The food trucks have disrupted the sit-down restaurant business in some cities. I liked this brief post about trucks in downtown LA near the Fashion Institute

The food trucks have disrupted the sit-down restaurant business in some cities. I liked this brief post about trucks in downtown LA near the Fashion Institute (FIDM) because it gets in to several aspects of the disruption: http://blogdowntown.com/2011/01/6013-food-trucks-near-fidm-serve-up-controversy http://blogdowntown.com/2011/01/6013-food-trucks-near-fidm-s... * The fight over parking spaces (food truck employees "reserving" street parking with their own cars, in advance of a later arrival of the food truck itself) * Parking tickets as equivalent of rent * Increases in options and quality * Disruption of incumbent and lazy chains