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az mike · BBQ Fan Joined: 13 Nov 2008 Posts: 382 Location: seaz

I've been out of touch with my cooking for a few months while I worked another job. I looked at the local paper and saw that where there was one and maybe two food vendors at the small market now there are six! I worked this market a few times, Earth Day etc and found it marginal with two cookers.... good luck folks! Are you guys seeing lots more vendors?

BBQMAN · Posted: Jul 01 2011 Post subject:

Welcome back Mike! Cool

I only vend my fresh market Oct-May.

We have about 2 dozen food vendors.

On slow days it kinda blows- too much food, too few customers.

On beautiful chamber of commerce Saturdays it rocks.

Not much in-between.
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smokelahoma · BBQ Fan Joined: 22 Mar 2009 Posts: 314

last year there were 2-5 mobile food vendores in tulsa.
the health department has like 50 applicants this year

not for events just for street vending
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Smoky Bro · Posted: Jul 08 2011 Post subject:

yep, I think between the economy and the current trendiness of mobile food vendors there's a lot more everywhere now.

where I used to live (san fran) there's a fancy hot dog/ice cream/sushi/bbq bus on every block nowadays

where I live now (very small town in rural western mass) theres a bunch. since we've opened -- just 2 months -- theres 3 new hot dog carts, another bbq guy, and two places doing weekly pig roasts all within about 15 miles. and these towns are SMALL too, like 2000 people or less.