"Edwin Pawlowski" > wrote:
> > wrote in message
>
> > Yeah, very surprised by the complexity...
> >
> > I was working in VA (just outside DC) a few years ago. There was a farm
> > near my office complex. One of the farmers would smoke a large pig
> > every day in a homemade smoker he kept right by the road. At lunch
> > time, we would all go over there to get $5.00 plates of pretty decent
> > Q. By 2:30 he would sell all the meat and always had a pretty
> > impressive wad of cash (income tax free).
> > When I lost my job, I stopped in for my last meal and thought to myself
> > "..this guy with a 3rd grade education has the best gig in town and
> > sleeps much better than me....".
> >
> If you read the history of barbecue, there were many people that did that
> sort of thing. Probably the best food you can get. Today, they'd take
> you to court and take away the family farm in court costs and fines.
>
> Check out the requirements for a catering truck to comply with all the
> laws.

Here in Los Angeles, the requirements are brutal, not only for the truck
but for your base of operations. While they're called 'Roach Coaches', if
they find on roach, dead or alive, or one rat turd, you're shut down. I
forget what the re-inspection to let you operate again costs, but it's much
more thorough, if that's possible.

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