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"I saw the teal-painted CaliBurger DC truck routinely serving West Coast–style burgers and fries on weekends at the outdoor Wunder Garten in NoMa until dine-in restrictions emptied that beer garden and devastated the truck's business. Uprooted from its anchor location, the truck tried parking a short walk away on First Street NE but saw sales collapse to about $400 a day over a nine-hour period—an 80 percent drop from a typical weekend—leaving owner Vic Aulakh with barely enough to pay labor and nothing to cover other costs as he desperately researches new neighborhoods to feed people on the street." - Tierney Plumb