Forms of gathering on the street
#Food is social
Francistown, Botswana.
Main-road food vendors
Whether it be during a lunch break, between errands or at a traffic light, street vendors have access to customers, while the pedestrians and drivers have the convenience of shopping for food on their way; as a result of street vendors recognising a gap in the market particularly in the city, where the farmers typically would not have enough space to occupy. The street vendors buy from local farmers, and sell to the public with a mark-up small enough to remain more attractive than the grocery stores.
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Whether it be during a lunch break, between errands or at a traffic light, street vendors have access to customers, while the pedestrians and drivers have the convenience of shopping for food on their way; as a result of street vendors recognising a gap in the market particularly in the city, where the farmers typically would not have enough space to occupy. The street vendors buy from local farmers, and sell to the public with a mark-up small enough to remain more attractive than the grocery stores.
Image by: Artush/Getty Images
Jerk Taco
Starting with a single employee from his trunk at the 63rd street beach, a local entrepreneur has had locations under a tent on Adams and Pulaski, moved underground to an indoor space in my beauty shop on Wilcox and Pulaski, a converted, a less and that ideal situation on Cicero and Ohio, and a converted mechanic shop on Jackson and Pulaski to provide food in to the Westside and Southside communities. Jerk Taco Man is now on the Southside again on 77th in a converted mechanic shop that provides foods to nearby Southside neighborhoods and those that pass through exiting off of the Dan Ryan Expressway.
Image by: Jerk Taco Man Facebook Page