With the market price at $4/dog, and apparently high-demand areas chronically un-served almost everywhere you look, the Seattle hot-dog market seems, at first-glance, ripe for the picking. But for those would-be hot dog entrepreneurs among us: Why Seattle Doesn't Have More Street Food

Seattle is a shitty town for street food. Citywide, a mere 18 vendors offer hot dogs, popcorn, and espresso from open-air carts ... aspiring street vendors have attempted to set up shop ... find themselves hurdling through an obstacle course of often-perplexing regulations for the right to occupy a five-by-eight-foot space on the sidewalk.

Other cities have it worse.