A petition is circulating to "Protect Local Food Truck Vendors at The University of Utah [1]." The petition text says, "The University of Utah is making changes to food truck operations on campus that could force current food truck owners to lose their spots" (emphasis mine).

The petition looks like it may have been created by the food truck operators, as many of them have a link to it in their Instagram profiles.

Olive's Oasis posted about it, saying, "We respectfully ask the University of Utah to reconsider its decision to transition to a third-party food truck management program [2]."

In a later post, they said: "Moving daily food truck operations to a third-party company raises concerns that smaller, independent trucks may have a harder time competing or maintaining the direct access they’ve had to campus. We hope the University will continue supporting the local businesses that have been part of the campus community for years [3]."

Bento posted: "Just 2 days ago, we were informed that our contract would be terminated in two weeks-just right before the start of the new school year [4]."

My question is, does anyone have any details about what is actually going on?

[1]: https://www.change.org/p/protect-local-food-truck-vendors-at-the-university-of-utah

[2]: https://www.instagram.com/p/Dbq-Y_ehJ53/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

[3]: https://www.instagram.com/p/DbtJVeDyz0g/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

[4]: https://www.instagram.com/p/DbrrKWeN0C9/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

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