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33 Unique & Fun Food Truck Ideas + Tips For Choosing The Perfect Concept

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It remains difficult to fully staff a restaurant ; making food trucks can be the most logical concept to open in the current economy. Large cities like Portland, Los Angeles, and Austin are best known for their food trucks, but cities of all sizes are seeing more of these concepts pop up. 33 Food Truck Ideas.

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How Andolini’s Uses 7shifts To Help Schedule With Empathy: Case Study

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Mike Bausch and his brother Jim opened their first location, Andolini's Pizzeria , in 2005, and have since expanded the business to include multiple locations of Andolini's as well as other restaurant concepts including pizzerias, slice shops, food trucks, and fine dining restaurants.

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The Race to Feed Voters at the Polls

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They beelined for a food truck they had spotted earlier in the parking lot, hoping to buy a belated lunch. The food truck, Delicias Colombianas RR, was serving food as part of Chefs for the Polls , one of several initiatives that have sprung up this year with the mission of feeding people at the polls.

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City Hope Provides Food, Support, and Normalcy for the Under-Housed and Homeless in San Francisco’s Tenderloin

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City Hope was founded by Paul Trudeau in 2005 as a place for the Tenderloin’s under-housed and homeless to get together and share a meal and, more importantly, share the moment. His journey with Cheetah started when he first spotted (we’re so punny) a Cheetah truck driving down an SF street. Donate Food, Money, or Time to City Hope.

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The Great Birria Boom

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How two Mexican-American birrieros made the beloved dish a sensation in America In 2005, two Mexican-American teenagers from LA met at the fair in Coatzingo, Puebla, during Semana Santa, or Holy Week, a time when countless Mexican-American families head back to their family’s hometowns all over Mexico to visit relatives.

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Deck the Rice with Coca-Cola

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Armed guerillas, who controlled a vast territory during Colombia’s roughly 60 years of civil war that began in 1964, had halted Coke delivery trucks into the relatively peaceful town over several months. I only remember one visit when the bottles weren’t there. It felt like a sad, dry wave of temperance had swept over the place.

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The 38 All-Time Best Food Movies

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Movie images: Janus Films, MovieStillsDB, Walt Disney Studios/MovieStillsDB, New Line Cinema/MovieStillsDB, Getty Images What to add to your Netflix queue when you want to feel really hungry For just about as long as there have been movies, food has played a meaningful role in film. But what exactly constitutes a great food movie?

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