Food trucks giving lifeline to food biz during pandemic

Restaurants have been hit hard this year by the pandemic, but food trucks have helped some work their way around the problem.

Kalia Marshall with Marshall Family Catering says the catering business started to dry up in March, but they had bought a food truck just a few months before, and she’s glad they did.

“Because we got a whole lot of call to kind of go into neighborhoods, at our church, and different places like that, and that really saved us,” she said.

Elsewhere, Shane Emerson already had a food truck for awhile for his candy business.

He just had to shift away from his usual venues like fairs, festivals, and schools.

“We transitioned,” he said. “We went to neighborhoods, daycares, assisted livings.”

He says his wife is a nurse, so he definitely sees the downside to Covid-19 everyday, but he says for him, business has been good in 2020.

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