Food truck entrepreneurs seek justice

One of the nation's top libertarian business-rights groups, the Institute for Justice, has targeted tacos in Sarasota.

Not just for some good eats, but to bring attention to what it says are some business-crippling regulations that threaten to crush food trucks across Sarasota County. Food trucks, for one, can't operate on any public street within Sarasota city limits. And to open up shop on private property in the city or Sarasota County, the trucks must be at least 800 feet from any brick-and-mortar restaurant. That's the length of nearly three football fields.

“Once we looked into Sarasota,” Institute for Justice Activism Coordinator Phil Applebaum tells Coffee Talk, “we realized they had some of the worst laws in the country.”