Originally Posted by
genejockey
Back in 2016, A supporter of You Know Who said if they lost, there'd be taco trucks on every corner, and I often grieve for what we lost. That would have been AWESOME!!!!!!
The vast majority of the hotdog carts back then were owned by Greeks. They were often passed down the the children. The guy I worked for had a son who was about 12 at the time. Some ten years later, I stopped to get a pretzel at a cart. The son was working it and remembered me. The parents likely had moved back to Greece. The business was all cash with huge profit margins on many items being 100% or more. (That $0.70 hotdog probably cost less than $0.35 cents.) People (often the wives) would go back to Greece for a couple of weeks every summer and smuggle cash with them to deposit in Greek banks. When they had enough saved, the parents would retire back to the homeland.