You’d think that having 1000s of hungry people in one place would allow the to drop the price a bit

That's the sound of market demand going up, baby!

TBF food trucks are insanely expensive (like, $80K+ expensive) so I don't really blame owners for charging whatever people will pay. I'm just amazed people pay that much.

for some reason.

Because useful idiots are proud to pay for it then complain they don't have enough money.

Yeah classic food truck venue here is an event at a brewery where they're legally required to serve food. So you buy tickets and then provide to the vendors, but if you work out the prices it ends up being insane with super small quantities. They always have to make the food weird too, sometimes it's cool but sometimes you just want normal shitfood.

I wanna do one where it's like simple lowbrow stoner food done just a little fancy. Like grilled PB&J, but the peanut butter is the good stuff and the jam has the full berries in it, sourdough bread that can really take a heavy fry in some salted butter. The kind of stuff that's dirt simple to make but really shines with a bit of extra love.