Save the Food Trucks of Jersey City

"YOUR support is IMPORTANT to save the Food-trucks in Jersey City"

LACK OF OPTIONS

The Food Trucks in Jersey City offer a very credible breakfast/lunch/dinner option to the people working and living in the neighborhood.

For me personally, after having worked in Manhattan and having enjoyed the multitude of food options out there - it hard adjusting to the scarcity of good budget-lunch-options in the Exchange Place neighborhood of Jersey City. But soon I discovered the 'Hot Soup' truck serving Soup / Chicken-over-rice for under $6 and the 'Taste of India' food truck serving a wholesome meal for $7. 'Mr Softee' would also park itself next to the trucks - giving corporate-workers an affordable dessert option. 'Banana Leaf' and a mediterranian cart followed with the same sub-$8 lunch options -- and we finally thought Jersey City was matching up to the options we had in Manhattan.

HUGE FINES BY THE POLICE / HARASSING BY LOCAL RESTAURANTS

One day while I was picking up my lunch with some colleagues, I found a police fining the food trucks. I was shocked to learn that the fines were not small - they ran into a few thousand dollars. And this was not a single stray incident -- they were fined almost everyday they stood there.

It seems that the local restaurants had felt threatened that they would lose business because of these food trucks and they had provoked the police and the City to take action against them.

Now, that only means the restaurants want to force us by limiting our options! Which for me, as a consumer, sounds ridiculous.

WHAT WE CAN DO

The food trucks are an essential part Jersey City's food landscape providing great food at affordable prices. In tough and uncertain times like these, shouldn't we have only more of these options available to us?

Please sign this petition if:
* You're a patron of the food-trucks that dot Jersey City
* You love the food they serve
* You have been affected by the random absence of these food trucks
* You want to have a CHOICE of where you get your food from

If enough people sign this, we'll make sure our voices are heard by the local administrators at the City Hall of Jersey City.