food trucks
With Nigerian dishes like fried oxtail, puff puffs and Egusi soup, this truck was bound to stand out and succeed.
(Washington Informer) — Ronald Shelley leans against a streetlight outside the Navy Yard metro station. He is among a crowd of people filling the sidewalk along New Jersey Avenue in Southeast, making it look as if one of the office buildings buffering the Washington Navy Yard has been evacuated. There is no life-threatening emergency, Shelley, […]
(Chicago Sun Times) — If Chicago legalizes mobile food trucks with cooking on the premises, they should be confined to “food deserts” and neighborhoods with a shortage of restaurants, the president of the Illinois Restaurant Association suggested Monday. “If these things really work by social media, they could just go to food deserts. There are […]
(Wall Street Journal) — Tiffany Kurtz was cruising the downtown streets here in her powder-blue van when a group of women flagged her down. She punched her hazard lights on, pulled into a loading zone and began selling her wares. Within minutes, a police officer rolled up with his lights flashing. “We’re stopping the sale […]
(Crain’s) — Lunchtime in New York City’s parks usually means hot dogs, pretzels, Italian ices and soda. But their days as the reigning grub in the Big Apple are numbered. City Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe has launched an aggressive campaign to improve the quality of food in the city’s green spaces. He plans to replace […]