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.

YUM YUM YUM.

You know what’s even better? The Kogi Truck was scheduled to come at the same time, but took forever to show up (if they even did come) so the group of lunch-goers were split between ordering/eating the  food at Marked 5 and sitting in the heat for an invisible Korean BBQ truck. Actually, I even heard that the Kogi fans ordered and ate the Marked 5 burgers while still waiting in line for Kogi. Lame.

Sorry that the photo quality sucks so much. I only have a second generation iPod but feel free to send me a 3GS if it bothers you so much.

Is there any way we could book this truck to stop by the restaurant after our wedding party? Hmmm….