Customers of street food seem to be distributed almost equally between white-collar workers, market traders, labourers and students, with some variations from city to city. This wide popularity of street food arises which from many factors eating street food avoids wastage in theform of left-over, home cooked meals; it takes care of rising cost of cooking fuel or the difficulty and labour in obtaining it; and it saves times for working women. Much of the food purchased in taken home to street food availability also reduces the drudgery of women as they don't have to prepare food early in the morning or late at night for family members who have long working or school days. Time saved in preparing food was found to be used productively in the care of children and other important responsibilities. It is quite incredible that in spite of mounting evidence that street vendors make a city more liveable, provide nutritrous food to a very larege section of the population and provide employment to millions, decision makers in all our cities are constantly trying to find excuses to harass them. The demand for removing hawkers from the streets almost never originates from regular pedestrains or bicyclists. It is the car-owning policy makers, who do not patronize the hawkers, who find them aneyesore. More pedestrian and public space is occupied by parked cars than hawkers in our cities. Other reasons why cities need vendors on streets and not designated food courts is because hawkers are the eyesof the street and prevent violent crime. Our city roads are safer because of them. Students also show that designated food courts attract richer clients and the hawkers lose their business to more organized and affluent it is time. There was a deficit of food and there was also shortage of cloth.
