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Speaker 1: Now I got a little battle brewing over food trucks

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Speaker 1: in christ Church. The Arts Center wants to allow more

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Speaker 1: than thirty food trucks to operate twelve hours a day,

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Speaker 1: seven days a week. But that's upset the local hospo businesses.

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Speaker 1: I feel like their lunch is getting cut. Central City

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Speaker 1: Business Association chair Annabel Turlier is with me.

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Speaker 2: Hey, Annabel, good morning.

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Speaker 1: So the basic argument here is that if you're running

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Speaker 1: a normal hospo business, you've got all the overheads, you've

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Speaker 1: got the rent and the rates and all that kind

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Speaker 1: of stuff, and these guys don't, and so it's unfair.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's part of the argument.

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Speaker 1: What's the rest of the argument.

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Speaker 2: Well, you know the Art Center, it's a heritage and

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Speaker 2: cultural site that starts as the university and they're trying

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Speaker 2: to change it to drive through takeaways.

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Speaker 1: Is it drive through or walk through walk through? What's

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Speaker 1: the problem with.

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Speaker 2: That though, Well, it cheapens it. And like Richard people said,

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Speaker 2: he's got some lands. Is he just popped some caravans

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Speaker 2: on it and lease it out to retail. What's the point.

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Speaker 2: But we're going to be the best city in the world,

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Speaker 2: and now this is like a step backwards looking saying, oh,

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Speaker 2: we're still in recovery most from the earthquake. Earthquake was

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Speaker 2: over a decade ago.

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Speaker 1: Do you think in terms of competition with the hospow

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Speaker 1: business is the existing hospow businesses is it actually is

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Speaker 1: there much competition or is it catering to a different

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Speaker 1: crowd Like you've got the people who just walking through

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Speaker 1: want a really quick snack on the walk, and then

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Speaker 1: there are other people who have the time to sit

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Speaker 1: down and have a nice leisurely lunch, different crowds.

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Speaker 2: Well, you look at Little High, which is sort of

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Speaker 2: modeled off the more like food truck, lots of different

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Speaker 2: options under one roof. I've only got eight eight at

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Speaker 2: Little High. Little High is quiet like this. I would

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Speaker 2: have thought, you know, they would have you know, eight

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Speaker 2: like eight is probably fear for the art center to have, yeah,

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Speaker 2: not twity three.

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Speaker 1: And part of the problem obviously is the fact that

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Speaker 1: this is twelve hours a day, seven days a week, right,

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Speaker 1: would weekends be okay?

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Speaker 2: Oh definitely. And the other part of the problem is

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Speaker 2: actually our businesses are substance. I seen the Arts Center.

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Speaker 2: The Art Center gets is getting five and a half

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Speaker 2: million dollars over the next ten years, and the rate

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Speaker 2: differential for commercial compared to residential is a lot higher.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, so there's a.

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Speaker 2: Number of arguments here. It's not just about these young

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Speaker 2: like these people with food trucks undercutting the established businesses.

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Speaker 2: There's a number of issues. The Art Center spent a

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Speaker 2: lot of money saying it was a heritage site and

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Speaker 2: they need to save the Art Center, but now they're

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Speaker 2: cheap in it with these caravans.

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Speaker 1: Annabel, thank you for running us through that. I really

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Speaker 1: appreciate us. Annabel Turly, Central City Business Association chairperson. For

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