To survive in D.C., he eats thousands in fines to hawk $8 chicken.
The D.C. gourmet food truck scene — those heady days when a downtown park turned into a posh food bazaar offering lobster rolls, borscht, truffle mac n’ cheese and hazelnut flautas — is over.But over at the National Mall, the DC Chicken House truck is surrounded by hungry teens doing the museum thing as tourism remains the North Star of a pandemic rebound that has seen only half the workforce breathe life back into downtown.
It’s the same for all of them. Every few days, you’ll see a whole row of colorful trucks — the ice cream and boba fleet, the Philly cheesesteak guys, gyros, taco trucks — all immobilized with those dreadful, orange boots on the wheels.on his food truck — that means driving in from Loudoun County, Va., by 6 a.m. to swap his truck with the junk car he left to hold the primo space right outside a museum overnight.He grew up working in restaurants in Egypt and then in the United States.
now that so many folks are working from home. D.C. is talking about transforming some of that office space into residential buildings to reshape and survive.
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