Sidewalk food vendors - taking it to the next level

[Cdog]

$500 Land yacht in black primer, no plates, full tank of gas & clean sidewalks.

Spray paint “Los Loco Vato’s” on the back.

Winning!

 

[LargeOrangeFont]

Keep buying from and paying for that McDonalds worker that needs to make $20 an hour but they have a good permit so you can believe you won’t get sick from it

I’ve eaten at a couple of these deals. Food was good, but it was not any cheaper than a fast casual place. I respect the hustle at least.

 

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It was decriminalized in 2019 I believe so it's not illegal. I've stopped many times and gotten food from them.

People get up in arms about it and I get their point of view because restaurants have to go through hell to keep their doors open and these guys can just pop up anywhere. The other side of the coin is these guys are out there busting their ass trying to put food on the table for their kids and pay their bills. They are doing what it takes and I'm not mad at them for that. You ever see any Mexican homeless people? very rarely because they do what it takes to survive.

No one is being forced to eat there and no one is stopping you from supporting your local restaurants. To each their own.

Restaurant owners and employees are busting their ass to and need that paycheck to feed their families...

 

[dirtslinger2]

Usually hard working families running them, putting out some mexico level taco's. All good in my hood.

 

[stephenkatsea]

Are these sidewalk eateries becoming ‘Americanized’ or is the US beginning to replicate the ways of country’s they came from? When it comes to eateries, public health requirements and inspections seem like a good thing.

 

[PlanB]

Are these sidewalk eateries becoming ‘Americanized’ or is America beginning to replicate the ways of country’s they came from?

The latter.

 

[Cdog]

Are these sidewalk eateries becoming ‘Americanized’ or is America beginning to replicate the ways of country’s they came from?

I’ve said it before “the foods gonna be great in hell” - me

 

[Taboma]

Yep, popping up all over...pomona, diamond bar, san dimas. Some are really good, some meh...
A friend of my SIL sets up in fontana somewhere. She reportedly pulls a couple grand a weekend. Her food is very good and she's very well liked of course.

I thought roach coach/catering trucks required inspections and licensing, these types of food venders do not ? I suspect this will turn into some venue like hot dog carts, where some company provides the carts, requires you to purchase from them, and you rent them from some guy named Guido.

 

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I think it's ironic that they put wheelchair ramps on the corners, yet these "vendors" completely block the sidewalk.

And "real" restaurants get lawsuits, and forced to close because they are not ADA compliant?

https://www.modbee.com/news/business/biz-columns-blogs/biz-beat/article281914943.html

We are swirling down the drain.

I was thinking about this. I'm surprised someone in a wheel chair isn't cruising around with an attorney behind them and getting "injured" and suing the City. These vendors blocking ADA ramps and sidewalks is a city problem unless they're on private property. When I was doing concrete work in the City of LA they were very clear to not fuck up as it will have to be removed and redone. Had one job someone grabbed the 1/2" deep by 1/2" radius joint tool which is pretty common to finish with except in the City of LA. All that concrete had to be redone with a 1/4" deep by 1/4" radius joint tool per city detail because anything bigger than a 1/4" deep and 1/4" radius can cause someone wearing high heels to trip. City did get sued for that.

 

[cofooter]

So this is okay too then....Just as long as it's not in your neighborhood. Until it isn't.

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Lovely

 

[t&y]

Declining into a poverty state. Drive around TJ, looks just like this. All that is happening is that shit is becoming normalized here.

 

[HTTP404]

I'm all about a good taco. But these things are getting out of hand. They are starting to clog up traffic where they setup. This isn't Mexico but it sure looks like it and I'm not down for that.

 

[Luvnlife]

I’ll never eat out of those fucking places. I worry about getting sick, and I don’t like it that they money off the legitimate places. Fuck those taco tents, fucking gross.

 

[HTTP404]

I was thinking about this. I'm surprised someone in a wheel chair isn't cruising around with an attorney behind them and getting "injured" and suing the City. These vendors blocking ADA ramps and sidewalks is a city problem unless they're on private property.

Good idea. I have a a wife in a wheelchair.

 

[SoCalDave]

Well at least they voted...

My BIL has a catering service he started less than a year ago. He's not a night vendor but mostly breweries and private events, maybe 2-3 times a week. Food is really good.

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[stephenkatsea]

So, you’ve these sidewalk operations who duck public health regulations and inspections. Do you really think they give a F about meeting or blocking ADA requirements?

 

[PlanB]

In South Central they are getting robbed and beaten.

We have had cart vendors fighting and stabbing each other in downtown San Diego over turf.

 

[Cdog]

Go steal their stuff & keep it under $1200.

Or hire Oakland in & out crew

 

[Cdog]

Rule 4: Make opponents live up to their own book of rules. "You can kill them with this, for they can no more obey their own rules than the Christian church can live up to Christianity." -Saul alinski Rules for radicals

 

[Joe mama]

Shit if these are ok I guess the hookers should be ok too. You know they have to support the family. They can line up and you can pick your taco.

 

[shintoooo]

Shit if these are ok I guess the hookers should be ok too. You know they have to support the family. They can line up and you can pick your taco.

Hold the cheese please

 

[stephenkatsea]

Usually hard working families running them, putting out some mexico level taco's. All good in my hood.

Growing up in So Cal, there were many places putting out some “mexican level taco’s”.They were owned and operated by hard working families. Those families were our neighbors. Ever heard of a “Hallenbeck burrito or the Cal Mex Cafe in E LA? Each were/are regulated and inspected outstanding Mex/American restaurants owned by Mexican American families.

 

[C-2]

Fuck those places, on principle alone.

 

[RiverDave]

I would honestly go to any restaurant that could put out the Al Pastor tacos and burritos that these outfits can, but all the Mexican restaurants around me suck. I don't know why these restaurants don't start putting out food like these sidewalk vendors? They don't even compare.

If I owned a restaurant that is exactly what I’d do.. I’d be quadrupling my footprint on the 4 blocks surrounding, paying zero taxes on those locations and no health inspections and using the kitchen to support the program with runners, outside tables and chairs.. restaurant itself most likely closed to the public so you can bypass all legalities. Lol

Grade A? B? Nope.. grade outside bitches!

 

[500bbc]

So this is okay too then....Just as long as it's not in your neighborhood. Until it isn't.

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That's where they pre prep..

 

[500bbc]

El queso esta viejo y podrido. Donde esta el sanitario?

En su mano!

 

[JUSTWANNARACE]

Shit if these are ok I guess the hookers should be ok too. You know they have to support the family. They can line up and you can pick your taco.

Who knows.. maybe you can get a hooker an 8 ball of blow and a carne asada burrito to go.. all in one stop

 

[samsah33]

I thought roach coach/catering trucks required inspections and licensing, these types of food venders do not ? I suspect this will turn into some venue like hot dog carts, where some company provides the carts, requires you to purchase from them, and you rent them from some guy named Guido.

Funny you mention that, I remember a while back seeing the bacon dog carts all over the place after an SC football game, and some were operating out of shopping carts, some had homemade carts, some had pro carts, etc...

Now I see them around Coachella Valley outside of events, and they are all in a nice row and all have the same carts, same uniforms and same prices. Someone obviously consolidated the cart business, paid off the venues for exclusive rights, and turned them into corporate bacon dog carts, which ironically defeats the whole purpose of why we would go to the street vendors to begin with...

 

[DrunkenSailor]

Two on my way home. The one in Tustin is actually listed on Google maps...

 

[500bbc]

I will support them 100% when restaurants and fast food outlets pay 0 taxes, have 0 insurance, are allowed to close their restrooms, pay all employees under the table etc. etc. etc.
Until then this is just more of a death from a thousand cuts.


They don't even get away with this bullshit in Mexico.

 

[monkeyswrench]

Declining into a poverty state. Drive around TJ, looks just like this. All that is happening is that shit is becoming normalized here.

Taco vendors in TJ pay to play. The all have to kick down to whatever lovely "organization" holds the plaza. Many of them also deal drugs of some type. I wonder if that's coming, or is here?

15-20 years ago I went with some buddies to a pretty nice Mexican bar...buckles and hats, lifted trucks and such. Like a Mexican country bar. There was a "restroom attendant"...need a condom?, a girl?...do a bump off the hand dryer? It was weird!

 

[NicPaus]

Taco Tuesday at the one on lomita and Normandie. $1 tacos. Probably 50 people in line now until sold out. Selling thousands of tacos on Tuesday. I hit it often as the local Mexican restaurant I like closes at 9pm and I have to be there by 820. I have supported them for over 25 years back when they owned the carniceria and Carne asada was $1.79. If I finish early that's where I am eating but doubtful. Have to move 1 dump trailer and load another and make it to the dump. And meet with a customer first. But tonight is birria tacos on special and craving a mango michelada caguama sol.

 

[rivrrts429]

They don't even get away with this bullshit in Mexico.

You would be incorrect lol

 

[500bbc]

You would be incorrect lol

Not the last time I was there. No.one blocking the sidewalks

 

[rivrrts429]

Not the last time I was there. No.one blocking the sidewalks

You have to leave the all-inclusive resorts to experience actual Mexico

 

[pull-on]

The slow killing of American business by using American Capitalistic Entrepreneurialism.

 

[redone76]

It was decriminalized in 2019 I believe so it's not illegal. I've stopped many times and gotten food from them.

People get up in arms about it and I get their point of view because restaurants have to go through hell to keep their doors open and these guys can just pop up anywhere. The other side of the coin is these guys are out there busting their ass trying to put food on the table for their kids and pay their bills. They are doing what it takes and I'm not mad at them for that. You ever see any Mexican homeless people? very rarely because they do what it takes to survive.

No one is being forced to eat there and no one is stopping you from supporting your local restaurants. To each their own.

Come visit Pacoima. I can throw a ball in any direction from the shop and hit a homeless Mexican or a taco tent.

 

[500bbc]

You have to leave the all-inclusive resorts to experience actual Mexico

I'm not including the gray haired Senoras pushing a Taco cart down a cobblestone street.

 

[DarkHorseRacing]

I’d be fine with it if held to the same standards as brick and mortar restaurants.

As they are not, I vote with my wallet and stomach to go elsewhere.

Also what happens when these places displace all the legitimate restaurants because they can’t compete on costs (or lack of)? Are we prepared to having nothing but food tents going forward?

You can have Mexico, I’ll go find someplace that isn’t fucked up.

 

[500bbc]

The slow killing of American business by using American Capitalistic Entrepreneurialism.

Over seen by government regulations for those that are legit.

 

[ultra26shadow]

I won't buy from them,they take business away from hard working people that have to pay rent for their brick and mortar restaurants.

Lol until you complain that you have to tip them.

 

[Mr. C]

Here's what I found:

In 2016, the city of Los Angeles decriminalized street vending. In November 2018, the city voted unanimously to legalize it. In September 2018, California Governor Jerry Brown signed the Safe Sidewalk Vending Act, or SB 946, which decriminalized street vending in throughout the state.

Why is beyond me. Other than wanting us to become a 3rd world country. What’s next. 5 yr olds selling chiclets

 

[dirtslinger2]

Why is beyond me. Other than wanting us to become a 3rd world country. What’s next. 5 yr olds selling chiclets

Those are called girl scout cookies.

 

[stephenkatsea]

Penche Guero Tacos in LHC, very small operation. Outstanding, regulated and inspected. They’re excellent ! No late night intersection activities.

 

[74 spectra20 v-drive]

I didn't read all the comments but this was in the news yesterday, a few cities are starting to ask for a business permit, insurance and require some type of inspection. As you can imagine they freaked out and bitched about how a I supposed to pay for all this.... the same as any other business' sir.

 

[Fabhouse]

I'm all about a good taco. But these things are getting out of hand. They are starting to clog up traffic where they setup. This isn't Mexico but it sure looks like it and I'm not down for that.

And I wonder where Julio the carne slinger takes a shit while on duty.

At least, the In-N-Out that clogs traffic (most of them do) pays taxes.
I do agree with both sides of this- Health inspections, necessary. Families working hard? Good for them.
I think there is a happy medium here, and it will never come to fruition because this will either be over or under regulated. Yeah government!

 

[Crazyhippy]

There are rules set in place with city codes to follow for a reason. Not enforcing them leads to bigger problems. Saying they are just trying to make a buck is a weak excuse to not obey the laws. This can of worms has exploded open< This country is Fucked.

State is fucked... Rest of the country still has some sense of decency.

 

[Smupser]

They’re everywhere and I mean everywhere


I was delivering in a nice housing development last week, dude was standing out in front of his house holding a sign that said “TACOS” Inside the garage he had a full on grilddle setup and tables and chairs. can’t imagine what his neighbors thought

 

[was thatguy]

Loophole?
What loophole is needed?
When you can legally shit on the sidewalk and openly shoot up heroin I wouldn’t think a food vendor is any big deal?

 

[76sanger]

Cartels putting their little drones to work to launder the drug money. Its damn sure there isn't any kind of permits for these.