Denver business owner struggling after city bans food trucks downtown: ‘We had zero say’

The city of Denver is making an attempt to beat increasing criminal offense by banning the procedure of meals trucks in downtown places.

Proprietor of RJ’s Tacowich Food Truck Leilani Johnson joined “Fox & Good friends 1st” Friday to discuss the modern transfer, which forced her to shift her small business and has harm her financially.   

Taking away the food items vehicles from the city blocks could turn out to be long lasting, as metropolis officers are seeking to reduce crowds and avert crimes, Denver police instructed Fox Information Digital.

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“It feels horrible. And as a new enterprise, a woman in business enterprise, it truly is just hard. It is really already tricky. And now we’re creating it even more challenging,” Leilani Johnson,  told ABC Denver. 

“We did 50 % of our regular profits on a Saturday evening. … There are improved means to clear up this trouble that [don’t] involve hurting the small firms who are trying to execute a company for our group users.”

Johnson explained to Carley Shimkus that meals vans have been given very little to no observe and are now struggling to determine out exactly where to work their businesses. 

“I consider that is the largest concern for us food items truck proprietors appropriate now is that we just experienced zero say. They just type of threw it at us and said deal with it basically, and have not offered us an alternate alternative or a new area or someplace else to be.”

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Officers think the action will minimize down on huge crowds of intoxicated folks who go to the meals trucks following bars near in the early early morning several hours. Johnson explained she has not expert all those problems and doesn’t feel the go will reduce criminal offense. 

“I’ve by no means felt threatened or unsafe operating downtown with my feminine co-employee. We run shifts til 2-3:00 in the early morning,” claimed Johnson, who left her instructing position a yr back to open her food items truck.

Fox News’ Emma Colton contributed to this report