Mobile vendors will pull into the High Dive parking lot on Saturday as Gainesville’s original food truck rally returns to downtown.
Ten trucks set up shop at the rally, up from six at the first event
When you’re coming here, you’re getting a certain experience. But you know when you go to a food truck, you do it because … it’s quick. It’s cheaper, you know, but it’s still quality food
I think food trucks offer a lot more variety, especially at a rally, because you can try one food truck and then another
La Lola Loca combines everything I love about about Mexican [food]
Similiar food trucks exist at University of Alabama, University of Tennessee and Florida State University.
On Monday, they talked about the upsides of the trucks as well as the potential roadblocks, both on the permitting side and on the business side, as more vendors could mean competition for brick-and-mortar restaurants.
The staff wrote that the vehicles add an “abundance of quirky character” and “enhance street life” to cities across America.
