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In the Push to ‘Save Restaurants,’ LA’s Food Trucks Are Often Overlooked | Eater LA

"Run by Anthony Suggs, Antidote Eats has become a precarious but hopeful example of a pandemic-era food truck: Suggs, a Black Long Beach native whose past includes a marijuana-related prison stint and couch-surfing to save for his rig, says the business has been thrust into the larger cultural moment amid Black Lives Matter and the pandemic. I observed the truck pull up a few times a week — recently at an outdoor Dodgers screening at LA Ale Works in Hawthorne — and heard how an LA Times story produced two-hour lines for days while events with Michael B. Jordan gave it additional visibility; still, Suggs recounts brutal slow days (once making about $25 in four hours in Hollywood), daily fear of police, and the emotional weight of working the truck with his girlfriend and her mother, who is being treated for cancer. The truck leans on social media (nearly 15,000 Instagram followers) and occasional catering gigs to cobble together income, but Suggs emphasizes the grind and the slim margin between survival and losing everything he’s rebuilt." - Farley Elliott