Parking Wars: A Ballet

It’s been quite an adventure watching the battle between the restaurants along Miracle Mile and the delicious food trucks that come by during lunch. This month, the building across the street has been taking the lame road by paying their staff to hog all the parking spots along Wilshire so only a couple trucks (the ones who are there early enough) are able to set up for the lunch crowd.

A friend told me about this daily ritual and this morning, I got to work early to check it out and capture some stuff on my phone for the video above. Pretty crazy!

I have a feeling that these trucks are fine with the most of the spots being taken up by junk cars; having less space available for food trucks also means less competition for them, so they’re still able to make a good amount of money from the lunch hour.

And for those restaurants across the street? They should be more worried about The Counter opening up in August. I’m not a huge fan of their burgers but holy crap, their apple pie milkshakes are amazing. This also means milkshakes are now less than a block away from me, every Monday through Friday. Uggggh, I should stock up on muumuus in preparation for the calorie festival that’s going to happen in my life in the next couple of months.