[2064] in Discussion of MIT-community interests
Re: [Mit-talk] [UA-SCATR] New Card initiative
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Mon Jul 10 13:49:18 2006
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:48:35 -0400
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@mit.edu>
To: Peter Finin <pfinin@alum.mit.edu>
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Peter Finin <pfinin@alum.mit.edu> wrote on Mon, 10 Jul 2006
at 13:05:15 -0400 in <1d5e69660607101005s3021aba3h7db17804c59b412c@mail.gmail.com>:
> I think this is pretty clearly directly attributable to the trucks
> being the least intitutional, least managed, most numerous, and thus
> by definition most competitive options. They're absolutely market
> driven, I'm quite certain they recieve no subsidy, and I think they
> generally operate almost entirely independently of the institute.
I expect there is more regulation than you might expect, though
perhaps it has to do with the fact that most of them operate on MIT
property.
I distinctly recall seeing the proprietor of the pizza truck (Yona's
Pizza) in the student center repeatedly this past year (~6 times), I
believe because he had to spend a lot of time with the Office of
Campus Dining. I certainly don't know the details, but it sure looked
regulatory.
Further, I believe the city licenses food trucks; at least those
on Mass Ave.
For a while, we had a late-night food truck in front of 77,
"Marty B's Mobile Meals." There was a brief article about it
in the July 7, 2004 issue of The Tech (PDF only, upper-left corner
of p.4, http://www-tech.mit.edu/V124/PDF/N29.pdf). But then
the truck disappeared (perhaps it was just a summer phenomenon?).
On the other hand, I was told that Marty B's was back a few weeks ago,
though I haven't actually seen it.
--jhawk
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