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Originally Posted by Aloha1
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?
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I'd feel like I had a slow day that day. If it was a permanent 15%, I'd try and figure out what I've done wrong that would inspire 15% of my customer base to trade my food for food truck fare, and do what I need to do, to improve.