Food Trucks vs. The Establishment: Attorney Jeffrey Dermer on the Legalities …

“If freedom can’t win over something so innocuous and where the
benefits are so wide, then you can’t win at all,” says Jeffrey
Dermer, a lawyer and founder of the Southern California Mobile Food Vendor’s
Association, a group devoted to protecting the legal rights of
food truck operators.

Food trucks made news in California when a state assemblyman
pushed forward a law that would’ve
banned vendors from operating within 1,500 feet of a school.
Popular backlash killed that ban, but other cities around the state
are
still trying to clamp down on food trucks. 

Dermer talked with Reason.tv about SCMFVA’s suit against the
city of Monrovia, which has enacted a de facto food truck ban, as
well as the broader state of the food truck industry, which is
often attacked by interest groups representing traditional
brick-and-mortar restaurants, which claim that food trucks are
unfair competitors.

“I don’t think there’s anything unfair about it. The problem is,
your food isn’t good enough,” says Dermer.

Run time about 4 minutes.

Interview by Zach Weissmueller. Shot by Christopher Sharif
Matar. Edited by Weissmueller.

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