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Saturday, August 4, 2012

Updated: Food Trucks Cancel Appearance at St. Louis Mills Today

Five local vendors were set to serve a variety of food in a mini food-truck roundup on Saturday during the back-to-school festivities at the mall, but the event was cancelled due to the upcoming thunderstorms.

Update 8:53 a.m.: Hazelwood Patch just received word that the food trucks have canceled their appearance at St. Louis Mills today due to the weather. We'll let our readers know if/when they reschedule, so stay tuned. The City of Hazelwood is home to many amenities, but when’s the last time you walked up to a truck and ordered your lunch? Around here, we don’t see many food trucks on the street. But many people rave about the unique and tasty fare food trucks can offer. Are we missing out? Good news for Hazelwood families—on Saturday, Aug. 3 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., you can indulge in a variety of food-truck offerings at the mini food truck roundup at St. Louis Mills. The five-truck event was organized by Josh Lemmon, owner of Burger Ink and…

Sunday, June 24, 2012

Food Truck Bans: Good or Bad for Business?

Regulators have discussed bans on them for "cannibalizing" local businesses. But is that anti-competitive?

It's happened most recently in Maplewood, where city leaders have discussed possible restrictions on where food trucks can operate — or even if they can operate in the city at all. Council members have said the trucks could cannibalize the existing brick-and-mortar businesses in the area. The city hasn't yet made a decision on the issue. Eureka bans the practice, which also came to light again several months ago when a Chesterfield cupcake maker tried to operate in the area and generated Facebook buzz when it didn't happen.  The Show-Me Institute has campaigned in its writings against the bans on food trucks, which it says are anti-competitive. In a recent post on the Maplewood situation, the authors said a move to ban food trucks would "…

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Tony

5:51 am on Tuesday, June 26, 2012

I think these are good points that could be mitigated by having a designated area of the public street whee food trucks could operate. Rather than mire it down in complex formulas as to who can operate where and when (and I dont think you are doing this) a simple area or areas where food trucks can pull over and operate (like a no parking zone except a food truck parking zone). I'm also not …   more ›

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