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Originally Posted by Jazuela

My opinion - if restaurant owners are that threatened by food trucks, then perhaps they should do a better job marketing their own. Or providing a better experience for their customers. Whether by lower prices, or smaller portions, more variety, more daily specials, point incentives, or maybe even just adding some soundproofing material to their ceilings so 10 people in a building doesn't sound like a herd of buffalo stampeding through the city.

So, a rhetorical question. You own a restaurant that you sunk your life savings into. You pay your lease plus property tax and perhaps common area maintenance fees. A health department license for a fixed establishment which is 3 times the cost of a transitory license. And whatever taxes, fees, etc. the local authorities can come up with because you are a "brick and mortar" site.

Along come a food truck who maybe pays a couple hundred dollar fee to park their portable restaurant around the corner from your family establishment. They siphon off 15% of your customer base and then leave. How would you feel?