Should Food Trucks Be Allowed To Protect Food Restaurants?

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Today, food trucks have existed for a long while now, they remake the entire way we can get our food, and some say that the growth in the food truck industry is unpredictable and unfair to the typical brick and mortar restaurants that we all know and love. There should be rules and regulations placed against food trucks to protect restaurants because they can pose an undefeatable threat to local businesses, they attempt to be a restaurant as much as they possibly can, and they can be risks to public health and safety. To start with, food trucks pose a threat that businesses would not be able to deal with, more specifically. Food trucks should not be allowed to park in front of another restaurant. According to Source D, many food truck owners complain that there should …show more content…

This is unjust because of the fact that a food truck can just come by another restaurant and steal their business. Some may argue that is all fair and merely competition, but it is unjust in the fact that restaurants pay to be there with their utilities and rent while a truck can just swing by on a whim and make just as much money as the restaurant does, which brings me to my next point. As mentioned before, restaurants pay for their space with their utilities and rent while a food truck can just swing by and make just as much money as the restaurant does, which brings me to my point of food trucks trying to mimic a restaurant as much as they can. Provided in Source E is a cartoon made to mock food trucks for trying to appear as a restaurant, in the drawing you can see a truck with tables and chairs on top making it look like a knockoff restaurant. This matters because food trucks abuse the lack of rules and regulations against them to manipulate the competition as they see

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