The “Water Cooler” is a feature on Claycord.com where we ask you a question or provide a topic, and you talk about it.
The “Water Cooler” will be up Monday-Friday at noon.
Today’s question:
QUESTION: Do you think authorities should crack down on people who illegally sell food on the street, or do you think they should be left alone?
Talk about it….
How do you know they are illegal or have a permit?
Captain Bebops,
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In the City of Concord, street vendors are supposed to have their city issued permits visible and on display.
Or display them on request? I see the same vendors in shopping centers year after year and if they didn’t have the permit would have been run off. But they don’t openly display them and may not have a place in their booth or whatever to display it so but probably okay if they can just pull it out and show someone inquiring.
yup!
Yes, something needs to be done about the illegal street vendors. This should be an easy fix because they’re required to have a city issued permit. If they don’t have the city permit, then shut them down.
And if they are selling food they need a food permit from the county Environmental Dept
If they are in the country illegally, and I suspect they are, our local authorities should not
only crack down on them, they should also notify ICE. I’m tired of the Left’s argument that
they came here looking for jobs and opportunity. Selling street food is an indication that
the jobs and opportunity they came here for didn’t work out for them. Our government will gladly board them on a plane and fly them back to their country of origin, where they can continue with their street food enterprise, and be with the friends and family they left
behind.
Crack down on them. Every restaurant, big or small, has to have food permits to sell food. Why shouldn’t they?????!!!!
Definitely crack down on anyone who is doing this.
Why do restaurants gotta have food permits but not them?!
Selling food on the sidewalks and in parking lots is getting out of hand.
Go rent a food truck, get a food license, and sell your food the right way like every other business.
Almost every parking lot or park has a food vendor.
Saw two people setting up a food stand literally on the property at the Grocery Outlet on Willow Pass Rd. They went on their sidewalk and started unloading food items to start selling. Ridiculous that the store allows it.
And if any of them are here illegally, they gotta go.
Who are you complain when you get food poisoning from a fly-by-night taco cart? No accountability = low quality.
Exiting Cal Football games, I’ve seen downright poor food safety practices by those vendors who have the grills. No refrigeration on the meat/sausages with flies crawling around on them. The food smells good, but I would rather vote for Donald Trump than eat that food. Well…on second thought maybe I’ll eat the food for the good of the country, the world and my portfolio…
I must say, those bacon wrapped hot dogs are the best after a midnight concert…I was shocked they accepted venmo, cash app, zelle..etc. they were more advanced than me with all of the money sending apps. The lady’s 10 year old son was helping with the money transactions! Everything was boiling cooking..I am sure all the bacteria was gonna…lol
Street vendors don’t affect my every day life so it personally does not bug me, especially when there’s actual illegal items being sold that should have more of an important to be taken care of. Also the street vendors food is straight fire.
Leave them alone. They have good food. I support them all the way. They are welcome to my house to cater whenever I have a get together. I might let them and theirs family stay in my house so my house can have multiple families with cars take over the street. Yay yay
Your sarcasm is showing.
A street vendor that stays overnight is likely a street walker.
Now in third world countries someone is getting a kickback(bribe) to have illegal food carts,,,,,seems we are fast becoming third world
Good point. People assume that the vendor is getting all the money. But many of these people speak little English and are probably being paid very little by their “patron”. In other words, supporting these vendors is encouraging their indentured servitude.
Well, when you only have people coming from 3rd world countries, eventually the scale tips. They certainly are not changing their culture or becomming better. So, here we are.
You have been living in a third world for a long time now…..your governments just want to make you believed that this AMERICA IS GREAT!
We have a guy who rides up here on a bicycle with a rainbow colored umbrella offering some sort of refreshments. It seems to be well received by the locals and a nice bit of culture.
I don’t mind if they are trying to earn a few bucks, but the horn honking has got to go. It’s right up there with a repetitive ice cream truck song heard emminating from a broken down truck driven by a guy wearing a turban.
So basically people are just trying to make a living. That’s okay with me.
Aren’t we all?
Well this was enlightening.
Street vendors should be banned everywhere.
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Their sales are unfair compared to brick & mortar stores that pay rent & insurance.
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Food vendors are even worse… a high potential for salmonella, listeria, botulism, and other food-borne diseases. If you patronize these scum, I hope you get diarrhea.
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You’re welcome.
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Jebadiah Springfield,
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According to the US Supreme Court, soliciting for money or “panhandling” on public property is a Freedom of Speech right under the First Amendment.
No… we should pick & choose who should obey the law & who should not.
All laws should be optional & arbitrary depending on the mood of the mob on the street.
Just in case there was any confusion….
I was being snarky & sarcastic (aka: “Snarkasm”).
crack down.
Yes, 100% crack down on illegal street vendors as we know they are not paying taxes and more than likely they are sucking up a bunch of other tax dollars as well using government programs. If we find they are here illegally, deport them while we’re at it!
If they legally permitted and operating in such a way as to not impede traffic then leave them alone, otherwise …..bye bye
I think it was a year or two ago that Martinez council passed a law allowing street vendors but they need a permit. Probably true in some other BA cities. It’s mainly a health issue.
this is not a country without law…. anyone with a restaurant has to have a permit and be inspected (unfortunately impacts the local lemonade stand) so the playing field needs to be level. This isn’t a third world country.
I always wonder who in the heck is going up to a total stranger on a random corner and buying anything to eat out of a Coleman cooler? Seems odd. I’m very happy with the way my syllables worked out back there, by the way. Unplanned!
Left alone
That they are usually typical trashy white trash Americans is not true. American Indians,
Blacks, and Hispanics are a small segment of the total population of the US, but they
represent a much larger segment of the homeless population than Whites. Allowing
more people into the US illegally has been instrumental in the growing homeless problem
in our country.
The cities allow it.
So, what’s to stop any and all businesses to got that route:
Auto repairs, shoe stores, new car tires, home furnishings,……
I see a guy on Detroit avenue near Clayton road constantly working on different vehicles so he’s obviously a shade tree mechanic, not paying any taxes and avoiding regulations. He’s not even doing it on his own private property, he literally does it on Detroit avenue. Every time I see his legs sticking out under a vehicle, I wonder when he will get run over and then we the tax payers will have to pay his medical expenses and disability checks. Merica 🇺🇸
Hey, I have seen this guy. Right on the corner, red zone. Unbelievable.
if they had no cliental the lights go out…blame those that do business with them.
Legalities don’t concern me as much as gastric distress does.
I saw a street vendor at Heather Farm Park. He seemed to be doing a lively business.
Some in cars, some on foot, some on bicycles. In each instance, the person left after a minute or so, and didn’t seem to be carrying anything new.
It seems in CCC, such individuals are considered enterprising, friendly, entrepreneurs that should be left alone to flourish.
Of course such upstanding individuals will declare income and pay taxes…