Yup and sometimes you need barriers to entry to weed out people who would be a danger to themselves and others.

I have just started up in the mobile catering business here in the UK. Need a license that is dependant on yearly gas safety inspections, environmental health inspections, and food safety compliance. Also have to have £5 million public liability insurance. Exactly the same as years ago when I owned a pub. This time I also need various street trading licenses if I am trading in public areas, but those are just stealth taxes as they are only for areas were you will get huge footfall.

Would you want to get food from someone who didn't have to comply with all the above? Would you want them operating LPG appliances outside on your street? I wouldn't.

These barriers are easy to overcome for the serious minded, but make it harder for absolute cowboys who serve shit food in filthy conditions and make people sick, as well as the clueless idiots who are likely to cause a massive LPG explosion.

Yup and sometimes you need barriers to entry.

I have just started up in the mobile catering business here in the UK. Need a license that is dependant on yearly gas safety inspections, environmental health inspections, and food safety compliance. Also have to have £5 million public liability insurance. Exactly the same as years ago when I owned a pub. This time I also need various street trading licenses if I am trading in public areas, but those are just stealth taxes as they are only for areas were you will get huge footfall.

Would you want to get food from someone who didn't have to comply with all the above? I wouldn't.

These barriers are easy to overcome for the serious minded, but make it harder for absolute cowboys who serve shit food in filthy conditions and make people sick, as well as the clueless idiots who are likely to cause a massive LPG explosion.

Yup and sometime you need barriers to entry.

I have just started up in the mobile catering business here in the UK. Need a license that is dependant on yearly gas safety inspections, environmental health inspections, and food safety compliance. Also have to have £5 million public liability insurance. Exactly the same as years ago when I owned a pub. This time I also need various street trading licenses if I am trading in public areas, but those are just stealth taxes as they are only for areas were you will get huge footfall.

Would you want to get food from someone who didn't have to comply with all the above? I wouldn't.

These barriers are easy to overcome for the serious minded, but make it harder for absolute cowboys who serve shit food in filthy conditions and make people sick, as well as the clueless idiots who are likely to cause a massive LPG explosion.