Food trucks are here to stay

Familiar restaurant names are starting to show up in the parade of brightly painted food trucks jostling for customers. Restaurant chains such as Sizzler and Subway are joining the parade of roving gourmet kitchens that started with Kogi two years ago. Read more in Thursday's story by Sharon Bernstein: "Food trucks are rolling into the mainstream."

Photo: Border Grill co-owner Mary Sue Milliken walks outside one of the company’s two roaming trucks on Sept. 9, 2010. The food-truck trend is “here to stay,” she says. Credit: Gary Friedman / Los Angeles Times

 

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[Gigabiting]

Food trucks were the darlings of the food world in 2009.
It’s cheap and casual with no dress code or reservations required. It is also hurried and messy. Instead of a maitre d’ to seat you, you have to cop a squat on a bench or curb. There are squirt bottle condiments, flimsy plastic cutlery, and the ambiance of the streets, with its attendant bus fumes, car alarms, and weather.
Maybe it's a little too 'street' for many of us.
How about street food minus the street? Read:
http://gigabiting.com/?p=2689/