CIty restaurant owners and the District’s food truck vendors remained deadlocked on how to resolve the dispute over where the trucks can operate, despite an offer Wednesday by the vendors to be taxed at the same rate as brick-and-mortar businesses. “The real issue is location, location, location,” Andrew Kline, the attorney for the Restaurant Association Metropolitan Washington, told The Washington Examiner. “Ideally what happens is the city specifies locations where [the trucks] can operate.”

Until a Wednesday morning council hearing, the two sides had been warring over a bill that would apply the city’s 10 percent restaurant tax to the trucks. The restaurants say the trucks undercut their business with cheaper, untaxed food. The vendors had argued their clientele are unreliable – a cold day can kill business – and they need the cheap food advantage. The city currently requires the trucks to pay a $1,500 annual fee to sling their delicacies from the curbside in lieu of the tax.