The Experience at Average Joe’s Burgers

The backbone of America is the everyman on the frontlines that keeps a nation moving.

The annual Burgers and Beer festival is curated exclusively by food writers of the San Diego Readers Magazine. An event that assembles the very best burger vendors to allow the public to choose whom they deem worthy of the crown for being the best there is.

For its 5th annual event, they summoned fellow street vendor, now food truck Average Joe’s Burgers.

Whose existence was threatened three years prior with SB 946 (Safe Sidewalk Vending Act), which changed the way California regulates street vendors. The goal was to decriminalize sidewalk vending and encourage entrepreneurship — those who lease a building to operate a business. By restricting street vendors, you protect the publics right of way.

El Cajon and National City were some of the first cities in the county to adopt these regulations. Under SB 946, cities can implement regulations as they fit so long as the goal is to insure public health and safety.

But the restrictions extended to tourist-heavy areas Balboa Park, Mission Beach, La Jolla Shores and key areas in Downtown such as the Gaslamp District, and surrounding areas of Petco Park and the convention center, specifically…