Vinny Navarro, the cart owner, got a permit from the city. He followed the rules.
Maybe the restaurant owner should think about it this way: someone walks by on their lunch break to get a hot dog...while waiting, they notice the restaurant and make note to check out the restaurant for dinner. Everybody wins!
According to the article, Vinny even sells hot dogs until 3am on club nights. To me, that's genius. Back home, when the clubs let out there are certain food places that get tons of business. Go by a Williams Chicken at 2am and you'll see what I'm talking about.
We were real excited when we saw the hot dog vendor on Main. To us, It's a sign that downtown is growing and foot traffic is increasing to the point where someone is trying to make a living as a vendor. You want a "real" downtown? Well, a real downtown includes vendors along with sidewalk musicians and people like that.
As long as no one is down there selling gold chains from the inside of their trench coat, I'm cool with it.
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Street vendors and a downtown trolley system would be fantastic.
I have gotten all my friends and colleagues to call Porta di Roma at (214) 752-0855 and tell them we have read the article about the hot dog vendor and will no longer eat at their restaurant.
This is what happened in East Dallas a few years ago. The restaurants lobbied to make street vendors (then largely Asian) vanish. As a result, when I went out to find 'street food' vendors of all kinds and stripes for a 'D' mag. piece ( May '08 and again online version last month) the pickings were slim. One minute I feel sorry for the struggling restaurant owners and then something like this.
When someone who is hard working and legally striving offers something afforable and spontaneous in this economy, it's not the protesting restaurant I'll defend. This has happened before.
There is no doubt that if you want to be serious about downtown, you have to have a hot dog vendor. Hand and Glvoe
It is nice to see something besides a valet stand positioned on a sidewalk downtown!
I'd like to see more vendors musicians and the amount of valet stands and their coned-off parking spaces reduce (or better yet consolidate) so people are inclined to actually walk around downtown a little instead of only going the 5 feet from restaurant door to curb, into their car and away from downtown as conveniently as possible...
While they're walking, perhaps they'll enjoy a hot dog too!
just read this article
good for everyone supporting the vendor, I own BIG DADDYS DAWG HOUSE
everyone come out this weekend 6/12 and support us at the Dallas City Arts Festival
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