[reaperducer]

Slightly related, but a downtown restaurant can't have it's kitchen in the outskirts.

But the opposite can be true.

There was an article posted on HN in the last six months or so about "virtual restaurants" where established restaurants drive a van or drop a shipping container into a parking lot after hours and set up shop exclusively for delivery purposes in urban areas. The restaurants that actually bother to be part of the neighborhood were pissed about it.

[organsnyder]

Seems pretty similar to food trucks (other than the delivery part).

[A2017U1]

> actually bother to be part of the neighborhood

I'm guessing this solely means paying rent?

[NullPrefix]

Property taxes too.

[A2017U1]

Is higher demand and subsequent ballooning commercial rents a net positive for communities?

I'd argue not at all.

It's only a benefit to a very small number of people who have zero requirement to be local residents.

Food vans are contributing far more to communities through their efficiencies.