the coffee shop, that's a load of horseshit

[@ericusmaximus2380]

Lots and lots of good arguments from both sides and the customers to

[@davel8116]

I don't know which is worse, roach coaches, or rat infested restaurants.

[@gregoryeverson741]

well most food trucks can be taken apart and cleaned

[@RedfishInc]

Well they both have to meet health department standards in order to operate.

[@GeorgeVCohea-dw7ou]

But one can drive around and avoid inspection. Is that fair or helpful?

[@mrrandyleighton]

I did not see any indication that any of those trucks were unsanitary.

[@jimterry8017]

I used to be very much a liberal. Coming from a Union state. But once I read John Stossel's give me a break it really got me thinking. I hope he keeps up the good work

[@NotFinancialAdvice0]

CONFLICT OF INTEREST, you're fired

[@__aceofspades]

One thing that's not addressed about food trucks is parking is an issue for the city/residents. A restaurant doesnt sit on the public street, and some of them build parking lots on their land. Food trucks take up public parking for long periods of time, everyday. Make food trucks pay to rent street space and then it's fair game.

[@johnglue1744]

Here in Atlanta from what I have seen there are usually set locations where food trucks congregate mostly . I mean they do go about near the city parks and such at times but usually they are in the same places like big parking lots of torn down buildings or repurposed just for the food trucks.

[@jroth87]

I own a mobile food cart and live in Arizona. Last year a bill was approved to loosen city and state regulations on mobile food operating laws. Things like allowing them to vend anywhere with right of way parking. City response to this state change however has been to limit right of way parking in areas and harassing mobile food business owners who are operating within their legal right. Some cities don’t allow you to operate in a park or any “adjacent parking space” to a public park which tends to be a matter of subjectiveness over zoning.

[@user-kp6eh2wp3o]

My mother had a lunch truck, that had been established for almost 10 years in Philadelphia. However, unlike the one entrepreneur that said his lunch truck business took off in 2008, my mothers business did exactly the opposite, falling apart in 2008.

[@Captainbadger123]

I love food trucks. Nothing’s better than having food available for purchase wherever you go

[@outdoorfreedom9778]

Another old post but a quick story. A friend owned a small restaurant in town. For a couple months he kept talking to me about getting a lunch truck so he could capitalize on his food. Finally another fellow in town bought a lunch truck that made the same type of food. That really upset him that someone beat him to it. He tried hiring a lawyer to keep the fellow from parking in a county visitors parking lot. The county wouldn't get involved and other type of food carts started parking there too. Then another food truck selling the same type of food showed up. The people made their choices and the two trucks are still there. He sold his place and now we have two restaurants and two carts. Surprise, the health inspector checks the trucks more often than the restaurants.

[@PrinceMeat]

Ok ngl john stossel has to be one of the best News investigator ever. He asked quesations rather or not he agress with it or not

[@Mbuzisana]

Best presentation of both sides that I've seen recently.

[@justageneraluser]

I like the way this was edited. 0:06 "They have good food at good prices"..."Bahahahahaha!"

[@chaoticB81]

Nobody makes me hate our government more than Stossel.

[@zombiekillingskater]

Think of the other guy. If you open up one food truck, you shut down a restaurant. How many food truck employees do they have? How many people does a restaurant employe? And employ beyond their direct business? Now close down an block for food trucks. Where does that leave the businesses?

[@SirWaffleGaming]

That is definitely not how the food industry works. If people want food from X, they go to X. Most of the time food truck vendors serve foods that would be to tedious and time consuming to get at a traditional brick a mortar store, even with delivery. If a business can deliver a similar product at a higher convenience and a lower cost, then you get a better service. What's the harm?

[@waterbottle4782]

I love these two kids.

[@Kaiyats]

Every restaurant: I CANT LET THEM HAVE SO MUCH AS A SINGLE CUSTOMER (cries) I JUST CANT AFFORD IT!!!

[@FurtherAM]

3:16 hahahaha "Man, the government can be so shady."

[@TheElectricCherry]

Competition is what makes products Better and the better one comes out on top.

[@Rah123-n4i]

I think food trucks shouldn’t be regulated like this, but I think they shouldn’t be able to park directly in front of another restaurant, since that’s be like a food truck, in front of another food truck’s window!

[@johnpagdilao6075]

As a former resident of Cook County. (The county that the city of Chicago is in.) I am so glad to have left, the sales tax alone is staggering, forget buying anything tobacco related there, and the recent repeal of the sugary drink tax is something, but it's too little too late.

[@scallywag1716]

When you have an "alderman" your city is corrupt. lol

[@garymoto661]

I love mobile food trucks. They have great food and excellent service.

[@josemmontes5810]

in my area groups of food tucks get together and rent parking lots or empty lots to operate from, it works well for everyone...

[@damnjustassignmeone]

I couldn't agree more. I live in NYC & it's nearly impossible to get a license to operate a food truck. It's government at its worst!

[@ConservativeEcoMOMic]

Great video. I know D.C. Carpenter, and he does great research for the defense of the little guy. Also, my son lived in Chicago for several years and hated how bad things were there because of its government.

[@ft9kop]

So this is why I couldn't find any food trucks in Baltimore when I went this summer. I was in the mood to see their street offerings and was quite disappointed. NYC on the other hand has awesome street food

[@aholegunner]

I love you John Stossel!

[@izzatys7037]

I love to buy food from food truck. It is flavourful, price reasonably and delicious! Plus, it is very convenient too. I would buy few takeaways and eat at a nearby park. Personally, I think food truck allows you understand the locals culture. While waiting for my food, I would chat with other buyers/sellers - everyone is friendly and make me feel so welcome (in a foreign land)

[@Constantine_xP]

I'm from the Uk, I watch cause I like your content!

[@bradbassett1240]

I get it!... Local brick and mortar restaurants have to jump through hoops as far as permitting, market research, etc...To have a food truck park outside your burger shop would suck!..