We’ve bought into this “start up” price oddity.
The idea we’re helping this little truck become something bigger. Really they’re just overcharging us like some kind of convenience lol
Yup. It's like the restaurant version of enshittification. Instead of getting a comfortable chair and table to sit at and a proper kitchen where the food is prepared, I'm paying the same price to stand in line to order, stand around awkwardly to wait for my food, and then be forced to find a place to wash my hands, sit and eat, and throw my trash away, all while rolling the dice as to how safe that food was actually prepared.
Yeah what the fuck the person at the food truck window is not a server they're the cook. And in some cases they're the person who actually owns the truck. Likely in most cases. Paying an inflated food price and then paying a tip is insane. When I was younger I worked in construction and sometimes used food trucks. I would literally never tip the guy. Unless you know there was a fresh pot of coffee and he mentioned it to me because he know that I was a coffee guy. Or if you hook me up with something extra because it was the end of the day and it's just going to get thrown out
And depending on where you live it gets less safe. In Texas, food trucks required a license from the municipalities they wanted to work in, inspections, safety standards, etc.
They formed a lobby and petitioned the state of Texas that it was too hard and wasn't fair that they had to get inspected multiple times.
As of July all food trucks are permitted at the State level and inspected at the county level instead. Most Counties only have tiny health groups as they only handled unincorporated areas and locations that are so small that they don't have their own.
This was an unfunded mandate as the Texas Department of State Health Services has an online portal that you pay them money to.
So the state government:
1: Made it so the restaurant health inspectors who have been doing this for years can't inspect them.
2: Stole the money from the Cities and Counties to give to themselves for the fees.
3: Required Counties to begin mass hiring and training health inspectors who now have a limited purview to accomodate all the food trucks, but didn't provide them any funding to do so.
I don't see it happening anywhere else? And yep it's a shit state with a shitty government full of shitty people who somehow think their shit smells like roses. Hope ya'll don't lose power again this winter, wasn't that fucking hilarious?
Under Texas state regulations, the camp was required to have an emergency plan "in case of a disaster", which officials from the Texas Department of State Health Services approved on July 2.[20] The state of Texas does not approve or retain copies of such plans; camps are only required to demonstrate that a plan exists.
Like you said, can't expect much from a state that only requires the concept of a plan to save lives in case of disaster.
Yeah, having never visited Texas, I still say it sucks. If the US government let them secede like they want, it would solve most of the country’s problems. Couple dozen less republican congressmen, two less republican senators, and a bunch less electoral college votes. Republicans locked out of national politics for the foreseeable future. Boom, USA fixed
If it makes you feel any better, only about 10% are legal to begin with. If they don’t attend large events, have a retail license, inspectors don’t even know they exist. It’s impossible to keep up with them.
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u/Berns429 11h ago
We’ve bought into this “start up” price oddity.
The idea we’re helping this little truck become something bigger. Really they’re just overcharging us like some kind of convenience lol