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Food trucks and vendors welcome end of government shutdown

January 23, 2018

Food truck and cart owners were relieved when the federal government shutdown ended Monday evening, after some lost more than half of their usual customers on Monday, according to The Washington Times.

Will Salama, who operates a falafel food truck in front of the National Archives, reported losing around half his sales Monday.

Michael Habteselasse, who has parked his popcorn cart at the corner of Seventh and Maryland streets SW to serve workers at the 14 federal agencies near L'Enfant Plaza for the past 25 years, said he made about a third of his usual sales Monday because of the lack of workers.