Chicago’s regulations of food trucks have achieved their desired effect: protecting restaurants by crushing food trucks.
The Schnitzel King reports on Facebook:
Schnitzel King’s owners are remaining party to a lawsuit led by the Institute for Justice, which posts on the matter:
Violate that rule, and entrepreneurs can face fines of up to $2,000 — ten times the penalty for parking in front of a fire hydrant. To enforce the 200-foot rule, Chicago is forcing all food truck owners to install a GPS tracking device that reports each truck’s every move. That invasion of privacy shows a shameful lack of respect for Chicagoans’ constitutional rights.
Protecting restaurants from rolling competition was a stated goal of the regulations on food trucks, as I reported last year:
Government is just the word for things we choose to do together — like kill the American dream and protect incumbent businesses.
