Tag archive for ‘Politics’
By Mobile Cuisine On Monday, January 14th, 2013
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Restaurant Owner Politician Keeps Food Trucks Out of Sunrise

SUNRISE, FL - It was much ado about food trucks last week in Sunrise, with owners of the rolling restaurants urging commissioners to nix an all-out ban. Arlon Kennedy, a Sunrise resident who got into the business More...

By Mobile Cuisine On Thursday, January 3rd, 2013
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DC Food Trucks to be Big Part of Presidential Inauguration

WASHINGTON DC - President Barack Obama’s historic first inauguration drew upward of 1.8 million people, no doubt an inaugural record, overwhelming the District and its infrastructure. But there were plenty of More...

By Mobile Cuisine On Thursday, November 8th, 2012
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Proposed DC Regulations Would Severely Restrict Food Trucks

The language in question from the District’s proposed vending regulations sounds innocuous enough: Food trucks may not vend from a parking spot adjacent to an “unobstructed sidewalk” that’s “less More...

By Mobile Cuisine On Thursday, October 25th, 2012
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2012 Mobile Cuisine Presidential Poll

The 2012 US Presidential election is right around the corner. The candidates have been touring the country and debating each other on the stump as well as in formal debates. We feel that most people in the country More...

By Richard Myrick On Monday, October 8th, 2012
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Candidate Pledges to End Restrictive Laws on Food Trucks in SoCal

Lake Elsinore, CA - On the eve of the Pechanga Food Truck Festival, Riverside County Supervisor Candidate Kevin Jeffries pledged to end the most restrictive laws on food trucks in Southern California, a ban that More...

By Mobile Cuisine On Tuesday, October 2nd, 2012
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DC Food Trucks Begin Paying Sales Tax

WASHINGTON DC - If it seems like that meal from your favorite food truck got a little more expensive yesterday, it’s because it has—a new 10 percent sales tax on the mobile restaurants went into effect on More...

By Mobile Cuisine On Tuesday, September 25th, 2012
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Amherst Police Kick Out Food Trucks, One at a Time

AMHERST, NY - What was supposed to be the big story in Amherst on Monday wasn’t, and what wasn’t expected to be a story at all was. Town officials who thought they would be in the middle of a debate More...

By Mobile Cuisine On Wednesday, September 12th, 2012
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D.C. Food Truck Association to Expand

WASHINGTON DC - Not even three years into its existence, the DC Food Trucks Association has decided to change its name and expand its reach. Last month, the District-based organization voted to accept members More...

By Mobile Cuisine On Friday, August 10th, 2012
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Political Attack Ad Bus Blocks DC Food Truck from Doing Business

Tasty Kabob serves fresh halal food to customers in their new location. (Geoffrey Malloy). Washington DC - Tasty Kabob, a small food-truck business based in Washington, D.C., was forced to relocate from its usual More...

By Mobile Cuisine On Tuesday, March 20th, 2012
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The Food (Truck) Fight Heats Up

Sup. Scott Wiener and public-school parent and advocate Dana Woldow are flinging dueling opinion pieces back and forth over the food-truck issue – and it’s getting hot. Here’s the background: More...

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