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Street food scene leveled by COVID-19 pandemic

Food trucks are a fixture at breweries, office complexes, and community festivals. For Cary’s Downtown Chowdown, typically held in April, food trucks span the length of Academy Street. People pack in and lines form. Long lines. Patios around breweries fill quickly. People head to the bar and, oftentimes, the ubiquitous food truck. Cary’s April Chowdown...

Brooke Conrad
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Carolina Beach backtracks on food truck law

Carolina Beach has overturned its law prohibiting out-of-town food trucks from serving the community after the Institute for Justice filed a lawsuit on behalf of food truck owners. The Carolina Beach Town Council held an evening closed door session Tuesday, Aug. 28, and scrapped the law, which would have allowed only brick-and-mortar restaurants to operate...

Lindsay Marchello
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Institute for Justice, food trucks suing Carolina Beach over food truck law

WILMINGTON — A new law in Carolina Beach cracking down on food trucks will be served in court. The Institute for Justice on Tuesday, Aug. 21, announced a lawsuit against the town over the move. The lawsuit is a response to a town ordinance passed in April allowing brick-and-mortar restaurants to venture into the food...

Lindsay Marchello
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Raleigh gets middling ratings in study of U.S. food-truck ‘friendliness’

A new report from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation ranks Raleigh 11th out of 20 cities for ease in operating food trucks within city limits. It’s the only North Carolina city ranked in the report. With help from the Institute of Justice and the National Food Truck Association, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation...

Lindsay Marchello

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