As a quick serve restaurant owner who pays high rent to be where he is (and is locked into a long term lease), I say "go fuck yourself, Seattle." If my sales drop because some non-rent paying douche bag starts parking on my block and undercuts my prices, I will do everything I can to fuck over this city in terms of underreporting my sales and anything else I can think of. Want food trucks? Great, have them park in an empty lot somewhere away from the high rent areas.

@8. You can go fuck yourself too. If they can't afford it, then they shouldn't be in my neighborhood taking business away from those of us who went deep into debt to open a business because we THOUGHT WE KNEW THE ENVIRONMENT WE WERE GOING TO BE OPERATING IN! When the city comes out and changes the rules after we've already sunk a couple hundred grand and says "hey, here's some new competition that don't have a quarter of your operating costs" then I feel justified to complain all I want. "Good ambience and good food" is only half the battle. People will still go to the place that is a couple dollars cheaper in my niche (qsr). In their never-ending quest to be hip and "world class" this city will end up fucking themselves again. I will underreport by whatever I feel is fair to make up for my lost sales and I'm sure others will do the same. This policy will still probably result in more empty storefronts which means more lost revenue for the city. Good job dipshits. Feel as trendy as Portland now?

I heart you akb.