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Default Food Truck Stands (WAS: Jon Favreau film ˇ§Chefˇ¨ premiering at SXSW Film)

On 1/10/2014 5:36 PM, gtr wrote:
> On 2014-01-10 19:54:35 +0000, jmcquown said:
>
>>>> The food truck was on that same patch for maybe two months. Then it
>>>> disappeared. I suspect they were run off. They probably didn't have
>>>> permission to set up where they did. Nor a license to sell food. Who
>>>> knows where the stuff they were cooking came from?
>>>
>>> They may have been renegade cooks. Food trucks are subject to the same
>>> food service safety regulations and inspections as restaurants.

>>
>> Uh, yes. That's why I think they fled. The hadn't bothered with
>> health dept. certificates. They could have been selling drugs, too.
>> <shrug> At any rate, they didn't hang around for long.

>
> How was business? Two month's is enough to clear a zillion or two
> zillion dollars depending on the traffic.
>

I dunno. I never saw anyone buying food from them. They were parked
right across from a park where some people like to loiter.

Jill