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Back Bay residents go hungry
By JohnAKeith on Wed, 07/13/2011 - 8:18pm
Today was scheduled to be the day that 15 food trucks first turned on their grills to serve hungry Boston patrons.
According to Boston.com, however, "at least nine" of the 15 trucks were not in their assigned locations, many of which are located in the Boston Proper neighborhoods.
Delays in permitting and trucks / equipment problems were blamed. The city's point-person on the project reminded people this was just "the launch of a pilot" program that would be rolled out over the next year.
It was just a year ago (July 14, 2010) that City Councilor Michael Ross filed a measure to hold a hearing on how to regulate the trucks.
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Diane DeMarco, owner of the
You need GPS to serve cupcakes from a van?
There is something inherently
There is something inherently wrong with the concept of permanent food trucks. They have wheels, they should be going to different places. Permanently locating them is so Boston.
The locations are permanent, the trucks aren't
The city has permanently assigned locations where food trucks can park, but they are supposed to rotate around the various locations.
How are you supposed to
How are you supposed to figure out where they are located at any given time? The city's website is terrible, and I think it just gives locations where the trucks could be, not where they actually are.
There's an app for that (of course)
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/eat-st./id425451799...
Seems to work for Boston.
How about something radical for once
and instead we simply choose not to regulate food trucks into an infeasible mess like so many other cities?
Do back bay residents mind stealing bread
from the mouths of decadents?
They're going hungry... going hungraaaaaayyyyyyyy....yuh
"Back Bay residents go hungry"
Do they also not mind stealing bread from the mouths of decadence? (My head's still in last weekend's Soundgarden show)
lol
awesome! :)
One of the grilled cheese
One of the grilled cheese trucks seems to be summering besides Gourmet Caterers dump of a base on the Rosi/JP line. Hard to imagine how wholesome food is going to come out of a place that filthy.
This whole thing reminds me of the Pabst Blue Ribbon fad, where something that's part of working class existence is turned into a hipster statement in an ironically doomed quest for authenticity ....
Get offa my lawn
Taco trucks were all the rage in 1998 when I was in college. You whippersnappers only think you've discovered something new and trendy.
(Uphill both ways, with no shoes, etc.)