Food at D2 Stadiums

[Mulerider]

I think Arkadelphia actually has a law against food trucks. Might be the dumbest thing I have ever heard of the town doing.

Wow... I wonder who made that decision.

[Divisiontwo]

Wow... I wonder who made that decision.

I'm fairly certain they have a food truck event downtown, don't they? I could've sworn they did. And i know they've had food "trailers" in the past. Well, I take that back. It was always set up in Caddo Valley.

[Predatory Primates]

I think it's all about revenue for school's. School's often let other sports teams run the concession stands to make money for the student workers or raise money for the team.

Depends on how much a vendor is willing to pony up I imagine.

[Mulerider]

Depends on how much a vendor is willing to pony up I imagine.

That's the thing. You would be surprised how little food trucks make.

[OBUGrad]

I'm fairly certain they have a food truck event downtown, don't they? I could've sworn they did. And i know they've had food "trailers" in the past. Well, I take that back. It was always set up in Caddo Valley.

[JakeTAMUC]

Here in Commerce they have smoked brisket tacos. Oh, and beer.

[MilSF]

OBU at least has their burgers and brawts grilled on site. You but at concession stand, but go and get them off the grill.

The food truck thing has gone back and forth a couple of times. I thought the latest was that there was going to be a food truck court somewhere in town, but I'm not sure. The arguments against them have been a mixture of protectionism and safety. It's hard to make sure that the food trucks are following food and health regulations as I'm pretty sure we only have a part-time inspector. Our brick and mortar restaurants barely scrape by for the most part. They have lobbied against food trucks that aren't paying rent to local landlords, might not be licensed or get inspected, etc. Bigger towns might have more established trucks where those aren't issues, but we're talking about Arkadelphia. The only trucks that are going to be here would be fly-by-night at best.

[Mulerider]

OBU at least has their burgers and brawts grilled on site. You but at concession stand, but go and get them off the grill.

The food truck thing has gone back and forth a couple of times. I thought the latest was that there was going to be a food truck court somewhere in town, but I'm not sure. The arguments against them have been a mixture of protectionism and safety. It's hard to make sure that the food trucks are following food and health regulations as I'm pretty sure we only have a part-time inspector. Our brick and mortar restaurants barely scrape by for the most part. They have lobbied against food trucks that aren't paying rent to local landlords, might not be licensed or get inspected, etc. Bigger towns might have more established trucks where those aren't issues, but we're talking about Arkadelphia. The only trucks that are going to be here would be fly-by-night at best.

Yeah, it's just crazy to me that there isn't more people/industry in Arkadelphia. You have two schools, a lake, a decent size town as far as area goes. You are surrounded by farming, and you only have about 10,650. Magnolia has less to do, and they have 11,467. Arkadelphia is a town I wouldn't mind calling home, if my wife allowed me to live there. Conway will be just fine for now.

[MilSF]

Yeah, it's just crazy to me that there isn't more people/industry in Arkadelphia. You have two schools, a lake, a decent size town as far as area goes. You are surrounded by farming, and you only have about 10,650. Magnolia has less to do, and they have 11,467. Arkadelphia is a town I wouldn't mind calling home, if my wife allowed me to live there. Conway will be just fine for now.

Classic chicken and egg. We've had roughly the same population for about the past 40 yrs. The "major" employers are relatively small and stable with no big growth. The colleges are a zero-sum game. Kids come, then leave after 4 yrs. We don't have enough other, older qualified people for companies that hire recent grads to move here or anything. We have lots of faculty, but again, new ones only come when old ones leave. There is a large mechanical-process paper mill (no oder) coming in the next few years, but they will only employ a couple hundred at most.

[Mulerider]

Classic chicken and egg. We've had roughly the same population for about the past 40 yrs. The "major" employers are relatively small and stable with no big growth. The colleges are a zero-sum game. Kids come, then leave after 4 yrs. We don't have enough other, older qualified people for companies that hire recent grads to move here or anything. We have lots of faculty, but again, new ones only come when old ones leave. There is a large mechanical-process paper mill (no oder) coming in the next few years, but they will only employ a couple hundred at most.

Right. The Paper Mill actually will a huge deal though. Should employ some Engineers and Forestry majors. Even though it's not college jobs, it will have a good amount of truckers and other skilled people to work in the plant. Pulp would is becoming a big thing for South Arkansas if prices stay up.