Online petition started to lift the ban on Ridgefield's Only the Hungry food truck

Mary Shepheard, the daughter of Mark McManus, who owns and operates "Only the Hungry" food truck, has posted a petition on Change.org asking that Ridgefield Board of Selectmen lift the ban on Only the Hungry food truck. Read our story: Ridgefield Board of Selectmen approve temporary moratorium on food trucks here. 

At the time of this post, the petition had received 91 signatures.

Here is an excerpt from the petition:

My name is Mary Shepheard. My father, Mark McManus, owns a food truck in Ridgefield, Connecticut, called Only the Hungry. It was his dream to “semiretire” and own the kind of food truck that is all the rage in places like New York and Los Angeles, serving a wide array of delicious food, from standbys like burgers and fries to more exotic fare, like lobster mac and cheese. He thought Ridgefield would be the perfect spot for such an establishment, and, after spending much of his life savings—about $53,000—on buying and refurbishing a truck, he purchased his vendor permit and secured permission from a local business owner to park his food truck in their parking lot. It looked like my father’s dream was coming true.

Then, after my father had been in business for only a few weeks, the town’s Board of Selectmen decided to retroactively deny him the right to sell food from that location.

Please help my father get back to work serving good food to the people of Ridgefield. Sign our petition today and tell the Ridgefield Board of Selectmen how you feel.

Read the petition in its entirety here.