The monthly "Eat the Street" event in Kakaako has quadrupled in size over the past year.
"We started with 10 trucks, and two 10x10s, and one of them was Let Them Eat Cupcakes, which has since opened a brick and mortar, and now we have 41 vendors here today. And a long waiting list of so many people that deserve to be here as well, but we’ve just run out of space," said Eat the Street organizer Poni Askew.
"It’s awesome and you know what to be honest it’s a lot of new competition. But I say bring it on it. Makes me think more about what we’re doing and how we’re doing and I want to be above everybody else," said Harris Sukita of Simply Ono.
"Brick and mortar in Hawaii is so expensive couldn’t find any decent locations. So the next best thing was to do a mobile kitchen. It’s a catalyst to the next step," said Abraham Jazmin of Tiki Truck.
An "Eat the Street" event is being planned for Mililani in March and Kapolei in April.
Many of the vendors are hoping a bill to extend limits on how long they can be parked at a given location passes at the City Council.
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