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Annabel Turley: Christchurch Business Association Chair on the Arts Centre's food truck plans · Best of Business

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  Speaker 2: Now. I got a little battle brewing over food trucks
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  Speaker 2: in christ Church. The Arts Center wants to allow more
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  Speaker 2: than thirty food trucks to operate twelve hours a day,
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  Speaker 2: seven days a week. But that's upset the local hospo businesses.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like their lunch is getting cut. Central City
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  Speaker 2: Business Association chair Annabel Turlier is with me. Hey, Annabel,
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  Speaker 2: good morning. So the basic argument here is that if
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  Speaker 2: you're running a normal hospo business, you've got all the overheads,
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  Speaker 2: you've got the rent and the rates and all that
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  Speaker 2: kind of stuff, and these guys don't, and so it's unfair.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's part of the argument.
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  Speaker 2: What's the rest of the argument.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you know the Art Center, it's a hero sage
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  Speaker 3: and cultural site that starts as the university and they're
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  Speaker 3: trying to change it to drive through takeaways.
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  Speaker 2: Is it drive through or walkthrough walk through?
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  Speaker 3: What's the problem with that though, Well, it cheapens it.
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  Speaker 3: And like Richard people said, he's got some lands, does
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  Speaker 3: he just popped some caravans on it? And release it
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  Speaker 3: out to retail. What's the point. But we're going to
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  Speaker 3: be the best city in the world, and now this
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  Speaker 3: is like a step backwards looking saying, oh, we're still
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  Speaker 3: in recovery mode from the earthquake. Earthquake was over a
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  Speaker 3: decade ago.
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  Speaker 2: Do you think in terms of competition with the hospow
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  Speaker 2: business is the existing hospow businesses is it actually is
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  Speaker 2: there much competition or is it catering to a different crowd,
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  Speaker 2: Like You've got the people who just walking through want
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  Speaker 2: a really quick snack on the walk, and then there
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  Speaker 2: are other people who have the time to sit down
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  Speaker 2: and have a nice leisurely lunch, different crowds.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you look at Little High, which is sort of
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  Speaker 3: modeled off the more like food truck, lots of different
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  Speaker 3: options under one roof. That've only got eight eight at
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  Speaker 3: Little High. Little High is quiet like this. I would
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  Speaker 3: have thought, you know, they would have you know, eight
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  Speaker 3: like eight is probably fear for the art center to
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  Speaker 3: have not twty three.
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  Speaker 2: And part of the problem, obviously is the fact that
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  Speaker 2: this is twelve hours a day, seven days a week, right,
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  Speaker 2: would weekends be okay?
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  Speaker 3: Oh definitely, And the other part of the problem is actually,
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  Speaker 3: our businesses are subsidizing the Arts center. The Art Center
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  Speaker 3: gets is getting five and a half million dollars over
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  Speaker 3: the next ten years, and the rate differential for commercial
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  Speaker 3: compared to residential is a lot higher.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, So.
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  Speaker 3: There's a number of arguments here. It's not just about
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  Speaker 3: these young like these people with food trucks undercutting the
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  Speaker 3: established businesses. There's a number of issues. The Art Center
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  Speaker 3: spent a lot of money saying it was a heritage
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  Speaker 3: site and they need to save the Art Center, but
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  Speaker 3: now they're cheapen it with these caravans.
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  Speaker 2: Annabel, thank you for running us through. They really appreciate us.
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  Speaker 2: Annabel Turly, Central City Business Association chairperson.
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