Yes, because actually abandoning brick and mortar businesses and opening up a food truck is as ridiculous as claiming it's not "fair if a restaurant is paying 5k or 10k a month in rent to operate at a certain location and someone else can just roll up a truck and sell food 10 feet away from their front door" It's completely fair because if your brick and mortar businesses can't compete with a food truck then maybe you shouldn't be in business. Or maybe the food truck is onto something.

You are just calling my point dumb and restating your own. You are not actually explaining anything beyond your original posts.

You need to look at the terms of this "competition". If the advantages to the food trucks are really just them taking advantage of problems in the regulations, then it is the city's role to step in and sort that out.

The city charging drastically different taxes and fees to two businesses competing in the same space is a problem in the regulation.

It's a combination of quality and price. You think you could roll up in a food truck next to The Stockyards and take away enough people going there for fried chicken that they'd have to close up? Good luck. You should have the right to try.

I'm sure you could steal a good chunk of business from them, especially if it is busy and there is a wait. Is it necessarily fair for a competing truck to be able to just park outside of their established restaurant only when it is busy?

Again, when your citizens and businesses can operate in such a way that encourage spending the city and community will improve for everyone. Stifling competition and discouraging innovation for something like food is not how you improve a community.

How does the simple act of spending money necessarily improve the community? Those food trucks don't necessarily have any connection to the community. Many trucks drive in from other cities.

It is valuable to a community to have restaurants and cafes that are there more than just for the busiest times of day.