Fed-up restaurant worker flips street vendor’s food cart; businesses sue San Diego over vendors, some run by illegal aliens

A feud between restaurant owners and illegal street vendors in San Diego has boiled over to vandalism and a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against city officials.

Twelve businesses in the famed Gaslamp Quarter filed a lawsuit alleging that street vendors were allowed to run rampant and take customers away from brick-and-mortar restaurants. The lawsuit sought an order against city officials to enforce street vendor regulations as well as $12 million in damages.

Sitto says that his restaurant can be completely full and then totally empty out after the illegal street vendors move in.

The issue was highlighted by an incident in which a restaurant worker angrily turned over the food cart of a street vendor before getting into a vulgar yelling match with a bystander. The worker

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