How do you feel about food trucks? Gimmicky and tacky? Or do you enjoy them?

convenient when done right (dedicated spaces in a food park, normal prices), useless otherwise.

I don't want to play a guessing game about where food may or may not be, I don't want to pay 2x for something I can get somewhere else. just be a normal mobile restaurant on a schedule.

>>21464117 (OP)
They used to be cheaper than restaurants and now they're more expensive

>>21464117 (OP)
if you eat from one of these you deserve to get food poisoning

>>21464117 (OP)
We have a handful that cycle through the lot at work on a schedule. One is really good, the others suck ass. Used to have a other good one, but they turned into a restaurant and stopped trucking.

9 times out of 10 they are gimmicks or some 'tard thinking they can make good food shilling meh food. The 1/10 is the actual good one that people like and get featured in TV bits and shit.

It's nice if you are a working stiff - food comes to you instead of you going to the food. Especially if you don't have a good corporate cafeteria. I've been to contractor ones that are damn good, but where I am at nuked the good shit we had during covid. Still salty about that.

both.

i enjoy a gimmick if it's novel.
some trucks are delusional though. i am not paying $20 for a grilled cheese.

>>21464137
Exactly! doesnt make sense to pay more for something with way less overhead

>>21464117 (OP)
>not only will we make you chase us down following our tweets each night, we'll overcharge you for a mediocre burger crafted out of our shitbox truck for instagram points, btw no seating you need to take your slop and depressingly eat it in the dark of your car
this industry is exclusively the domain of hipster retards

Hit or miss. Best Cuban I ever had was from a food truck in Orlando.

convenient when they're outside a bar, otherwise I'd usually avoid them

what used to be for the working man was turned into faggot hipster shit

>>21464137
This, for me they need to offer something that's not easily available to and from my house to justify the price.

>>21464566
You'll live.

>>21464436
It makes sense but it's not viable.
>Someone buys a food truck
>Couldn't buy it and the equipment outright so it's all leased or on contract
>Wants to pay it off faster
>Deludes themselves that they are making restaurant quality food but adding convenience so can't charge more
>That means debt paid off quicker
Problem is it doesn't work that way

>>21464566
thats a roach coach and they still exist around me if you tell the guy the day before he will pick stuff up special order

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>>21464117 (OP)
overpriced shit made by pretentious retards

>>21464117 (OP)
>feel
leave.

>>21464117 (OP)
I like them. They're a good value in my neighborhood.

>>21464434
I had that happen with a lobster roll truck.

>>21465178
I saw a truck selling lobster rolls for like $30 but to be fair we're in the fucking midwest.

>>21464117 (OP)
New Yorker here. We have a few different kinds.

The first are the neighborhood staples, some of which have been there for decade, selling good food priced for working people. Office districts like midtown and FiDi, and all over the outer boroughs, are where you find these. Nightlife centers have some good ones too. There's a taco truck down the street from me that I've enjoyed many times after nights of drinking.

Then you have the ones that locals go to occasionally because they're just that good, but word has gotten out so we go when tourists aren't clogging them up. Adel's Halal is a good example of this.

Then you have the ones that show up at food fairs, like Smorgasburg, selling $20 okonomiyaki and stuff like that. Now, some of these can be actually good, but some aren't, and they're all priced for tourists and others with more money than sense. Admittedly sometimes I just don't care and I'll splurge on something dumb from one of these.

They're an integral part of the food scene here and I appreciate the more interesting ones.

>>21464121
>I don't want to pay 2x for something I can get somewhere else
GF dragged me to one that was charging $15 for a simple grilled cheese. Even she thought that was moronic so we settled on some $12 noodle bowls. The bowls were tiny and we were both hungry still but didn't want to spend another $24 on lunch.

>overpriced
>most don't have online reviews to check quality
>usually have to wait way too long
They are vastly inferior to the random stands that serve 1 or 2 things. At least with them, you see the product right there, and costs are lower. With a food truck, it's this whole ordeal to pay $25 for some mediocre noodles or some shit.

I'm not buying food from a truck

>>21464117 (OP)
Theres a few in my village that do tacos, bbq and pizza. They're all pretty good, a bit pricy but theres not much in the way of restaurants here unless you want to drive 30 miles.

>>21464117 (OP)
burger king have food trucks? that's akin to a goyslop product disguised as "homemade". I'm my mind, food truck owners are dedicated to their craft and pour time, heart and money into they jobs. This... this is just sad... at least it's gone in smoke, yay!

You ever wondered where the cooks wash their hands after shitting? Yeah, I don't touch food from food trucks

>>21465337
>You ever wondered where the cooks wash their hands after shitting?
in my cunt they are legally required to have hot running water and soap. also they dont come with toilets, meaning the place they use to shit will have the same facilities. sucks for your shithole cunt i guess

I know someone who has a food truck and he's a douche who enables a habitual drunk driver. I do what I can to tank his already floundering business.

>>21464137
Pretty much this.
They were good like 15 years ago, now you’re paying restaurant prices to eat in a parking lot in most places.

>>21465646
What food does he serve?

>>21465646
You mean like putting sugar in his tank?

>>21465656
It changes regularly.

>>21465662
No, like persuading people not to go there, negative PR, etc.

>>21465178
$20 would actually be on the low end for a decent lobster roll in current year. It's always been overpriced tourist food, but it's still enjoyable a few times each summer, IF you get it from a stand/truck with appropriate New England seaside ambiance.

>>21465238
>lobster roll
>midwest
Are you having a fooking giggle, m8?

>>21464117 (OP)

A nearby brew pub used to have them come around fairly often (until it got a pizza oven) and the food was always good, even if on the expensive side but then it's not like I was eating it everyday, so no big deal.

>>21464566

Back in the 1990s when I was a machinist, we had a roach coach come round twice a day and it was really good, as they had all kinda "hot plate" type foods like baked chicken, meatballs, mashed potatoes, mostaccioli, mac & cheese, etc. and could load up a paper plate with whatever you wanted for like $5-6.

>>21465250
Yeah New York is a different beast. No food trucks in my small town which I’m desperately trying to escape

They are good if you work in an office or live in a walkable city but complete shit everywhere else in America. In my experience, they turn into restaurants if the food is good enough and then nearly double the price and reduce the portions. Meanwhile, especially during covid, some failing restaurants would make a food truck to still keep a business but after obtaining all the licenses required, couldn't be a bothered with reopening their buildings. I would say around eight years ago they were perfectly set up in US. They were pricier than they should have been but followed the action of the crowds and offered unique things that the area maybe wasn't used to seeing. Now every moron starts one and serve ludicrously overpriced slop. I know someone who got a massive enough ego boost to start one of these by getting a single compliment during a barbeque.

When you find one you like, it sucks because there's no guarantee they will be there again. You're hoping for a dining experience that can live up to the cost, the inconvenience of eating it in uncontrolled locations, be able to park where it is, and still be convenient enough to be served in a food box. The odds are heavily stacked against them. That's why I hate it when the conversation against them only talks about sanitary concerns since their licenses are actually way stricter than restaurants to compensate already.

they've always been around and it completely depends on the food truck, I imagine it hits differently if you live in a corn field and some big city hipster from Omaha just showed up with a food truck peddling strange and exotic foods like fucking tacos

The state capitol here decided rather than having fireworks for the fourth of july, they'd have a fucking food truck convention.
I liked "food trucks" better when they were portable trailers brought to state and county fairs because nobody's running such a thing next to "real" restaurants.

>>21464566
>>21464894
>>21466482
Fucking based gut truck/roach coach enjoyers. Always loved the pizza when I was in Monterrey CA.

idk how they're all like 50% more than most restaurants, surely the overhead in operating one of these is lower than owning a building

>>21468193
a building is rented out at market price.
street food spots are auctioned off.

>>21468193
You would think so, but no. Between all the regulations and red tape you have to jump through just to get it running, you then have to fight the city/township just to set up for a day or two.

>>21464117 (OP)
>saw an overpriced faggoty one selling $10 for fries
>quietly poured water into their generator gas tank when no one was looking
True story