On The Scene at the Santa Monica Food Truck Lot, Day Two: Lot Closed Down by City of Santa Monica
By Ryan - Tuesday January 05th 2010 |
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Mayhap you saw the tweet by Victor already, live at the scene. If not, let it be known that the Santa Monica Food Truck Lot is, at present, closed, the issue being that the lot’s zoning language does not explicity state “food truck use”. New language will need to be added and approved before the trucks may begin doling out those cute, tasty, cute-and-tasty and occasionally neither-cute-nor-tasty sub-$10 meals to aficionados of the westside gourmet lonchera scene.
Certainly not the first time The Man has clashed with a conglomeration (coalition?) of food trucks in our fair city. Anybody remember 5750 Wilshire Blvd a few months back? Stick around for full details as they trickle in. Meantime, solidarity tweets may be directed here: @SMFoodTruckLot
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Frysmith Truck set up shop for lunch at Wilshire/Granville, just up from the Calbi truck. Both seemed to be doing decent business.
Tried to hit the trucks for lunch today and saw an empty lot. Looked like others were confused too. Thanks for the explanation.
Can a local luncher enlighten me? Is there enough business in THAT particular neighborhood to support 8+ trucks at the same time?
Yeah, I can’t see it myself either. I can see a rotation of maybe 4 trucks at a time working at most. Any more than that and they start to cannibalize each other’s business. That spot will still take a dedicated drive for most to get to, so they will want to keep parking on the lot itself. St. John’s hospital is probably the biggest possible target office audience in that immediate hood and even still it’s a pretty long walk for them.
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