According to Yum Yum Food Truck’s Facebook page, the City of Fort Worth has shuttered the downtown food trucks until after the Super Bowl.

So much for the Super Bowl being a great thing for businesses. I suppose that needs to be amended to include “unless it doesn’t fall in line with approved PR goals.” The city’s made downtown a “clean zone” during the Super Bowl run-up, prohibiting temporary signage and vending (among other things), citing some suspect “safety” concerns and trying to promote “good order and aesthetic quality.” Oddly enough, other cities don’t equate gourmet food trucks with a lack of “good order and aesthetic quality.” After all, if lots of people gathering at a food truck is a “safety” and “aesthetic quality” concern, one could take that to its logical-but-ridiculous conclusion and say that restaurants will also cause the same problems and should be temporarily shut down as well. Read the rest <here>