State-Licensed Food Truck Banned by Town: Family-Owned Business Threatened With $500 Daily Fines

we came here hoping we were going to be an asset to the community we moved across the country we put our savings and our work into this trying to revitalize it [Music] our food truck is in compliance with State Department of Agriculture licensing and all county zoning to operate the mobile restaurants it will be located here on our property at the white cottage red door just south of Fish Creek BBQ pulled pork brisket smoked sausage ribs our food trucks first day operating did not go exactly as planned it just so happened that my very first customer was the town constable he came in to let us know that we were operating illegally I was able to show him my permits and he ordered a bacon cheeseburger went on his way and I'm about 30 minutes later the town chairman showed up showed him the permits from the county and the state he said well I think that's all I need to see after that first day because we had all the proper documentation we felt that was the end of it our Town Board had several meetings about our food truck they demanded that the county revoke our permit the county responded by saying we're not going to revoke the permit because it was issued legally after the town board got the letter from the county it was brought up again at one of the board meetings we are going to draft an ordinance that says that there are not any food trucks allowed in the town of Gibraltar the bending law pretty much prohibits any type of mobile restaurant in the town according to the ordinance we would be fined $500 a day for operating our food truck I personally have had to go and get another job just to be able to make ends meet any customers should be able to buy from our food truck as well as any other restaurant in the community I feel that they should have the option to make their own choice politicians shouldn't stack the deck against people that are just trying to make a living because they want to protect their own special interest we've sought out the Institute for justice because they have teamed up with other entrepreneurs and cities like El Paso and Louise in Baltimore to try to overturn this unfair ban that the town of Gibraltar has brought against us [Music]

Channel: Institute for Justice

Views: 156,890

Rating: 4.8997836 out of 5

Keywords: IJ, Institute for Justice, Freedom, Liberty, Individual Rights, Constitution, Constitutional Law, Unconstitutional Law, Con Law, Constitutional Litigation

Id: 9esT2QmSWco

Length: 2min 59sec (179 seconds)

Published: Thu May 10 2018