The scrappiness of Portland’s food carts made them leaders during the pandemic (via eaterpdx)
because of the increased demand. “The carts that are open and able to keep functioning, they’re seeing people come in. But the tradeoff is the excessive cost increase to run their businesses,” she says. “They’re just in constant flux, just trying to accommodate the demand with micro-margins.”
, and think about what he wanted to do next. He noticed certain ingredients were starting to disappear, and he decided to switch up his business model — instead of offering a standard menu with a few specials, he’d just do menus of one-offs: smoked pork chops, breakfast burritos. “I’m trying to do as much fun stuff as I can right now,” he says. “Every week it’s going to be something different, and that’s a way to keep people excited.
Saxena says that some days, at the Prost Marketplace food pod, it feels like any other year. “On the weekends, there are definitely moments of ‘What pandemic?,’” he says. “’The pod can be insanely busy, and our sales are comparable to last year.”
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