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COVID-19 drives food trucks into the boonies

March 25, 2020

With non-essential businesses now shut down the typical customer for a food truck is nowhere to be found these days as U.S. citizens are urged to stay home and avoid public places thanks to the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak.

Home sequestering and social distancing are being urged by lawmakers and medical experts as a way to stem the expanding coronavirus infection level.

So, in Nashville, Tennessee, food trucks are taking their business to the residential neighborhoods where residents are hunkered down, according to a WSMV report.

Food truck owners Andre Bell and Derek Fulton are just one example of how food trucks are switching up the business model in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak. They are literally traveling far and wide to stay in business.

"We're trying to work with food delivery services, that way we can get food to people staying at home, trying to get the food to you by any means possible," Bell told the news outlet. "We go from Springfield, to Columbia, Mount Juliet, Murfreesboro, Old Hickory, Ashland City," said Fulton.

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