Coming to Terms With a Street Food Boom
As dozens of new licensed and unlicensed mobile vendors vie for spaces at San Francisco’s parks and sidewalks, and customers line up for their food, the city is coming to grips with the street food phenomenon.
Officials are concerned that unlicensed vendors are operating without health department inspections, and brick-and-mortar restaurants and shops complain that street merchants’ low costs give them an unfair advantage.
Yet the city doesn’t want to discourage mobile food vending, which can enliven neighborhoods and help entrepreneurs enter the marketplace more easily.
Bevan Dufty, a city supervisor whose district includes Dolores Park and the Castro, where street food sellers and restaurants have clashed, has organized a hearing for March 8. The city’s departments of planning, health, police and parks are all involved in enforcing rules on vending, and Mr. Dufty hopes to clarify and streamline the process.
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