WOODLAND, Calif. - The city of Woodland is cracking down on pop-ups, the mobile street vendors selling food in parking lots.
At least one restaurant has closed its door and is, in part, blaming the illegal competition.
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10 to 1 says Woodland's a sanctuary city.
No GOOD restaurant will close because of pop-up vendors, food trucks, or even other restaurants. Mid to lower tier restaurants might because they don't compete in multiple ways, but that's the fault of the owner, not the competition.
ReplyDeleteThere are a lot of good restaurants closing in California. It's a matter of "death by a thousand cuts".
Deleteie: Imagine if you will that you're running a business and your power bill exceeds the rent you pay on your leased commercial space. Thanks PG&E, and the state apparatchiks that have enabled them.
Woodland is cracking down on competition and choice for consumers.
ReplyDeleteYou get what you tolerate. Some are guilty, some are just do nothing bystanders.
ReplyDeleteYes, Woodland is a sanctuary city, since 2017.
ReplyDeleteAt least 10 percent of the population of Woodland is undocumented.
I'm sure Cali's city/county/state (over)regulations and inflated minimum wages have nothing to do with restaurants closing down.
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"The idea that higher taxes and more regulations are causing businesses to leave California is a myth."
DeleteDarrell Steinberg, current mayor of Sacramento and former big cheese of the California state senate.
He's a clueless labor attorney by profession who has the voice of a squirrel. Which is only fitting.
There are a list of taxes, regulations, health codes the brick and mortar store has to follow. The pop up should have to meet the same hinderances.
ReplyDeleteGiven how stellar a job the FDA has done in making our food (and drug, and vaccine) supply safe, I'm totally with the roadside burrito sellers on this issue. Food safety laws don't protect squat. Except the incomes of large slaughterhouses, large farming operations, and large food processing plants. Bastards ought to hang.
ReplyDeleteJohn G.