The Latest Weapon in the Vendor Wars is… Sidewalk Planters!?
If you haven’t been following the battle going on between the new El Rey del Sabor Cart and the Greek hot dog vendor on 44th 43rd btw. 6+7th, here’s a quick recap. El Rey del Sabor moves their third cart to 44th 43rd and 6th. Hot dog vendor gets very angry. The fight is caught on video. A few days later the cops show up and get involved. Numerous reports come in from Lunchers observing a noticeably angry looking hot dog vendor every single time anybody buys anything from the new Mexican cart. And now, there’s the latest… two planters have been placed on the part of the sidewalk that El Rey del Sabor was using.
But here’s the crazy thing, the building denies doing it…
According to Lunch’er Harry P., who was kind enough to send in the photo, the planters were not put there by the building- and security guards told El Rey del Sabor that the building management was pissed. Wha!?! Does this mean that the hot dog vendor installed two planters on the sidewalk over the weekend to keep El Rey del Sabor out? That would be kind of insane…
Related:
Vendor Fight Over 6th Ave. Spot Caught on Video
Rule #1 of Vendor Fight Club is You Don’t Talk About Vendor Fight Club
Posted by Zach Brooks at 9:30 am, September 1st, 2009 under El Rey Del Sabor, Street Vendor Issues.
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I doubt the building installed those considering how sloppy the glue looks. That’s hilarious!
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Are these the same planters that are in the video? Look the same to me. minus the sloppy cement job?
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Upon further inspection of the video the planter closest to the Greek cart was moved over a bit and the one on the opposite side of the cart got moved to the where the fight took place.
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Both planters have been removed from the contested turf/previous location of El Rey. Looks like someone tried to clean off the goo.
Anyone know where they went?
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Just got back from El Rey. Mean looks from vendor next door. Kind of disappointing lunch. No sopes. No Al pastor. Only chicken and beef. Chicken was dry, not seasoned. Beef was better but overall very average. Is this standard for them?
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saul – don’t think so. They had a long line from 11:45 – 1pm apparently. We cleaned them out of food.
@chris6sigma my thoughts exactly. they totally jacked it from somewhere in the middle of the night.