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[quote=Anonymous]Took my son into DC today on Election Day (no school) to visit a museum. We live in Bethesda and don't get down to the mall much recently. When I saw the many food trucks, I immediately thought of this thread. I was surprised how many food trucks are there and the low quality nature of all of them (many looked the same, with neon pictures of the same hot dogs, tacos, chicken, and Philly steak sandwiches and ice cream). Very unimpressive. Worse than the ugly hot dog trucks/vendors in NYC which look dirty and run down.

I ran into a situation today with one of the trucks. We wanted a light lunch before the museum so decided to try a food truck. I went up to one truck and ordered a basic Philly cheesesteak, with hopes it would be something like a real cheesesteak in Philadelphia. The signage only had faint pricing on it (white board type marker "conveniently" in a light ink) The pricing was $7.99 but only if you looked closely. When she handed me the sandwich which was fairly small), she asked for $12. I said "12 for a sandwich"? Your sign says $7.99 in ink that was barely legible. I said $12 is high for such a small sandwich and why is her signage different? She said that was her price and prices went up. I thought to myself "ok but they went up by $5)?  I pulled out $8 in cash and paid her this amount. Walked away. Around the corner next to the museum, there was many more trucks and I noticed all had pricing clearly listed. Their Philly sandwiches were all $8.99. Annoyed this woman was trying to charge me $12 for a tiny sandwich from her truck (which had very little meat)....

I learned my lesson to reconfirm price and not fall into a tourist trap which this woman was cleaning trying to pull off...Annoyed to think she must get away with her "made on the spot" pricing for tourists.

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