Dear Editor:
Alright, I have to confess as a former food truck owner/chef, Hoboken Foodie my website is partial to street food! There’s just something about these commercial kitchens on wheels that make my blood flow. Now Hoboken is in the middle of City Council meetings discussing the future of food trucks in the mile square city and I hope they don’t make it impossible for these mobile restaurants to operate. In my opinion, the gripe that restauranteurs have that these trucks are taking business from them is hogwash! What’s the difference if another restaurant opened across the street?
Yeah, yeah, now comes the B.S. that these food trucks don’t have the expenses that “brick and mortar” joints have……more hogwash! What ever happened to free enterprise? Some of these mobile entrepreneurs have more. Most of these trucks cannot be leased as can most restaurants so the owners have to pay up front and some of these trucks are in excess of $100,000. That’s right “a hundred grand”! They are also burdened with a higher insurance nut every year. And another thing is that someone grabbing a taco off a truck wasn’t teetering with the idea of sitting down at Augostino’s. These street food vendors offer an affordable alternative to a lot of the restaurants. So in closing please support these mobile gourmet gurus!
Paul Fried