The Fight Against Food Trucks

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  • Опубліковано 11 гру 2017
  • Food trucks are a vital part of many vibrant neighborhoods. For some entrepreneurs, they're a great first rung for entering the food industry.
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    Laura Pekarik is one of these entrepreneurs. She sells cupcakes from a food truck in Chicago. Laura says the food truck industry "gives individuals like me an entrance into a market opportunity for the small business owner that otherwise wouldn't have been there. I was able to rent a kitchen space instead of renting a whole brick and mortar and managing a team of people. Everything kind of was under my control to kind of get my feet wet in the business."
    But since starting her business, the increased regulations have made it too hard for her to take her truck in to the city. Often she is not even allowed to park. When she does find parking, she can only stay 2 hours. "Every moment that we're driving around and not parked in the location with our window open meant that we couldn't sell," she says.
    Baltimore Pizza Truck operator Joey Vanoni tells John Stossel about his similar experiences. He is not allowed to park his truck within 300 feet of any brick and mortar restaurant that sells pizza. Joey says that means "there's almost nowhere left for me to operate."
    Why do politicians limit where food trucks may park? Chicago Alderman Tom Tunney says he wants to protect existing restaurants. "It is such a small margin business and it employs so many people. That's what we need to protect." John Stossel says, he's a bottlenecker.
    Produced by Naomi Brockwell. Edited by Joshua Swain.

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  • @tavraney3289
    @tavraney3289 6 років тому +2181

    Kinda how cab company's trying to shut down uber. He who provides the best service should survive

    • @homewall744
      @homewall744 6 років тому +263

      And "best" is judged by consumers, not government officials.

    • @gregoryeverson741
      @gregoryeverson741 6 років тому +33

      uber also rips of the cab drivers, uber drivers dont make shit

    • @patrickminahan9746
      @patrickminahan9746 6 років тому +85

      Gregory Everson Uber drivers do it to make a quick buck, taxi drivers do it for a living. Thats why Uber took over

    • @jimbobaggans1564
      @jimbobaggans1564 6 років тому +45

      Patrick Minahan
      This happened in China too. The tuk tuk's were cutting into the cab companies profits. So the cab companies complained to local officials and stopped the tuk tuk's from operating. Corruption knows no boundaries.

    • @elcamino5145
      @elcamino5145 6 років тому +49

      27 years as a cab driver.. I am a real business, licensed, fingerprinting, photographs, state police background check, meter inspection, and real Taxi INS! Not state minimum INS... Uber is devalueing the entire industry and destroying livelihoods while paying their drivers pennies.

  • @mh_golfer
    @mh_golfer 6 років тому +1081

    Capitalism is about rewarding the guy who builds a better mousetrap, not running them over using government force. Restaurants should be forced to adopt or fail, just like every other business.

    • @RedfishInc
      @RedfishInc 6 років тому +3

      Lol, I don't think that Rahm Emanuel is a big promoter of capitalism.

    • @kauske
      @kauske 6 років тому +31

      Technically, this is a form of crony capitalism. Since bribes and lobbying are being used to promote unfair business practices. And a massive conflict of interest, since the mayor owns several restaurants. Counter-intuitively, when the free market is too free, you get these sort of problems. It becomes the wild west and people bribe, or undersell at a loss to bankrupt competition, then jack up the price later. It's all about getting just the right mix of regulation, and regulating how money can be spent to lobby the government. That's the big one, all the regulations in the world don't to shit if the guy with the most capital can just go alter them to stomp out competition.

    • @weihenghsu723
      @weihenghsu723 6 років тому +19

      Taxation is theft . U cannot use taxes as a reason to protect restaurants. 2 wrongs dont make a right. The gov perverts the free market at the expense of the consumer how sad

    • @kauske
      @kauske 6 років тому

      Zhong Zhang
      Get out of here you libertarian trash.

    • @somedude2492
      @somedude2492 5 років тому +14

      @James Wisrik they're not bad guys, they are guys that don't seem to have an idea to how to beat food trucks so they just shut them down. Capitalism is all about giving people the best for the cheapest. The one who achieves that will have the money. People are happy, good business practices are rewarded and the one who offers worse stuff for more money will go bankrupt. As simple as that.

  • @bluetextonwhitebg
    @bluetextonwhitebg 6 років тому +809

    a *LICENSE* to arrange flowers?!! jesus christ...

    • @wedgeantilles6134
      @wedgeantilles6134 4 роки тому +37

      Can you imagine if someone didnt use complimentary colors! The travesty! Think of the children!

    • @vulcandawg7623
      @vulcandawg7623 4 роки тому +21

      Amerika, land of the free... well... if you have a license to exercise that freedom that is.

    • @123telamon
      @123telamon 4 роки тому +3

      you could invade the smell space of others with your flowers

    • @CalebePriester
      @CalebePriester 4 роки тому +10

      Excuse me, kind sir. May I see your license for breathing, please? lol
      That's the future...

    • @markhouck5258
      @markhouck5258 4 роки тому +2

      Don't Raise Your Voice To Load, You Might Offend Someone and With All The New Laws In America That's Illegal... Laughing OUT-LOAD At Y'all... "America's Govern-Ment - BS"

  • @cmndrkool321
    @cmndrkool321 5 років тому +647

    I hate when people bring their kids into political drama to push their agenda. It makes me want to listen to them *less.*

    • @kyle1267
      @kyle1267 4 роки тому +116

      cmndrkool321 yeah i agree with the video but I really dont like how they use kids

    • @iloveferrets5859
      @iloveferrets5859 4 роки тому +33

      tittle twins look like snitches

    • @theephantommenace
      @theephantommenace 4 роки тому +18

      Marijuana: "What about the kids?"
      Guns: "What about the kids?"
      Fuck the kids! 😂

    • @jerryvelasco1474
      @jerryvelasco1474 3 роки тому +2

      @Jst A Guy
      Isn't Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, where the FBI send the people they want to give dick sandwiches to?
      🤔😰🤢.

    • @SovereignStatesman
      @SovereignStatesman 3 роки тому +7

      Yeah no shit, like poster-children who don't have a say OR a clue. Hiding behind children is the most manipulative thing imaginable.

  • @GeneralG1810
    @GeneralG1810 4 роки тому +106

    Mate if your restaurant can't compete with a food truck, maybe you should question the quality of your food

    • @MrDarthvis
      @MrDarthvis 3 роки тому +5

      A good example of how competition in the market helps consumers with cheaper prices or better quality elsewhere. It’s when your competitor brings in government to play favorites against you.

    • @ivonned32
      @ivonned32 3 роки тому +1

      Exactly

    • @wannawatchu66
      @wannawatchu66 2 роки тому +2

      @@MrDarthvis Or in Tom Tunney's case, is IN government and is stifling you with his authority.

    • @rustym.shackelford5546
      @rustym.shackelford5546 2 роки тому +2

      Or even question their business model - I currently work at a Korean BBQ Joint and they had a major malfunction w/ their main storage freezer - I had to take out an ENTIRE shelf full of spoiled meat and melted Ice Cream. Guess what one of the owners bought? A $20k truck... Priorities - apparently.

    • @pholdway5801
      @pholdway5801 12 днів тому

      Mate if you think working uphill against zero rent , zero rates competitors is fun then were never a minnow swimming up the Niagara Falls or even a whale trying the same miracle. These days property operations are only for the ultra capitalists who want to squeeze the mom and pop stores into bankruptcy . the same goes for minimum wage deals that strangle the stores to death. DEMOCRAT LED POLICIES KILL JOBS FOR EVERYONE but curiously already know the results of their folly and the slums they will cause . WAR ZONE STREETS are not an accident THEY ARE POLICY..I believe

  • @mrow7598
    @mrow7598 6 років тому +601

    I live in an area with lots of breweries. They love the food trucks they park out side the brewery and serve food that the brewery can't. Its a Win/Win.

    • @gregoryeverson741
      @gregoryeverson741 6 років тому +9

      my city has many bars downtown but nowhere to eat but at the bar and its always a burger or a frozen pizza

    • @jimbobaggans1564
      @jimbobaggans1564 6 років тому +42

      M Row
      A lot of times they park at a factory (yes there are a few left) and provide food for the workers at lunch time. They are great!

    • @OGSavage175
      @OGSavage175 5 років тому

      That's fine and that is actually what the law stated, "you must be 300ft away if you are serving the same items as the restaurant." That is exactly the outcome that could be possible for these food trucks, they just need to look at what isn't being sold at these restaurants and compete with them by selling their own unique items. I saw plenty of pizza places to choose from, so the guy should have picked a different food to sell.

    • @somedude2492
      @somedude2492 5 років тому +18

      @@OGSavage175 those are all places where you sit down and enjoy your meal. I've got a 45 minute break to have lunch, I don't wanna wait 20 mins for my food, 10 mins for the waitress to come to my table and let me pay, and eat in 15 min. Sometimes, I just want to get to a food truck, order, wait and pay in 10 mins, and eat my food in maybe 15min so i get 20 free minutes to do other stuff or just relax a little at the office before starting work again. In this type of situation, food trucks are objectively better for me.

    • @OGSavage175
      @OGSavage175 5 років тому

      @@somedude2492 then you just got to find the food truck that is selling your food. It shouldn't be that difficult, especially in a city. But not all places require you to sit down. The example that I've seen in the video was pizza places. Most pizza joints I went to you had the option to eat there or take it on the go. Most restaurants have that option as well.

  • @GretchentheAlligator
    @GretchentheAlligator 6 років тому +766

    Ahhhh government, always oppressing and beating down the little guy, I want the government out of mine and everyone else’s lives!

    • @danboban9119
      @danboban9119 6 років тому +3

      HAZE87x little guys own small restaraunts in building to.

    • @spuriouseffect
      @spuriouseffect 6 років тому +18

      Dan bo ban .... And they get squashed by chain businesses that procure large tax breaks. The same chains that don't mind hikes in the minimum wage that put the little guy out of business, eliminating competition. Government is used as a club.

    • @danboban9119
      @danboban9119 6 років тому +1

      Spurious Effect yea i wasnt talking about big business. You are trying to straw man this argument. Food trucks crush ma and pa restaraunts.

    • @spuriouseffect
      @spuriouseffect 6 років тому +18

      dan bo ban ..... You are making the Tesla argument. Car dealerships in Texas used the government to stop Tesla from selling cars direct to customers. How are you unable to see the corruption in that? These food trucks are ma and pa restaurants, that's the point. They are being crushed by businesses colluding with government. The city official admitted that he owned 2 restaurants that he was trying to protect.

    • @danboban9119
      @danboban9119 6 років тому

      we are talking about more established business buildings that pay alot for that space (alot more then food trucks) your argument about the guy trying to protect his restaurant buildings can also be said that the food trucks are trying to do the same thing but of course they pay alot less for their business operational cost but they want to have their food trucks out side and around those same buildings? How is that fair? Consumer goods/service's and consumer products are in diffrent categories in my oppinion if you want to talk about cars but lets just say if there is a game shop building and then i come and start selling games in the parking lot out of my truck. If you think thats fair then im sorry we have very different oppinons and we wont be able to see eye to eye.

  • @ssm59
    @ssm59 6 років тому +130

    What makes this specially tragic is the fact that the food trucks in the brick-and-mortar restaurants are not in the same business. People who use food trucks are not looking for a sitdown meal. They’re looking to grab something quick and get on with their day, a need that the brick-and-mortar restaurants do not serve. The same token people who want the sitdown dining experience are not going to walk out onto the street to a food truck.

    • @xallthatremains8339
      @xallthatremains8339 5 років тому +20

      Such a simple concept and yet these asshats can't figure it out

    • @nikkij3254
      @nikkij3254 4 роки тому +1

      Bingo!

    • @Walker-ow7vj
      @Walker-ow7vj 4 роки тому

      X allthatremains they can it’s just they don’t care

    • @nadominhoca
      @nadominhoca 3 роки тому +1

      Even if they do.... it doesn't matter!

    • @wannawatchu66
      @wannawatchu66 2 роки тому

      Agreed...apples and oranges.

  • @davedaddy101
    @davedaddy101 6 років тому +157

    Let the market decide if brick and mortar is more important than a truck.

    • @davedaddy101
      @davedaddy101 6 років тому +31

      meaturama you just made yourself look like an idiot. People are the market. Same thing. Saying “let the market decide” is a commonly used phrase.

    • @davedaddy101
      @davedaddy101 6 років тому +24

      meaturama lol you should have stayed in school.

    • @123telamon
      @123telamon 4 роки тому +1

      @meaturama HAHAH meaturama its just a commonly used phrase

    • @marvalice3455
      @marvalice3455 3 роки тому

      Yes

    • @marvalice3455
      @marvalice3455 3 роки тому

      @meaturama what.

  • @Intelligenkeit
    @Intelligenkeit 6 років тому +290

    my question is... why are existing resturants more important than existing food trucks? Whoever sells the better food wins the customer, i dont understand, isnt that the way capitalism should work?

    • @vanillacokejunky
      @vanillacokejunky 5 років тому +43

      @DavM aka "crony capitalism" or corruption

    • @kofola9145
      @kofola9145 4 роки тому +4

      My question is: what makes a restaurant feel threatened by a fast-food truck? The level of service? Quality of products?

    • @danyleon4870
      @danyleon4870 4 роки тому +5

      Theoretically restaurant held more jobs and pays more. If you want a better competition restauraneer should provide more diversity on their menu, or in house music, or access of wifi to their customer. They have the advantage of space. But nowdays everything is about politics. Sigh.

    • @geoeconomics3067
      @geoeconomics3067 4 роки тому +2

      Capitalists are biggest enemies of capitalism
      -
      Karl Marx

    • @123telamon
      @123telamon 4 роки тому +3

      intelligentkeit, you didnt realise this isnt a capitalist country, its a monarchy, the noble can have it all, the people cant do shit

  • @nathanadams6648
    @nathanadams6648 6 років тому +230

    Go get em food truck operators.
    Im rooting for you!

  • @lapamful
    @lapamful 6 років тому +594

    This is idiotic. Sometimes I'm in the mood for a slice of pizza and I don't want the hassle or time of sitting in a restaurant. Sometimes I want to sit and eat as it's too cold outside or I have more time.
    When the gov restricts competition the consumer loses out. This is how liberal policies create what we see in Detroit, one little regulation at a time and you end up with Venezuela.

    • @nnnnnn5135
      @nnnnnn5135 6 років тому +33

      True. Those left wing nuts will destroy the free market, which is a lose lose situation for everyone.

    • @bryanbrett6037
      @bryanbrett6037 6 років тому +2

      Yup!

    • @Benjamin72297
      @Benjamin72297 5 років тому +5

      Goddamnit at least look up the definition of liberal before you use the term. That means more freedom

    • @tryomama
      @tryomama 4 роки тому +1

      How is this even a liberal thing?

    • @tryomama
      @tryomama 4 роки тому

      @Jim McCracken more like idiots hijack your own country and not leftist. Why is every problem a leftist problem? Like do you think I hate food trucks and wanted to kill off competitions just because I side left? Wtf?

  • @HUNTR187
    @HUNTR187 6 років тому +148

    Wait, you can’t arrange a flower without a license? What the heck does the license say? What about putting flowers together requires training or certifications?! I love these bottle neck videos but they hurt my soul sometimes.

    • @thunberbolttwo3953
      @thunberbolttwo3953 6 років тому +6

      Meaturama your first post was a insult.Op replied in kind.You deserved it.

    • @thunberbolttwo3953
      @thunberbolttwo3953 6 років тому +7

      Meaturama thank you fpr proving that you are a moron.Allso never tell what wjhat to do snowflake.I will what the hell that i want to do.

    • @thunberbolttwo3953
      @thunberbolttwo3953 6 років тому +6

      Meaturama i love how i trigered you snowflake.

    • @thunberbolttwo3953
      @thunberbolttwo3953 6 років тому +4

      Meaturama ah the trigered snowfl;ake is still talking to me.How cute.

    • @thunberbolttwo3953
      @thunberbolttwo3953 6 років тому +5

      Meaturama when you look up the deinition for stupid.You see your picture.

  • @briarwentling5435
    @briarwentling5435 3 роки тому +4

    I love his style of argueing both sides of the issue to get everyone's points across before coming to a conclusion

  • @SGT11B
    @SGT11B 4 роки тому

    John Stossel are you the only quality investigative journalist left? Keep going brother. We need you now more than ever.

  • @veg4life.
    @veg4life. 4 роки тому +4

    those two kids are so adorable & so smart , bless their parents , these kids have a bright future ahead of them

  • @davelowe1977
    @davelowe1977 6 років тому +111

    I never thought I'd say this, but you guys seem to need a permit or a licence to do anything. Incredible that it seems more complicated than the UK.

    • @davel8116
      @davel8116 6 років тому +38

      Right. By the way, is your TV license paid up? Are all of the doorknobs in your home accounted for?

    • @imulippo5245
      @imulippo5245 6 років тому +10

      Is America really a 'land of the free' these days?

    • @mrow7598
      @mrow7598 6 років тому +6

      no

    • @merendell
      @merendell 6 років тому +20

      It really depends on where you live but the general rule of thumb is this. The higher the population density and the longer its been that way the more liberal the area tends to be, the more liberal the area the more roadblocks are put in place to keep people from makeing an honest living.

    • @davelowe1977
      @davelowe1977 6 років тому +4

      Dave L
      I don't own a television.

  • @zang9147
    @zang9147 6 років тому +19

    Tom Tunney is right. We need to focus on these food trucks, now that violent crime is not a problem in Chicago.

    • @rubenclark8017
      @rubenclark8017 4 роки тому +2

      That's great😲👍🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

    • @pholdway5801
      @pholdway5801 12 днів тому

      Was it ever ? ( Irony involved ).

  • @wolfu597
    @wolfu597 4 роки тому +1

    To me, John Stossel is the what I always imagined and thought how reporters were supposed to be. He's a true rarity.
    To all you youngsters who wants to become reporters/journalists in the future: Here is your role model, the way he does his job, the way he ask normal people on the street questions the MSM considers to be hate speech.
    We need MORE reporters like John, NOT less.

  • @nobodygrinder5667
    @nobodygrinder5667 4 роки тому +3

    Political means too, with Trucking. I heard politicians want to ban the older trucks, make them obsolete. Some politicians been in office longer than my truck has been on the roads

  • @qeoo6578
    @qeoo6578 5 років тому +7

    "Lol who r these kids" 😂🤣😂🤣

  • @killax7
    @killax7 6 років тому +5

    The two year round restaurants in my tourist attraction of a town in canada threatened to close their doors if the municipality didn't enforce some sort of fee for food trucks that take their business in the busy tourist summer and have no expense over the winter. The locals were all for it when it meant they weren't going to have any year round restaurant

  • @MrBeen992
    @MrBeen992 6 років тому

    John Stossel looks so honest...his voice so honest...that I have to cry

  • @Shamus71
    @Shamus71 5 років тому +2

    I love food truck festivals.. I go to them when I can.

  • @ben41281
    @ben41281 6 років тому +3

    The thing is without food trucks, some of us would be miserable. I'm a trucker by trade, and the company I work for has terminals all over, some of which don't have any sort of food on site. At those food trucks come to them, at different times of the day, without them we'd have no choice but to order delivery food that often costs way more, and isn't as good.

  • @bluecollarnobody4217
    @bluecollarnobody4217 6 років тому +16

    Another fine example of our great democracy of a government screwing things up for capitalists in the Free Will of the people

  • @john172867
    @john172867 2 роки тому +1

    I love how Stossel plays Devil's Advocate.

  • @chaoticB81
    @chaoticB81 4 роки тому +2

    Nobody makes me hate our government more than Stossel.

  • @jameswiedmaier3930
    @jameswiedmaier3930 6 років тому +41

    What I find ironic is people saying you shouldn't. use children. politically but democrats. use children. to get people to pass the Affordable Care Act.

    • @tiamoore2861
      @tiamoore2861 6 років тому +5

      James Wiedmaier they are closet socialists.
      Bet they throw a fit Everytime they see a kid in a commercial too.

    • @RedfishInc
      @RedfishInc 6 років тому +8

      The feminist have little girls dropping f bombs in their latest political ads. Everything is on the table in the furtherance of their leftist agenda.

    • @Nine-Signs
      @Nine-Signs 6 років тому

      Yes but dems don't wheel out a set of twins with instructions to lie to the camera about subjects they are too young to comprehend. They simply say "perhaps we should make sure kids have healthcare so they don't die" Hardly what you are describing now is it.
      If your politicians take money from lobbyists to do things for those people the lobbyists work for, that is not the fault of government, that is the fault of the economic system that incentivizes people to behave in that way by exploiting the human characteristic of greed and in that effect corrupts government. Welcome to capitalism. The cause of the symptom known as money in politics and bending governments into compliance with the wishes of the wealthy for 450 years. 200 years longer than your republic has been a thing.
      armyofall.wordpress.com/politicsmoney/

    • @tiamoore2861
      @tiamoore2861 6 років тому +3

      ArmyOfAll lol
      Right....
      www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/09/02/critics-decry-obamas-indoctrination-plan-students.html

    • @tiamoore2861
      @tiamoore2861 6 років тому +2

      ArmyOfAll you just described socialism not capitalism.
      Socialists lobby to get government programs that benefit certain parties, public cost and private benefits. You know like insurance companies or abortion clinics, that isn't capitalism. You are confused.

  • @mirzaahmed6589
    @mirzaahmed6589 6 років тому +6

    No one forced the brick and mortar restaurant owners to go brick and mortar. They could easily have gotten food trucks themselves.

    • @danyleon4870
      @danyleon4870 4 роки тому

      Well they'll require capital to do that. Some brick and mortar are not that solvent for credit.

  • @logicmonkey1034
    @logicmonkey1034 6 років тому +1

    John Stossels videos are becoming a hell of a lot meatier with info. This is absolutely great! Keep up the fantastic work john!

  • @robertbeckom1962
    @robertbeckom1962 5 років тому

    Those kids are precious, and so wise!

  • @tiamoore2861
    @tiamoore2861 6 років тому +3

    I love the Tuttle twins! Adorable, I have their books for my kids too.

  • @ethansensbach5500
    @ethansensbach5500 6 років тому +12

    Free the food trucks!

  • @FurtherAM
    @FurtherAM 2 роки тому +1

    John Stossel you are the man!

  • @gg-ni9xe
    @gg-ni9xe 2 роки тому +2

    Another example of regulations crushing small businesses...

  • @masteringthehumanexperienc1370
    @masteringthehumanexperienc1370 6 років тому +3

    A "brick & mortar" restaurant owner who thinks that food truck is a direct competition deserves to go bankrupt because he doesn't understand the fundamental mission of a restaurant business - to provide a dining experience, not to fill your belly. Food trucks address customers who want good food (keyword: good) at a reasonable price but cannot take the time to be seated, order, wait for the food to be prepared, wait for the bill etc... Two completely different market segments. A smart pizzeria owner would place a food truck in the immediate parking lot and get revenues both ways.
    The real competition for brick & mortar restaurants does not come from food trucks, but from grocery stores with sit-down deli & ready meals departments.

  • @buffteethr
    @buffteethr 5 років тому +7

    I like eating in restaurants but sometimes I love getting stuff from Food trucks. Isn't America suppose to be the beacon for free market capitalism?

  • @monadamus42
    @monadamus42 3 роки тому +1

    They should drive their trucks into the restaurants yelling "Ha! You fools, you're stuck here like sitting ducks while I'm mobile af! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HA!" Then maybe they would travel across the country selling food on the run. Get a little bandit theme going? That'd be dope. I'd watch the movie

  • @L0CKTiTE
    @L0CKTiTE 4 роки тому +2

    John, your so factually funny when you do these videos. Love them.

  • @sumting-wong6176
    @sumting-wong6176 4 роки тому +10

    "I operate a restaurant..."
    conflict of interest much?

  • @khunopie9159
    @khunopie9159 6 років тому +6

    Cupcakes. Yes, sweet cakes for all

  • @garymcaleer6112
    @garymcaleer6112 6 років тому +1

    John has always been the go-to guy for objective analysis. I've learned some important lessons from the man through the years. All the best in the coming year, John. May GOD always watch over you and those you love.

  • @__aceofspades
    @__aceofspades 4 роки тому +1

    One thing that's not addressed about food trucks is parking is an issue for the city/residents. A restaurant doesnt sit on the public street, and some of them build parking lots on their land. Food trucks take up public parking for long periods of time, everyday. Make food trucks pay to rent street space and then it's fair game.

  • @kennethbowers2897
    @kennethbowers2897 4 роки тому +3

    The government wants to keep you down through the use of regulations and laws just because.

  • @knndyskful
    @knndyskful 6 років тому +8

    How long before Stossel gets banned?

    • @vanillacokejunky
      @vanillacokejunky 5 років тому +2

      was he already "banned" from regular TV? I remember I used to watch "Give Me A Break". what happened to that show.... at least i can still watch his content on youtube.

  • @dongypooh
    @dongypooh 5 років тому +2

    A group always protects itself and its own interest.

  • @grawss
    @grawss 5 років тому

    This John Stossel guy is real journalism.

  • @maxradke2189
    @maxradke2189 6 років тому +6

    How is lobbying even legal?

    • @notosure2148
      @notosure2148 5 років тому

      Republicans and Democrats

    • @vanillacokejunky
      @vanillacokejunky 5 років тому

      excellent question, i don't think you'll get a quality answer on youtube though.

  • @elysium76
    @elysium76 6 років тому +6

    Whatever happened to healthy competition

  • @ToastAndSashimi
    @ToastAndSashimi 6 років тому

    Libertarian thought in solid form. Thank you Mr. Stossel. Heinlein would be proud

  • @8BitSuperhero
    @8BitSuperhero 6 років тому

    Thank you John Stossel

  • @johnnya9001
    @johnnya9001 6 років тому +11

    Love Stossel. Hate using kids like this.

    • @tiamoore2861
      @tiamoore2861 6 років тому +4

      JohnnyA stossel isn't using the kids. Their dad is an author and they are the main characters in his books.

    • @mitchell8940
      @mitchell8940 6 років тому +1

      Well then there dad's fucked up

    • @tiamoore2861
      @tiamoore2861 6 років тому +5

      Mitch Hop cus teaching your children about economics through a story is morally wrong, idiot.

    • @vanillacokejunky
      @vanillacokejunky 5 років тому +1

      he is just doing reporting on the kids, who are already involved with the topic. you might not agree with the delivery, but the message they speak is actually sound, which is probably why he felt compelled to include it.

  • @jeffwalls2871
    @jeffwalls2871 6 років тому +23

    Thats why I voted for Trump...deregulation

    • @notosure2148
      @notosure2148 5 років тому +2

      Yup, sadly he's a moron and deregulates things that serve to protect our waterways and air- instead of stupid shit like occupational licensing and lobbied monopolies.

    • @ahope4u2
      @ahope4u2 5 років тому +1

      Noto Sure .....takes one to recognize one.......understand?

  • @TheElectricCherry
    @TheElectricCherry 5 років тому

    Competition is what makes products Better and the better one comes out on top.

  • @outdoorfreedom9778
    @outdoorfreedom9778 3 роки тому

    Another old post but a quick story. A friend owned a small restaurant in town. For a couple months he kept talking to me about getting a lunch truck so he could capitalize on his food.
    Finally another fellow in town bought a lunch truck that made the same type of food. That really upset him that someone beat him to it.
    He tried hiring a lawyer to keep the fellow from parking in a county visitors parking lot. The county wouldn't get involved and other type of food carts started parking there too. Then another food truck selling the same type of food showed up.
    The people made their choices and the two trucks are still there. He sold his place and now we have two restaurants and two carts.
    Surprise, the health inspector checks the trucks more often than the restaurants.

  • @jranekse1167
    @jranekse1167 6 років тому +61

    I cant stand when children are used to promote a political statement. They do as told. Its not their opinion. Its immoral.

    • @tiamoore2861
      @tiamoore2861 6 років тому +13

      Jøran Ekse how are these children being hurt by their father writing children's books on economics? They are the main characters in the stories. How can it be immoral to teach children a work ethic and business sense.
      These kids are not being harmed, your criticism is misplaced.
      Do you complain Everytime you see a kid in a commercial or helping out in the family business?
      Their dad isn't running for office. Stossel isn't taking advantage of them when he promotes their books. Sounds like you are a closet socialist.

    • @uncleruckus5121
      @uncleruckus5121 6 років тому

      its called
      political pedofilia

    • @tiamoore2861
      @tiamoore2861 6 років тому +5

      Uncle Ruckus except no one is running for office so what you say still doesn't make sense.

    • @jebbush8491
      @jebbush8491 6 років тому +7

      Yeah I agree, I don't like children being used as props for politics they don't understand.

    • @tiamoore2861
      @tiamoore2861 6 років тому +10

      Jeb Bush then you should not be sending your kids to public school

  • @algernonflowers2889
    @algernonflowers2889 4 роки тому +3

    Well Food, Inc kinda exposed the strength of how they control our groceries, I guess they are expanding into other sectors.

  • @lolmock25
    @lolmock25 4 роки тому +1

    A guy in my area started as a truck and now ownes a brick and motor resturant with a full bar

  • @zombiedude347
    @zombiedude347 6 років тому

    There's very few places in my hometown that foodtrucks are aloud. They're pretty much stuck parking behind these roadblocks to starts of unbuilt roads. And they still can't do it in residential districts. Only ice cream trucks are given the authority to go to residential districts, and they can park anywhere.

  • @Rambleon444
    @Rambleon444 6 років тому +3

    This is a tough one. On one hand I am all for a free market. On the other hand people have invest their whole life savings to open an expensive restaurant, and than someone with a relatively cheap truck just pulls right up next to restaurant and takes away customers.

    • @gregoryeverson741
      @gregoryeverson741 6 років тому +4

      they arent taking away any customers, its called free will

    • @Amateur_Pianist_472
      @Amateur_Pianist_472 6 років тому +2

      Then maybe they should've had a food truck rather than risk all their life savings.

    • @circusboy90210
      @circusboy90210 6 років тому +2

      Sell better food, a brick and motor have space a truck can't do things in and can never match the volume

    • @Bob-yk9cz
      @Bob-yk9cz 5 років тому

      Agreed. Restaurants deserve at least some protection.

    • @mrrandyleighton
      @mrrandyleighton 5 років тому +2

      If a "cheap truck" serving food takes your business away, you're not providing that good of a service. An expensive restaurant should have nothing to fear from a cheap food truck. The people buying from the truck were not going to eat at the expensive restaurant...if there were, they wouldn't be eating from the truck.

  • @mikegrant8031
    @mikegrant8031 6 років тому +8

    It is not the restaurant they are protecting but the landlords rent base. Wich determines property value and the tax base, food trucks add nothing to the tax base.

    • @gregoryeverson741
      @gregoryeverson741 6 років тому +4

      i think food trucks pay a vendor fee

    • @GarySmythe
      @GarySmythe 6 років тому +2

      Food trucks have to pay registration fees every year, gas tax, business license, income tax, and probably more!

    • @dm8867
      @dm8867 6 років тому

      But the government wants HIGHER property tax
      Here is a business idea buy a parking lot and open it up for food trucks and out side seating

    • @circusboy90210
      @circusboy90210 6 років тому

      Yes they do add to the tax base. Tom gillerman has a conflict of interest

  • @seanriley1603
    @seanriley1603 5 років тому +1

    Hotels try to shut down vacation rentals like AirBnB and VRBO. Most hotels don’t accept dogs, yet most vacation rentals do.

  • @johnglue1744
    @johnglue1744 6 років тому

    Here in Atlanta from what I have seen there are usually set locations where food trucks congregate mostly . I mean they do go about near the city parks and such at times but usually they are in the same places like big parking lots of torn down buildings or repurposed just for the food trucks.

  • @burgerking8280
    @burgerking8280 6 років тому +12

    Rip food trucks

  • @danbuster9571
    @danbuster9571 6 років тому +4

    300 feet is fair, if you are selling the same product

    • @spyderfreestone736
      @spyderfreestone736 6 років тому +1

      yet another restaurant can open in three hundred feet of the other one. This is a clear abuse of power by the politician(also a restaurant owner).

    • @RedfishInc
      @RedfishInc 6 років тому +4

      What's wrong with competition? Competition is what built this country and drives companies to do better. Make a superior product and sell it at a reasonable price and it shouldn't matter if your competitors are 300 feet or 30 feet away.

    • @r6guy
      @r6guy 6 років тому

      +Josh Freestone not sure about that, most shopping centers don't allow more than one restaurant selling similar products.

    • @medicfriends8163
      @medicfriends8163 5 років тому

      what jw mccabe said about the coffee shop is an absolute bull. if multiple coffee trucks end up selling the same shit right next to your store, you won't be able to make rent, guaranteed. probably doesn't even own the coffee shop, that's a load of horseshit

  • @MrBeen992
    @MrBeen992 6 років тому

    This program is not biased at all. John Stossel can fight wrestlers with one arm.

  • @Loveroffood41
    @Loveroffood41 5 років тому

    I live in Provo Utah and during the summer time every Thursday there is a food truck roundup where you can get as many as 10 food trucks in one area and it's absolutely amazing how busy some of these places get.

  • @davel8116
    @davel8116 6 років тому +5

    I don't know which is worse, roach coaches, or rat infested restaurants.

    • @gregoryeverson741
      @gregoryeverson741 6 років тому +3

      well most food trucks can be taken apart and cleaned

    • @RedfishInc
      @RedfishInc 6 років тому

      Well they both have to meet health department standards in order to operate.

    • @GeorgeVCohea-dw7ou
      @GeorgeVCohea-dw7ou 6 років тому

      But one can drive around and avoid inspection. Is that fair or helpful?

    • @mrrandyleighton
      @mrrandyleighton 5 років тому

      I did not see any indication that any of those trucks were unsanitary.

  • @ventureelect
    @ventureelect 5 років тому +1

    Darn those two kids stole my heart.

  • @alcd6333
    @alcd6333 6 років тому

    The twins are adorable - and smart! Take their video and show it before Congress and different city councils. They have a lot more sense - and brains - than most adults.

  • @user-kp6eh2wp3o
    @user-kp6eh2wp3o 3 роки тому

    My mother had a lunch truck, that had been established for almost 10 years in Philadelphia.
    However, unlike the one entrepreneur that said his lunch truck business took off in 2008, my mothers business did exactly the opposite, falling apart in 2008.

  • @TheRisky9
    @TheRisky9 5 років тому +1

    Food trucks are amazing. I worked in a warehouse that didn't have a cafeteria, so they gave permission for a food truck to come every day. That food truck probably made good money and it provided an essential service for the workers there. When I was running late in the morning, no time for food, that food truck was there.

  • @williambilyeu9801
    @williambilyeu9801 Рік тому +1

    The Tuttle Twins seem smarter than most politicians.

  • @stevekbowman
    @stevekbowman 6 років тому

    Thanks John, great topic,

  • @Captainbadger123
    @Captainbadger123 4 роки тому

    I love food trucks. Nothing’s better than having food available for purchase wherever you go

  • @jack-a-lopejoe106
    @jack-a-lopejoe106 4 роки тому +1

    I sell ice cream from my trike. I went to an event and an ice cream truck came. Later, another guy selling ice cream from a wheeled chest. The gut with the chest saw me and he left. The event ended and I left and went to a different park with other people. No one for shot. No cops got called. Ice cream was sold and we went where we wanted.

  • @FurtherAM
    @FurtherAM 2 роки тому

    3:16 hahahaha "Man, the government can be so shady."

  • @ericusmaximus2380
    @ericusmaximus2380 6 років тому

    Lots and lots of good arguments from both sides and the customers to

  • @jordtilley
    @jordtilley 6 років тому

    Always great reporting sir

  • @jroth87
    @jroth87 5 років тому

    I own a mobile food cart and live in Arizona. Last year a bill was approved to loosen city and state regulations on mobile food operating laws. Things like allowing them to vend anywhere with right of way parking. City response to this state change however has been to limit right of way parking in areas and harassing mobile food business owners who are operating within their legal right. Some cities don’t allow you to operate in a park or any “adjacent parking space” to a public park which tends to be a matter of subjectiveness over zoning.

  • @PrinceMeat
    @PrinceMeat 3 роки тому

    Ok ngl john stossel has to be one of the best News investigator ever. He asked quesations rather or not he agress with it or not

  • @josemmontes5810
    @josemmontes5810 6 років тому

    in my area groups of food tucks get together and rent parking lots or empty lots to operate from, it works well for everyone...

  • @thisguydiablo
    @thisguydiablo 5 років тому +1

    Good reporting

  • @arribaficationwineho32
    @arribaficationwineho32 Рік тому +1

    Restaurants HATE food trucks but customers should have the choice

  • @billrandell4641
    @billrandell4641 4 роки тому

    The nice thing about Food Trucks is that the Owner usually is right there cooking..so you get TOP QUALITY FOOD!!!..🇺🇸

  • @tedpert1360
    @tedpert1360 5 років тому

    Thanks

  • @CartoonLab
    @CartoonLab 5 років тому

    While having a brick and mortar restaurant can be convenient because its location is always one spot, I'd like to also have the mobile option, especially if my car won't start, and it's too far to walk to the B&M place. It means they can park closer to where I am, and so I can just walk over. Plus, they offer just as good service and food as any other place, so who cares if they're there? They don't always stay in the same spot, so they can keep all stationary places on their toes, keep them improving, so they become better, and have the food truck go somewhere else for business. That's the power of choice; if you want people to choose you more often, then you need to be better than any competition, building or truck.

  • @johnpelham9310
    @johnpelham9310 6 років тому

    Roach Coach. I like them. Very convenient at , or near work.

  • @jimterry8017
    @jimterry8017 5 років тому

    I used to be very much a liberal. Coming from a Union state. But once I read John Stossel's give me a break it really got me thinking. I hope he keeps up the good work

  • @bradbassett1240
    @bradbassett1240 5 років тому

    I get it!... Local brick and mortar restaurants have to jump through hoops as far as permitting, market research, etc...To have a food truck park outside your burger shop would suck!..

  • @lorenzomedina6220
    @lorenzomedina6220 3 роки тому

    Food Truck Convoy like the 70's Trucker Movie!

  • @arthurdduda63
    @arthurdduda63 3 роки тому

    I can understand the part about not parking near existing restaurants. There are plenty of areas, parks, industrial areas Warehouse areas ,

  • @johnpagdilao6075
    @johnpagdilao6075 6 років тому

    As a former resident of Cook County. (The county that the city of Chicago is in.) I am so glad to have left, the sales tax alone is staggering, forget buying anything tobacco related there, and the recent repeal of the sugary drink tax is something, but it's too little too late.

  • @David-km2ie
    @David-km2ie 4 роки тому

    Amazing video. Keep up the hard work!

  • @robertljohnson8965
    @robertljohnson8965 6 років тому

    I love these people...

  • @Kaiyats
    @Kaiyats 3 роки тому

    Every restaurant: I CANT LET THEM HAVE SO MUCH AS A SINGLE CUSTOMER (cries) I JUST CANT AFFORD IT!!!

  • @guitarofdestiny
    @guitarofdestiny 6 років тому

    3:18 That little Fred Perry shirt Haha

  • @luismendoza7739
    @luismendoza7739 3 роки тому +1

    CONFLICT OF INTEREST, you're fired

  • @ft9kop
    @ft9kop 6 років тому

    So this is why I couldn't find any food trucks in Baltimore when I went this summer. I was in the mood to see their street offerings and was quite disappointed. NYC on the other hand has awesome street food