The evolution of the gourmet food truck trend | CharlotteObserver.com & The Charlotte O... - 0 views
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people have been buying what's known as street food for generations.
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Good Humor ice cream says the company's first trucks hit the road in 1920. And trucks selling breakfast and lunch items have been feeding workers at factories and other commercial sites for decades.
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Chicago is behind the rest of the country because it has ordinances that restrict trucks from parking within 200 feet of a restaurant.
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people in their 20s and 30s who are interested in a career in the food industry, but rather than work for someone else, "they want to be able to express themselves and do it in their own way," Higar says.
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While food trucks have become extremely popular these days, they have been around as early as the 1800's! Before the gourmet food trucks started to pop up, street vendors selling hot dogs, pretzels and lunch food for office workers have been around for decades. Now with more and more people out of work or people who want the ability to be more creative with their own food with a small budget, food trucks have become more popular. However some cities have restrictions such as Chicago, where a food truck cannot be parked within 200 feet of a restaurant. LA, the government limits the number of permits issued for mobile food vendors because of the street congestion it produces. Permits are also limited because traditional restaurants don't want to compete with the low priced street vendors.