No Room To Roam

Trucking through legal chaos, 'tweet vendors' collide with a city tough on enforcing old rules in a changing sales scene

September 01, 2010|By DAN GERINGER, geringd@phillynews.com 215-854-5961
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McCusker said that his farm-fresh gourmet breakfast and lunch tacos, touted on Twitter and Facebook, have attracted their own customer base, so he doesn't need to be in a crowded "hot spot" to sell his food.

He makes his tacos to order in what used to be the Viva Las Vegans truck before it was Honest Tom's.

On Saturdays at 6 a.m., McCusker pulls up at the farmers market in Clark Park, on Chester Avenue near 43rd, buys his taco ingredients from the farmers, and sells breakfast and lunch tacos until he runs out of food.

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But even McCusker's hassle-free life as a roaming food truck entrepreneur felt the chill of the Cupcake Lady confiscation.

"Since they took that lady's truck, every day I'm thinking something is going to happen to me," McCusker said. "They give you this list of restricted blocks and the list is so hard to understand that I don't think even they understand it.

"What they should do is say, 'OK, you want to be a roamer? Give us a thousand bucks and you can roam anywhere you want.' And I'd say, 'Here's your thousand bucks.' End of story."

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