I was renting a small kiosk at a food truck park, the owner told me that I didn’t needed any permits other than comercial certificate because my kiosk was more like a “pop-up store”. Due to this being my first business I did just that, but as time went by the other food trucks stated that everyone needed their permits and that’s when we all found out that not everyone was able to get their permits out because the park permits only allowed 5 food trucks, we were 8 and the owner was actively looking for another food truck to add. So the permit department told us we needed to shut down operations or we were gonna get billed, that the owner needed to fix the permits of the park so we could get our papers and be able operate, something that he already said he won’t do, and even suggested for us to change out working hours to hours were the permit officers don’t work, so work only at night and illegally, to take the risk of being caught.
So 2 of us closed, that includes me. Now I’m out of a job, I’m doing DoorDash, the bills keep getting worse, I have no more capital. Everything is expensive, I’ve sent so many emails to rent out a kiosk or a food truck and no one ever gets back to me, they ignore my calls, my emails.
I feel like all the passion and love I had for my business has been taken away in a blink of an eye because I didn’t knew any better and because I trusted someone who didn’t care about me or my business.
I don’t wanna give up, I had so many good clients but at this point I feel like I’m at a dead end.
EDIT:
I had the permit to sell and manage food, but I couldn't get the permit to "operate" in that location because the permit of the park only allowed 5 business there for when me and the others tried to get their papers the system said something like "this place is full, these other business are not allowed to be here" So we couldn't get the papers on that location, unless the owner updates the park permit and put "there is space for 8 food trucks/business" but he didn't wanted to do it because it expensive for him. Also, me and another truck had to shut down because of it.
So 2 of us closed, that includes me. Now I’m out of a job, I’m doing DoorDash, the bills keep getting worse, I have no more capital. Everything is expensive, I’ve sent so many emails to rent out a kiosk or a food truck and no one ever gets back to me, they ignore my calls, my emails.
I feel like all the passion and love I had for my business has been taken away in a blink of an eye because I didn’t knew any better and because I trusted someone who didn’t care about me or my business.
I don’t wanna give up, I had so many good clients but at this point I feel like I’m at a dead end.
EDIT:
I had the permit to sell and manage food, but I couldn't get the permit to "operate" in that location because the permit of the park only allowed 5 business there for when me and the others tried to get their papers the system said something like "this place is full, these other business are not allowed to be here" So we couldn't get the papers on that location, unless the owner updates the park permit and put "there is space for 8 food trucks/business" but he didn't wanted to do it because it expensive for him. Also, me and another truck had to shut down because of it.
