Jersey City, N.J. has tabled a proposal restricting mobile food vendors after the vendors objected, according to the Jersey City Independent. The proposal requires a 60-minute limit on mobile food vendors staying in one location before having to move a quarter of a mile. It also requires the vendors to maintain a distance of 100 feet from each other and restricts food trucks from operating within 300 feet of a "brick and mortar" establishment.
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Editor's Insight: Restaurants are doing everything they can to stifle competition from mobile food trucks. The best restaurants can hope to accomplish is to temporarily hold off the competition; courts are not going to deny a class of businesses the right to be in business.
Gourmet mobile food trucks meet a consumer need very effectively. They not only pose a competitive threat to traditional restaurants, but to all foodservice, including vending. 05-13-11 by Elliot Maras
