What's up with the 50 foot rule around restaurant openings? Does that mean just the night a new restaurant opens, or do food carts have to stay 50 feet away from any open restaurants?

Math is a tricky thing.

While the drop from 35 street vendors to 23 may be seen as a 34% drop, it also is a loss of twelve food carts from the street. But, as you noted, fifteen new food trucks have gotten licenses in that same period of time. So the glaringly obvious question -- left inexplicably unanswered by this bit of reporting -- would seem to be:

How many of those new food truck owners were former food cart owners that have upgraded/expanded their entrepreneurial business into food-truck-dom over the last year, thanks to the change in laws?

What @2 said.

I have a more basic question, I work in downtown and every fucking day I am hard pressed to find many food trucks except for the Japanesse hot dog place off Pike and second.

If there is this increase were the fuck are they all parked?

I really used to like the idea of food trucks, but here in SF it seems we're paying a premium for the distinction of buying food from the window of truck, rather than from a restaurant with chairs and employees and permanent roots. My stomach enjoys me some foodtrucks, but somewhere between my wallet and the very tiny part of my brain where reason is stored, I find myself steering clear of the things these days.

@4 - Skillet has a truck near 5th and Union on Tuesdays. Their fried-chicken sandwich is delicious.

@4 Actually the number of Food Trucks in *downtown* Seattle seems to be significantly decreased, while the number in South Lake Union has dramatically increased. But if you're ever wondering exactly where their at, check out our map at http://seattle.FoodTruckCarte.com and use the Neighborhood filter to find Downtown or wherever you happen to be.

@6 Gourmet Dog Japon is indeed a Food Cart, but Tokyo Dog is a Truck, which can be found here: http://seattle.foodtruckcarte.com/food/T…