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Food trucks tend to run cheaper as they cut down a lot of expenses in their operation compared to restaurants with dining areas, staff, drive thrus, etc.
On top of that, I have found a few random local places with rather decent prices. A pub in town, a chinese restaurant across town, and a diner. They took a while to find though and not all their items are cheap. I am also finding places are incorporating delivery apps into their operations to avoid paying out as much too through middlemen.
Not at all my experience; food trucks tend to be massively overpriced (and poor quality) in my area. I assume they expect to sell based on convenience and novelty. I guess it isn't working as there aren't very many around.
Damn that is unfortunate. Out of curiosity, what is the population density?
I am in a 50k city in a 300k county. Much smaller and selection plummets and quality and cost get highly variable.
When I lived in a larger city of 2 mil I found the prices to be reliably higher, with quality (sometimes) matching. But Portland OR sort of made a 'thing' about quality street food vs your average street vendor, so my experiences may already be skewed.
Just outside a major city in the southeast, so substantially higher. There's about 50k just in my suburb. Perhaps the food trucks here come from further in the city where prices generally are a bit higher?
I confess, I haven't been very thorough. I just tried a couple and wasn't impressed with the prices, so stopped bothering.