Royal Oak Restaurant Owners Honked Off About Food Trucks

The popularity of food trucks has sparked battles in some metro communities between the truck owners and restaurant owners.

Novi had its first food truck rally last week, Mt. Clemens plans to debut them Wednesday and the Royal Oak Farmers Market plans its 10th monthly rally called Motor City Street Eats, also for Wednesday.

At the Royal Oak City Commission meeting at 7:30 tonight, the bar Ye Olde Saloon hopes to win approval for inviting a batch of food trucks on a Saturday night, either Oct. 13 or Oct. 20, manager Donna Giles told Bill Laitner of the Free Press.

But those are times when the city's restaurants count on doing big business. The prospect of food trucks has owners up in arms, Giles said Friday.