I salute you, restaurant owner. I really don't know why the mayor wants to stifle competition downtown.

Prohibition is the tool of a lazy regulator.

Well said.

One of my favorite food trucks in DC, DC Empanadas, has a photo on their facebook page of Jose Andres stopping by the truck for their food. It was parked near his restaurant, Cafe Atlantico. The market is there, get competitive.

Now I want to know who the restaurant owner is just so I can patronize him/her!

That's the attitude we need! I've said this before, but if food trucks are taking business away from restaurants, its because the trucks are serving what the consumer wants to eat, while the restaurant probably is not.

A question for the restaurant owner: if you hate the phrase "brick-and-mortar" so much, what would you suggest we use instead?

please, anyone who has an alternative to "brick-and-mortar," let me know. I've been using it, too, reluctantly, but I can't think of how else to say it.

How about just "restaurant". I think people know that restaurants are in buildings.

worth a try!

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I think it was a Loyola billboard that said "Conveniently located in the real world", teasing online faux colleges. These are restaurants, the others...trucks.

well put,bravo! who is stealing my thoughts?

"Stationary establishment"? Poignant and no hyphens required.

like Downs that used to be on Charles Street? jk

Downs was a stationery establishment (as well as stationary). An outpost still exists in Ruxton.

What stationery store had the delivery truck with the giant fox head on top? Was it actually called Fox Stationery? For some reason I want to say it was Dawn, but I've killed too many brain cells since then.

Class?

Hal, I don't know of anyone with a fox's head on a truck, but Dawn's Office Supply has long been known for having a German shepherd's head on their trucks. (Dawn was the founder's seeing-eye dog.)

hmpstd, this begs for amplification. A stationery store was founded by a blind person???

Thanks, hmpstd! That's what I was thinking of.

Dahlink, that's right -- the back story on Dawn's founder is set forth on their website, a link to which was included in my prior post. In this era of big-box retailers like Office Depot and Staples, it's good that Dawn's is still hanging in there, long after the likes of Lucas Brothers have disappeared.

Dawn's also had a giant pencil hanging off the front of their building storefront on Charles Street (just south of Jimmy Wu's). The pencil is long gone, but I just saw one of their delivery vans yesterday and am happy to say that the dog head remains!