$1 Tacos Illegal in Riverside
The IE has its share of quirks, but here’s one that’s new to us: if you lease a restaurant space from the city, you’re not allowed to sell $1 tacos. D. Bernstein of the Press-Enterprise writes:
The woman behind the counter said sorry, but she wasn’t allowed to sell me just one taco. She pointed to the menu. The best she could offer was three tacos for $4.87. This, I later learned, may be an unwritten part of the city’s homeless policy. Riverside leases the space to Tony’s. “It’s not in the language of my lease,” said Lunch Box owner Teresa Andrawis, “but just to get in there I had to agree.”
Agree to what? “They don’t want dollar specials. They don’t want McDonald’s prices.” Higher prices — that three-taco minimum — supposedly discourage the “undesirables.”
Given that this publication is one of the leading proponents of $1 tacos, we must now qualify as undesirable to the City of Riverside. We hope they think long and hard about the implications of the official publication of the taco lifestyle avoiding their town…
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Metroblogging Los Angeles wrote:
Sweatin’ Bullet Points: 8/24/06…
• LA Taco takes issue with an unwritten Riverside ordinance against $1 tacos they read about in the Press Enterprise, where writer Dan Bernstein describes being denied one taco a la carte: “The best she could offer was three tacos……
Posted on 24-Aug-06 at 12:17 pm | Permalink
Bandini wrote:
I think it’s time to put Riverside on notice.
Posted on 24-Aug-06 at 7:09 pm | Permalink
Stephen Blackmoore wrote:
Another in a long list of reasons to hate Riverside.
Posted on 24-Aug-06 at 7:54 pm | Permalink
Taco » Corrections wrote:
[...] Our headline $1 Tacos Illegal in Riverside has raised the hackles of some in Riverside, noting that there are many establishments in the city of Riverside that do, in fact, offer $1 tacos. While technically they are not illegal, they are actively discouraged which is almost as bad. [...]
Posted on 29-Aug-06 at 10:33 am | Permalink