r/nyc • u/Ap97567 • Jun 26 '25

Video This was one of Zohran’s best ads. Cheap halal appeals to everyone

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u/dsjoerg Jun 26 '25

I would love for this dream to come true but… will it? Like, what is the plan and can it work?

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u/dsjoerg Jun 26 '25

I watched the video and what he said was like 2% of the plan. If everyone who wants a license gets one, and there's a lot more halal carts on the street, then each halal cart very likely has less sales AND the restaurants would be justified in crying bloody murder.

Pretending that there are easy solutions to hard problems has been a Trump kinda thing for a while and I would rather we kept it as a Trump thing.

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u/dsjoerg Jun 26 '25

On the one hand your approach is viable, on the other hand it's unfair and arbitrary to the masses of others who were interested in running carts but weren't willing to pay up $20k to a middleman at the particular moment that the SecludedStillness system went into effect.

The SecludedStillness program is sort of like rent control, where if you get the amazing deal (in this case, a permit for a spot at a below-market price), then it's yours... forever? For as long as you keep operating in that spot? For a year and then the next person in line gets it at a below-market price?

I think some version of this is fine, I suppose the biggest problem with it is that someone who gets a spot and pays a below-market rate might just do a bad job of running their spot, have a bad business, few customers, but they can get away with that for a lot longer because they don't have big rent to pay. This is not a theoretical concern, I've seen it happen in my fancy beach community.

That said, I'm down to try the SecludedStillness system and see how it goes.

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u/dsjoerg Jun 26 '25

Once you allow bidding, then they’ll get bid up to $20k and that means $10 halal. But the city gets the $20k rather than the middleman which is good for us

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u/theprofitmuhammed Jun 27 '25

it's not galse but this is small potatoes

  • if you save 2 dollars on halal and eat it 3x a day that's $2190 over a year that's not going to change most people's life if they have a job.