And as i 711 owner i am very well familiar with the coffee business. This is a second time appearing in front of this board. And the first case i was an appellant, and this board at that point fully recognizes that food trucks in the financial district is detrimental to the existing establishments. First of all about coffee, i would like to tell the board by experience. Coffee is a very high margin item. All other products that any restaurant sells, has very high food costs, meats, cheeses, vegetables coffee in a lot of cases does contribute over all to the profitability to a small restaurant. Having said that, i will ask you once again to please consider what is right and what is wrong in realistic terms. As a decision may impact the lively hoods of some of my Restaurant Owners and we are all operating under the worst Economic Conditions known to us after the great depression. By over subsidizing food trucks, the city is attempting to can bolize the existing food establishments. That
Appears to be estimated by the applicant is about the type of food. The applicant sells coffee products espresso specifically. What we have looked at is the composition of the menus, among all of the businesses around in many cases, except for two, which is petes coffee and starbucks, those two companies through the majorty of the revenue through coffee products i dont think that is disputed in any case. In these other cases they do, many of the merchants sell coffee, but also sell other Food Products throughout the day. So, the evaluation from the Hearing Office determined that yes, while coffee is one product, it is not the majority of the specific and that is why they need to be deemed not like food. We did go back, based on the concerns to revalidate. As noted at the 84 Second Street location. If we take a Straight Line as the bird flies distance from the location of the proposed food truck, to the entrance of petes coffee, the distance varies between 219 feet to 244 feet. What tha
To just get a cup of coffee. There are a number of days that i did not have time to wait that line is too long. If you look around and you see a line of five or ten people at every business you are out of luck. To me adding one more machine two days a week and overlapping two hours a day, operating hours, if this were me, i would be very, i would feel very complimented that my just the notion of me doing business, anywhere near this area is such a threat. I cant understand how this is directed to the operator of a food truck, most of the concerns that have been addressed are to the pressures that are already there, than involve doing business. If one straw will break the camels back it seems that there are a lot of other things that are hampering the performance of that camel and maybe you should look at that and hopefully you will up hold the permit. Thank you. Thank you. Pe tricia veloy. I have been a part of many neighbors throughout the city. First of all something that you have no
Lets go to chuck bell in the Weather Forecast center. Off to a quiet start on a sunday morning. As you two were referencing, less wind to worry about for today. A much easier day to move around and get outside and enjoy sunshine in the remaining days before christmas. Its 32 freezing cold degrees at National Airport and best of all the wind is light out of the southwest at 3 Miles Per Hour, and there are some very cold spots out there in Northern Virginia, particularly. All in the upper teens and 20s, and so a little breeze left out there, not too much, but windchills are primarily in the mid to upper 20s. Storm team 4 radar shows not a lot going on close to us. Your planner for today is filled with sunshine. Sunny and pleasant day to be outside today. Temperatures running a couple degrees warmer than average here in the warmest december on record so far, but i promise you we have some cold air coming our way in the near future. We will talk about that and a possibility for Winter Weat
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