Restaurant owners allegedly give food trucks the boot

Well there's a lunch option I didn't figure would be going away: Say goodbye to the Occidental Park food trucks. I heard about this change in an office rumor yesterday, and heard it again today from a totally different person. So this afternoon, I went to a reliable source and got confirmation. As of June 1, there will be no more food trucks in Occidental Park.

Local restaurants and the Pioneer Square Alliance felt that the trucks were taking away their business. As a compromise several months ago, the Occidental "pod" shrunk from the four trucks down to two. The restaurants still complained. The trucks' five year run is over, simple as that.

You might still find the Mangia Me food truck a block north, and the People's Burger truck way down south by Century Link Field, but that's about it.

Another source close to the trucks wrote to me: "We've always loved serving the folks of Pioneer Square, and the addition of the food trucks not only gave some extra character to the area, but also helped revitalize the park years before Weyerhaeuser broke ground. It's sad we were ultimately killed by our own success."

But we'll have Domino's.