For the downtown office worker lunchtime can often be a battle. Most companies have a strict hour lunch and workers are required to take lunch at 12-1 on the dot. This creates lines just to get onto the elevator to het out of the building. Then yet more lines in front of popular restaurants.
This creates a pretty unhappy lunch as you can spend over half of your precious hour waiting in lines.
But not to worry, the trusty bento truck the rescue. Well mostly they are vans, but you get the idea. Bento trucks are filled with tons of tasty Japanese lunch bento boxes. These bentos are great for grabbing some quick food and then you can pop back and eat at your deal or in a lounge or nearby park. They are also usually cheaper than restaurants with 500 yen a common price for a lunch with a main dish, side dish, rice, pickles and even sometimes an instant miso soup you can add hot water to. And you don't have to travel any further than the street in front of your office building.
After all the bentos are gone, the trucks pack up and head home. A great solution to the urban lunch problem.
Where do you usually eat lunch? A restaurant? At home? Cafeteria? In the cockpit of a giant Gundam robot?
