Kogi Taco Truck: The Howard Dean or Barack Obama of Street Food?
Photograph by Eric Shin from Flickr
From a Newsweek story on L.A.'s Kogi BBQ Taco Truck:
In many ways, Kogi's rapid rise reflects the same cultural moment that produced Barack Obama; youthful, urban, multiethnic, wired and communal, both brands resonate with a grassroots generation that distrusts top-down messaging and prefers to learn from peers, often online. The question now is whether L.A.'s Twitter-fueled Korean taco truck is merely a fad (more like, say, Howard Dean)—or, as the Kogi copycats are hoping, a model for the future of fast food.
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