CONWAY — Are food trucks fair to brick-and-mortar restaurants? That was the question posed by Hooligans Restaurant owner James DeMonico at the July 13 Conway Planning Board meeting.
DeMonico said two food trucks are now located at the former Rafferty’s Restaurant as well as another one at Poppy & Vale, directly across from his restaurant.
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Is he complaining about the Food Court heading in where Olympia was? And if anyone built a restaurant on the land the trucks reside on? Once the door to unbridled capitalism was removed, why complain about what so-called free markets result in? I haven't heard local hotels and motels screaming that the town continues to allow bigger hotels be built. This is a system that enables commerce and development no matter the cost so why complain of what is merely more competition? Offer something extraordinary and get people in but in a tourist reliant area, to complain about food trucks is illogical, given the ethos of capitalism.
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