US Food Trucks & the Coronavirus
Posted on 03/14/2020 by Tammie Nolte, Big Fat Writer
The next steps towards containing the coronavirus could be closing restaurants, bars and other public places. Food trucks may be a way to distribute food around the city and cater for healthcare and other emergency services. Rules around the pandemic are changing daily in different cities. What are food trucks doing around the US?
Updated March 16:
The Center for Disease Control (CDC) announcement on March 15 recommended to limit groups and events larger than 50 people for the next 8 weeks. As a recommendation, the President released new guidelines on March 16 to avoid gatherings of more 10 people for a 15-day trial period.
To keep the serving windows open, food trucks have to quickly adapt and adjust to food service regulations and to keep customer contact to a minimum during the pandemic.In Europe, bars and restaurants have been shut down. But, in some countries, food and supermarket delivery is still allowed.
Food trucks could play a supportive service role during the pandemic. But which government body has the resources to make sure all food trucks are dealingwith public interactions responsibly?
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