There’s a story at the Los Angeles Times about schools’ use of food-truck nights as fundraisers. Angel Jennings reports that
Outdoor food courts are popping up in the parking lots of at least a dozen high schools across Southern California with more on the way. Financially strapped public schools – hit hard by budget cuts, new fundraising guidelines, and fewer donors – have found a way to capitalize on the food truck craze.
Schools typically earn up to $50 per food truck nightly. It’s small change that quickly adds up, said Bryan Glonchak, assistant principal at Whitney [High School]. Since school opened, Whitney has made a total of $2,000 on the fund-raiser.
In most cases, schools host weekly food truck events, in which up to 10 vendors gather at dinnertime. Facebook and Twitter help spread the word.
The money is then used to fund scholarships, pay for equipment and school projects.
The story offers proof of food trucks’ popularity. They’ve become trendy.
Cities’ occasional efforts against food trucks are not merely bad for consumers and hardworking small-business vendors; those hostile efforts are also ignorant of the positive reception now-fashionable vendors find among discerning customers across America.
See, previously, Visit to a Food-Truck Paradise, with links to posts about efforts to defend street vendors’ and consumers’ rights.