The flavour on Vancouver Streets is about to expand

VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) - You may have noticed your selection when it comes to street vendors falls into two categories, hot dogs and chestnuts. The city is now moving ahead with a plan to increase the selection when it comes to food vendors.

City Councillor Heather Deal says they are making great progress. "Our engineering department, our food specialists and the health folks have been sitting down and talking and have come to the conclusion that we can do a lot more and it's time to start trying that this summer."

Deal wants to hear submissions for anything and everything, as long as it can be produced in a safe and healthy manner. "We've got lots of people expressing interest already. For instance there is someone who wants to do crepes, there is someone who wants to do baked potatoes, and there are some women that are doing a taco stand that are ready to go. We've had quite a few different ideas, so I think it will be quite interesting to see what people bring forth as proposals."

Further down the line the city wants to model Vancouver's street food industry on Portland's and it's possible that our city could one day see mobile kitchens as opposed to carts on the sidewalks.