{"id":14321,"date":"2019-05-22T12:13:37","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T04:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/?p=14321"},"modified":"2021-06-18T14:50:35","modified_gmt":"2021-06-18T06:50:35","slug":"struggling-food-trucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/2019\/05\/struggling-food-trucks\/","title":{"rendered":"Struggling Food Trucks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/337669888?dnt=1&#038;app_id=122963\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" frameborder=\"0\" title=\"Struggling Food Trucks\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Hong Kong food truck operators are struggling to survive<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Reporters: Charleen Chen, Lasley Lui, Regina Chen, Wayne&nbsp;Chang<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Editors: Tommy Yuen, Daphne Li<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tourism.gov.hk\/english\/foodtruck\/foodtruck.html\">Food Truck Pilot Scheme<\/a>, an initiative\nlaunched by the Tourism Commission in 2017, has recently been extended to 2021.\nCurrently, a total of 15 food trucks are operating at eight tourist spots,\nincluding Disneyland, Tsim Sha Tsui Art Square, Golden Bauhinia Square, Ocean\nPark, Science Park and Asia World-Expo. Four new venues such as Science Park\nand AsiaWorld-Expo were added to the list after the scheme was refined last\nyear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite the policy refinement, operators\nhave difficulty running food truck business in the city, and are gloomy about\nthe future. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr Liu, owner of Ma Ma\u2019s Dumplings, is\nfrustrated about his business. \u201cWe can barely survive. We don\u2019t operate our\nfood trucks in other spots.&nbsp; We get the\nchance to do business at Disneyland every four months, and we do our best to\nmake money there.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tourism.gov.hk\/resources\/english\/paperreport_doc\/legco\/2018-12-12\/LCQ21_Food_Truck_Pilot_Scheme_eng.pdf\">Commerce\nand Economic Development Bureau<\/a>, food trucks at Disneyland generated the\nhighest revenue accounting for 60 per cent of the total gross revenue of all\nfood trucks or HK$19.4 million up to mid-October 2018. The amount was 20 times\nmore than that at Wong Tai Sin Temple. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lam Sui-wa, chairman of the Hong Kong Food Truck Federation, finds food trucks in Hong Kong facing more restrictions than those in Germany. He urges the government to provide more supporting measures to boost food truck business. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lawmaker Tommy Cheung Yu-yan criticises the government for not doing anything for food trucks.\u00a0 He thinks food trucks should target local residents as their main source of customers, but not tourists.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Varsity speaks to operators and lawmaker to find out why the Food Truck Pilot Scheme is failing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14324,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,1780],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hong-kong-life","category-multimedia-may-2019"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14321"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14338,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14321\/revisions\/14338"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}