Ahead of the Heat Wave, Portland Food Carts Are Forced to Get Creative - Eater Portland
"Han Ly Hwang, the owner of longstanding Korean cart Kim Jong Grillin, decided to close for most of the weekend, but to combat the lost revenue, he’s packing up boxes of grill-ready, marinated meats for customers to make Korean barbecue at home. Customers could pre-order kits to pick up on Saturday morning, and then he and his staff could leave the cart behind before the heat got too unbearable. For him, it was an obvious decision, one born out an innate scrappiness that comes from working in food carts for years. “I’m a food cart, I’m used to being broke, it’s fine,” he says. “I’m not new poor, I’m old poor. I know what I have to do. We’ve always been very scrappy when it comes to this fight... This happens to us every year with the heat: I have built up a little bit of credit, I have an emergency Capital One card, that’ll get me to the next day.”" - Brooke Jackson-Glidden
