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Hispanic group wants Salt Lake to revisit cart law

Here's an idea: If you are going to open up a business in a foreign country, you should learn the language and customs of that country. The council did nothing wrong, they simply implemented some common-sense measures the most people would just assume would already be happening.

It's ludicrous to imply that it's discriminatory to demand that they follow the same basic hygiene and courtesy customs expected of everybody else.

There are plenty of examples of Chinese/Thai and other restaurants being shut down by the Health department because they didn't follow the health codes. Was that discriminatory/racist as well?

If they want to run a cart with looser health standard, perhaps they should go find a 3rd world country to do so.

I am getting pretty sick of primarily Hispanic groups who try to turn everything into a racial issue. Perhaps it's just meant to be a distraction to disguise the fact that some of these vendors or their clients are here illegally.

One of the requirements of the new city ordinance that I heard about was the need for restroom facilities. If true, this is pretty unbelievable. I guess Hogle Zoo better stop its vendors from selling food along with any children's lemonade stand. There is no reasonable expectation that buying food from a vendor requires easy access to a restroom, this is not considered a sit down meal, this is fast food on the go. If you can't hold it, then don't buy it. Wait.

The restroom agreements are for the EMPLOYEES, not the customers. The SLC ordinance is in line with the requirements of other locales in the county ( I know because I had to jump through the same hoops to open a sno-shack). Playing the race card on this issue is detrimental to the hispanic community, and frankly irresponsible!

i think this is a well thought out ordinance. have you ever been to Mexico and smelled that rotting food around these carts. They do need to clean up and provide bathroom facilities for their employees. and as for background checks, I feel that anybody that goes into business should have a background check. It might go along way in protecting the unsuspecting people that patronize these places.

I don't see where the racism card can be played. I mean the rules would be the same for me if I wanted to open up a hot dog cart and I'm as white as the snow in your driveway. This seems to be more of the "Poor, poor me. All I want is a good job so I can send the money out of the country to my familia in Mexico and the anglos are keeping me down...". But if we are making these people abide by the laws of the city, why not the laws of immigration as well?

Oh no! Mexican's can't import their 'anything goes' regulatory environment to the U.S?!? I've visited over 20 Mexican states, loved them all, but under no circumstances would wish for their public standards here in the U.S.

Instead of being racists (i.e. expecting Mexicans to abide by the same laws as everyone else), why don't we enact a law creating personal free trade zones around the 1 of 9 Mexican citizens who currently reside in the U.S. They could be a law unto themselves, at all times, everywhere and operate unpermitted businesses to their hearts' content.

If lady justice were truly blind, she'd hold all U.S. citizens to the same standard (whether they sell tacos, hot-dogs, or knishes), and deport everyone else.