SAN LUIS OBISPO - Its lunchtime in San Luis Obispo and Porter's Gourmet-on-the-Go lunch truck is catering to a hungry crowd
"This has been a dream of mine actually for quite some time now", says truck owner Duncan Palmer, "I left the city and came back and decided it was time to do it, there weren't too many going around SLO."
Keeping Gourmet on the go isn't coming cheap these days.
"Its about a buck a mile in this thing", Palmer says about his lunch truck, "it runs on diesel right but hopefully in the next six months here I'm going to switch over to bio-diesel."
Palmer says it costs him about $100 to fill up the mobile restaurant which he does about twice a week.
"I'm paying more money for fuel, I'm kind of limiting myself, I'm kind of staying in the city more", Palmer says, "I don't let that dictate where I'm going or what I'm doing but its definitely an issue."
So far Palmer say's he's resisted raising his prices to cover his higher fuel costs but that could change if gas prices hit five dollars a gallon or more.
"I haven't thought about that, and I hope it doesn't get up that high", Palmer says, "it definitely affects me and my bottom line and what I'm trying to do here."
"That's why I'd like to go to the veggie oil", Palmer adds, "I have a fryer in there I can just run off my own oil."
