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It's not the food industry that needs disrupted; it's the real estate industry. The small ethnic dining establishments operated by first or second generation i
by shawnee_ 15y ago
It's not the food industry that needs disrupted; it's the real estate industry. The small ethnic dining establishments operated by first or second generation immigrants tend to be easy targets for real estate scum. The landlords suck up all their profit; the immigrants just do what they do best: work hard without complaining.
- dgallagher 15y agoThere's been a large influx of food trucks appearing over the past few years. PBS's Need to Know did a story about it in October 2010 (~8 mins): http://www.pbs.org/wnet/need-to-know/culture/street-smarts-the-proliferation-of-gourmet-food-trucks-on-city-streets/4187/ http://www.pbs.org/wnet/need-to-know/culture/street-smarts-t... Restaurants hate them, since they don't have to pay the overhead of rent/property taxes. Plus, they can park directly outside a restaurant and steal their business. No need to deal with any landlord. It's getting political though; brick & mortar restaurants are very much against them for obvious reasons.