As someone who has worked a food truck in Boston, I've seen how they can work - and work spectacularly well to provide a breath of fresh air in the local food scene.
Take Boston's program (provided spots & lottery system), improve upon it, and you've got a win. Ditch the current, obsolete since day 1 ordinance, adopt a winning system from Boston, Seattle, LA (just to name a few cities doing it right on food trucks), and watch the city's food scene reinvent itself almost overnight.
Since you were ,are in the food truck business -please comment more. I agree the original ordinance, that I do not see this City doing anything about now except talk ,was ridiculous. More people in this City should open their eyes to how their Administation limits the marketability of this City for no ,researched reason ,except to benefit a few at a great cost to the City.
Please get other truck people to comment on problems with this City versus others.
Gayle, you asked. I'll do my best to add to my original comment.
I worked at a food truck company that had 3-4 trucks out for lunch daily, plus catering, plus what they called "pop-ups" - where we basically did on-site sales, but the same prep work as catering. We worked not only in Boston, but also Watertown, Malden, Waltham, Cambridge, and Lexington. I can't speak to how the permitting process worked, but my former employer can:
https://youtu.be/WKfOfkcXOI0
Lunch rush was our niche, but so was dinners outside colleges - namely Northeastern and BC. Our crowd was mainly college students and office workers, but our goal was good food quick and cheap. ($7/plate + extras) The short two months I worked there (and I was there in the slow period), people would stand 50 deep in line waiting to order. Name me a single restaurant in Worcester that, at lunch time, has a similar line. You won't find it. And that, is why I firmly believe in food trucks.
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