Local restaurants are upset with the abundance of food trucks doing business in the area, saying the mobile eateries are taking away business from formal restaurants.
Members of the newly formed Washington Circle Business Association debated the trucks Wednesday, saying the trucks directly compete with restaurants but incur fewer expenses.
“If someone has a food truck right outside my restaurant and doesn’t pay rent, clearly they can sell a burger for a lot less than I can,” Jeremy Pollok, a managing partner at Tonic, said.