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This is also the case in Boulder, CO. In addition to that, each truck is required to install a fire suppression system that start around $3,000.
by NickBusey 8y ago
This is also the case in Boulder, CO. In addition to that, each truck is required to install a fire suppression system that start around $3,000.
- jimmaswell 8y agoGotta love when regulations are why we can't have nice things.
- matt4077 8y agoThis reads like a complaint about vaccines because nobody has seen Polio in like a lifetime... Just as a reminder: Up until the early 20th century, any large city that wasn't home to a Molasses-based catastrophe had at some point burned more or less completely down, usually killing thousands: Chicago, SF, London are well known.
- alonmower 8y agoNot sure if you were alluding to this with your comment but people DO complain about vaccines because they haven't seen the widespread ill effects of their not existing
- Kalium 8y agoIt's highly probable that the commenter to which you have responded chose their wording precisely because of how correct your point is.
- vec 8y agoIf by "nice things" you mean salmonella and grease fires, then sure. Not to defend Boulder, specifically, but when thinking about regulations it's really easy to tally up "all" of the costs and benefits without crediting them for the nonexistent costs of the bad things that didn't happen.
- WillPostForFood 8y agoIt’s just as easy easy to justify regulation by adding up all the imaginary costs that will be avoided.
- jonwachob91 8y agoKitchen Fires and food poisoning are not imaginary.
- jimmaswell 8y agoHow exactly does preparing food in the truck lead to food poisoning? Why doesn't your backyard grill need a fire suppression system?
- jonwachob91 8y ago1) If cooked food comes in contact with a surface that raw meat was prepped on, the cooked food can become tainted. 2) Most cities fire code say that your backyard grill is required to be a certain distance from the building structure (my local ordinance says 15ft), it just so happens that most people ignore the local ordinances. Those codes are b/c of grill fires.
- tokyodude 8y agoLarge portions of the world don't have these regulations and seems to be doing just fine. Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Singapore to name a few are full of food stands preparing food at the stand.
- ivirshup 8y agoFunny you should mention Singapore, as the government moved all of the street hawkers to "hawker complexes" and there is a lot of regulation around food hygiene[1]. [1]: http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/infopedia/articles/SIP_1637_2010-01-31.html http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/infopedia/articles/SIP_1637_201...
- avar 8y agoA quick search reveals https://www-static.bouldercolorado.gov/docs/Mobile_Food_Vehicle_Application_2017-1-201611231158.pdf https://www-static.bouldercolorado.gov/docs/Mobile_Food_Vehi... > a restaurant fire suppression system shall be required for all cooking operations that produce grease-laden vapors. These systems can be activated automatically or manually to dispense chemicals to suppress the flames of a fire I.e. it's not "each truck". You can have a food truck that doesn't create that particular fire hazard without an expensive fire suppression system.