Entries Tagged as 'SoCalMFVA_Public'

Wednesday, January 11th, 2012

The First Heated Gourmet Food Truck Lot in Los Angeles

(Santa Monica) – With winter season just around the corner, the wildly popular Santa Monica food truck lot is busy making preparations to make itself even more enticing to customers. Since the start of the new year, it has become the first food truck lot in Southern California to provide heat lamps for its customers [...]

Sunday, May 2nd, 2010

Lots of lots

I’ve been getting quite a few emails suggesting lots in various places. A lot of the requests are from people in the Valley. Unfortunately, I don’t have a lot of time to make the trip out there to investigate. It’s hard to follow up on all the leads, especially when I don’t have phone numbers [...]

Friday, April 23rd, 2010

What's going on?

This Summer is going to be a big one for Food Trucks. Good weather plus amazing food, equals happy Los Angelinos…  We’re continuing to look for new locations, lots and events for the trucks to be a part of. Our Century Lot is doing great. We’ll have six or seven trucks there every Tuesday. The [...]

Tuesday, April 13th, 2010

Thank You!

Over the past 10 days the food truck supporters and followers have really come through for the food truck industry with emails and calls to Councilman Koretz. Paul Koretz commented on our campaign in an interview with LAist.com.   I’m still not completely satisfied with his “nuisance” comment, but I am happy that he has clarified [...]

Thursday, April 8th, 2010

You don't call… You don't write…

Last Thursday, we started our email campaign to let Paul Koretz know how many supporters the Food Truck industry in Los Angeles has.  So far, he has not responded to anyone.  The only emails back are generic auto-response emails that have nothing to do with the Food Trucks.  Today I’m going to call and see [...]

Monday, April 5th, 2010

Making an Impact

Thank you to everyone that has taken the time to write Councilman Paul Koretz.  City Council offices take opposition emails very seriously, and it will be interesting to see how they handle the outpouring of support. So far, nobody has reported a reply from the Councilman’s office.  From what I can tell there have been [...]

Thursday, April 1st, 2010

Food Truck Foes

It always makes me nervous when City, State, or Federal officials take the side of one business, or industry over another.  Competition is a  healthy part of the marketplace and the real beneficiaries of competition are the consumer.  Unfortunately, Los Angeles City Councilman Paul Koretz disagrees. A quote from Councilman Koretz concerning food trucks, “A [...]

Wednesday, March 31st, 2010

Choices

The growing food truck trend is providing customers/followers with reasonably priced food all over the city.  People are no longer limited to the restaurant options in their immediate area.  This is especially beneficial to employees who have limited lunch breaks and are restricted to one particular area.  Additionally, the trucks have become destinations for many people looking [...]

Saturday, February 27th, 2010

The Association

Lots of lots!  The Association is working towards opening a lot in your part of the city as quickly as we can.  If you have lot site suggestions, please fill out our contact form and let us know. The Association is continuing to grow.  More and more trucks means more and more choices in a [...]