I love the food trucks…quality of service, food and price are superb. What I don’t like is paying to get into a food truck festival. Why collect only 2.00 admission? Why not collect 10.00 or 12.00 and let the public eat? I don’t pay to get into a food court to find a variety of vendors….the vendors pay for their own advertising. SO why am I paying the coast again??
Find a corporate sponsor. Find a better reason to make people line up and wait. Hell if vendors didn’t have to make change there’d be no line-up at the trucks either.
I paid 6.00 for my family to get in to the first one at a venue you didn’t even have to rent and I am still waiting for that meal. —hungry angry mama ferret
This article appears in Aug 20-26, 2015.
You don’t need to go to a festival to eat food truck crap…
Shut up and heart local, cheapie.
I believe the $2 donation is collected for charity. That’s what it said on the event page for the first food truck party I attended with my family.
Touche!
I thought it was for the electricity and stuff in the museum parking lot, or that is what I read in the Coast.
As with many such events, the admission fee is really meant to keep out the people who would show up to hang around, not spend a dime, and make a nuisance of themselves. I know at least one middle aged cheapskate who would simply show up to complain about the prices and lear at the women – so it is money well spent.
‘…..Why not collect 10.00 or 12.00 and let the public eat?’
Yeah, right. So Fatty McRipplelard & her pudgy porker kids pays $10.00 and eats her way through six trucks of grub. Yeah, that would work.
Take a look at Buskers Fest and other free shit. The fee and fences keep out the riff-raff.
De-touche…
This event should have been for a longer time period. There were way too many people trying to get food in the 4 hours period. I ended going to the food truck stop place in Burnside, where no one was waiting for an hour to get food. The prices at the food truck festival appeared to be extremely inflated anyway.
Of course the prices are extremely inflated, you don’t expect to pay foodtruck prices for foodtruck food when foodtruck food is the latest craze, do you? (even featured in National Geographic last month, WTF?). Stop being so cheap and “heart” local, cheap bastard.
Freakazoid said, “Fatty McRipplelard & her pudgy porker kids”
I actually feel sorry for the fat little ones with their orange-cheese-puff-stained sausage fingers. One day I saw a kid of about six try to catch up to the rest of his waddling family and the poor little bugger was literally incapable of running. It was very sad to see. His chances of overcoming childhood obesity are very slim and by the time he is 20 he will already have the cardiovascular system of an average unfit 50 year old.
*sigh*
I really hate saying this, but the LTWWB comment board is a private entity. The owners can do whatever they really like. You want your freedom of speech? Make your own bloggy type place and have at ‘er.
My firm belief is that they’re just trying to stop the brutal sniping between the commenters is all. And sometimes from a third person view, some of the ‘friendly banter’ really looks way aggressive.
*ducks and head back off the soapbox*
I thought the “brutal sniping” (which seems oxymoronic) was what most people enjoyed? I dare say some of the “brutal sniping” I engaged in with my co-commentors was never of or meant to be of, any harm. Why I even share vintage bottles of wine with Montrealman!
I said I thought someone’s point of view was foolish and my comment was deleted. I guess that is the new line.
Yup, you got me.