The black and white does not decorate the scene; it roughens it. The food truck becomes a fluorescent wound in the night, a strip of light cutting through a street that offers no comfort.

The figures are half-lost, the blacks nearly blocked, the information damaged. That damage is useful. This is not a clean night scene; it is glare, hunger, waiting, pavement, and a small transaction under bad light.

Color would make it more specific. Black and white makes it harder, flatter, more brutal. Less food truck, more urban residue.