July 29, 2011 by Leave a Comment

Food trucks get around the new around the city

Food trucks gather to become food truck courts in private open spaces and their fan base continues to grow as strict laws increase
The Lot of Tap and The Long Island City Food Truck Court draw in mobile food vendors such as Treats Truck and Rickshaw Dumpling
Food Trucks, such as Wafels & Dinges, shift their strategies to comply with new laws by using
food carts
Food Trucks move to the outer boroughs– Staten Island and Queens are seeing more mobility
PR Newswire highlights a Technomic Food Truck Report, which shows that 91% of consumers strongly support food trucks, and only 7% said that their visits would decrease

https://paigepapers.com/2011/07/29/foodtrucksgoaroundrules/

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Critics and consumers get sensitive about food descriptions

The Vocabulary for food and product descriptors becomes controversial
Steve’s Craft Ice Cream, which recently opened, wasn’t well received after using “curated and composed” to describe the product
Chow gives their list of 78 of the most annoying words used to describe food & products
Writer Rebecca Marx of Fork in the Road, a Village Voice food blog, deciphers the annoyance of words such as artisanal and curated

https://paigepapers.com/2011/07/29/fooddescriptionsbacklash/

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Greene Grape Annex is now open

The Greene Grape opens The Greene Grape Annex, serving Blue Bottle Coffee
Lookout for the space to open next month at 680 Fulton St (at S. Portland Ave)

https://paigepapers.com/2011/07/29/greenegrapeannexnowopen/

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Potbelly Sandwich Shop is spreading across the Big Apple

Potbelly Sandwich Shop “is spreading like wildfire” says Rebecca Marx from Fork in The Road
It’s Financial District location on 101 Maiden Lane, which opened at the end of June 2011, was the first of the chain’s plan for a fast-growing New York City domination

https://paigepapers.com/2011/07/29/potbelly_rebeccamarx/

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Growth in Farm-to-School programs

Farm-to-School education becomes nationally popular.
Engaging schoolchildren on locally grown food has surged in the U.S., which now has 2,500 programs catering to over 10,000 schools

https://paigepapers.com/2011/07/29/farmtoschoolprogramsgrow/

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Forsyth Street Market vendors dispute against city tickets

The Forsyth Street Market, which started in 2005 as a way to give Chinatown access to fresh produce, fights back against New York authorities.
Food vendors are being forced out due an increase in tickets received by city police mostly for produce items not being in or under the cart. Vendors held a protest on July 20th during the Urban Justice Center’s press conference on Forsyth Street

https://paigepapers.com/2011/07/29/forsythstreetmarket_fightnyc/

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