Comments on: Prediction: New Carts & Trucks Are About to See Some Serious Backlash

By: meyekull

meyekull — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:35:13 +0000

@coyote

It’s not like they are Good Humor trucks driving up and down the street ringing their bells. They all park somewhere anyway, and if you read the above article, are running out of a place to park. This could be a Tuesday safe haven for them.

They wont HAVE to park in BP – It would just be an option for them, and I only suggested one day a week.

By: meyekull

meyekull — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:32:16 +0000

It couldn’t be worse than the generators that provide heat, light and power for the Fashion Week tents.

By: coyote

coyote — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:31:33 +0000

I don’t want “Food Truck Tuesdays” at Bryant Park. I don’t work anywhere near Bryant Park. I want food trucks going up and down Manhattan and parking in different places.

Putting all the trucks in one place defeats the point of a truck.

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:08:29 +0000

@meyekull I think the trucks together with their generators going would not be very pleasant

By: T.C.

T.C. — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:03:33 +0000

Oh damn. I gotta check it out if Food Truck Tuesdays or somehting liek that happens at Bryant Park. Thanks goodness it’s only 12 mins walk for me. Haha.

By: meyekull

meyekull — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 15:43:23 +0000

Its going viral

http://www.twitter.com/midtownlunch We Support Food Truck Tuesdays in @BryantParkNYC On gravel path around grass. RT if U agree http://bit.ly/WpPHT

By: Danny

Danny — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 15:27:00 +0000

@meyekull
great idea! I would only change one thing, the nominal rent part. That’s exactly why all the food vending permits are taken and why people renew $200 permits of dead people and then turn around to charge $10,000 in some shady deal in the black market. Any time there’s competition for a scarce number of spots, we run into the problem of setting the nominal rent at a price point that’s too low. For example, if all the hot dog and pretzel vendors apply first to the Bryant Park idea, do you take then first? So you have a park full of hot dogs and pretzels? Naw son. That ain’t no good. Or do you say, “We only take the cool trucks!” and then Bryant Park gets sued for discriminating against non-english speaking vendors.

By: Danny

Danny — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 15:22:13 +0000

Ok, so they called. Then what? We need to how this went down.

I dunno but personally there’s only a few ways to deal with bullies. And fuck this respect who was there first BS. That stuff is just so annoying, and it’s exactly why we still have a million shitty dirty water dog vendors.

Why the hell would we want to continue to endure nasty food just because nasty food was there before good food?

By: katemalay

katemalay — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 15:16:25 +0000

@meyekull I like your Bryant Park idea.

By: katemalay

katemalay — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 15:08:34 +0000

I would hope that the trucks would not park directly in front of a business with the same product offering. That seems like a poor way to get chummy with the neighbors (and I do believe in “respect your elders… or whoever was there first”). Also, I had a nasty accident and had to take an ambulance ride recently, and the owner of the business we were parked in front of was rightfully pre-tty peeved about the exhaust fumes from my ambulance seeping into his restaurant on a Saturday night. So that’s an issue with any big truck with an engine on.

That said, I don’t care how good a cupcake looks, if I’m planning to spend my $10 at a deli salad bar and sit there and read a New Yorker, I’m going to spend my $10 at a deli salad bar. The recession stinks, yes, but I worry we’re at a point where we’d blame the wind for bad business if it blew hard enough.