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185 Berry has been hosting daily food-truck minipods (JapaCurry, Senor Sisig, Little Green Cyclo, Brass Knuckle, and more) since Specialty's departed. They'll disappear once Focaccia starts selling, says Richard Hayes, vice president of leasing for McCarthy Cook, the company that manages China Basin.

The owners behind 32 trucks are banding together to form the New York City Food Truck Association. The group hired Capalino & Co. to push for speedier licensing and the right to park and vend at metered spots.

That’s right, Jack in the Box is taking its fast-food show on the road and will soon be coming to an event, venue or street near you.

Los Angeles is toughening its rules starting Tuesday, with a ban on smoking in outdoor dining areas that even includes areas near food trucks.

Allowing a street vendor to set up shop would be unfair to "businesses already in town paying property taxes and overhead costs, hanging on by their fingernails," Rosemary Rillo told the City Council Tuesday.

Advocates for Atlanta’s burgeoning street food scene say it has the potential to grow five to 10 times its current size and could become an economic driver that puts hundreds of local residents to work.

"The mobile food movement will also continue to gain steam in 2011", Riehle says.

Vancouver is looking to become the first city in Canada to implement minimum nutritional standards for new street food vendors.

So why do these chuck wagons continue to roll during winter? Simple: They have bills to pay, such as commissary and vehicle storage fees, and people to keep employed.

When the Heavenly Mountain Resort in Lake Tahoe, Nev., wanted to promote its ski passes this season, it chose a food truck filled with snow cones driven by two improv actors to publicize its message.