Council needs to BAN food trucks around the Mall

[Anonymous]

Hell no! I love the food trucks!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm sick of them, they don't serve anything healthy that my DS could eat, they're loud and sit idle and pollute the air. Please ban them, have the NPS set up more permanent food stands instead.

LOL- suck it up and make your DS a sandwich. It amazes me the entitlement!

[Anonymous]

My kid loves a hot salted pretzel.

[Anonymous]

My issue is not the quality of food but the sheer amount of food trucks now. There are so many. The idle and pollute, on the weekends they take up all the parking spots. And now they’re even on the inside of the mall. They make so much noise and so much pollution.

I liked having some food trucks because it was fun to try different foods but now it’s the same crappy food over and over again.

Dc went from one extreme, just having a couple of hot dog carts allowed, to the deep end of miles of food trucks.

[Anonymous]

While I wish they were cheaper and the food was better, they are WAY better than the days when the ONLY food available on the National Mall was the hotdogs and halfsmokes from what a colleague of mine referred to as the "roach coaches".

[Anonymous]

They are really the worst on 15th street

[Anonymous]

What if they ran on solar? Then would you be ok with them?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My issue is not the quality of food but the sheer amount of food trucks now. There are so many. The idle and pollute, on the weekends they take up all the parking spots. And now they’re even on the inside of the mall. They make so much noise and so much pollution.

I liked having some food trucks because it was fun to try different foods but now it’s the same crappy food over and over again.

Dc went from one extreme, just having a couple of hot dog carts allowed, to the deep end of miles of food trucks.

This! We were down on the mall for the first time in a while this past weekend and DH and I were wondering if there had always been that many food trucks, but now I feel vindicated that there are way more than there used to be. And sometimes 4-5 ice cream trucks- selling the exact same items- lined up next to eachother. But yeah the smell from the exhaust is terrible and the options were pretty crappy.

[Anonymous]

My DS CANNOT eat that food, please have some kind of compassion.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My issue is not the quality of food but the sheer amount of food trucks now. There are so many. The idle and pollute, on the weekends they take up all the parking spots. And now they’re even on the inside of the mall. They make so much noise and so much pollution.

I liked having some food trucks because it was fun to try different foods but now it’s the same crappy food over and over again.

Dc went from one extreme, just having a couple of hot dog carts allowed, to the deep end of miles of food trucks.

This! We were down on the mall for the first time in a while this past weekend and DH and I were wondering if there had always been that many food trucks, but now I feel vindicated that there are way more than there used to be. And sometimes 4-5 ice cream trucks- selling the exact same items- lined up next to eachother. But yeah the smell from the exhaust is terrible and the options were pretty crappy.

Dcist, 7 on your side, or the WaPo should write a story on this.

It’s just too much.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My DS CANNOT eat that food, please have some kind of compassion.

This is a terrible reason to ban all food trucks. Do you see how self-centered it is?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My DS CANNOT eat that food, please have some kind of compassion.

This is a terrible reason to ban all food trucks. Do you see how self-centered it is?

That’s a troll.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My DS CANNOT eat that food, please have some kind of compassion.

This is a terrible reason to ban all food trucks. Do you see how self-centered it is?

You're not responding to a serious post, although I feel like the original must be the same.

[Anonymous]

I'm really annoyed at the busted up cars that they use to save the spots overnight too. Those cars are just covered in parking tickets and boots and they are really beat up.

I love food trucks normally, but these food trucks on the mall are a blight. Nasty food, nasty old trucks, pollution and they're expensive. I also don't like the tacky souvenir stands too. Plus that's like 100 less parking spots for everyone else.

[Anonymous]

Are these things regulated? Are there food safety inspections?