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Helping D.C. healthcare workers is focus of local food trucks

April 8, 2020

In an expanding trend across the county, food trucks are increasingly on the road to help healthcare and first responders helping those infected with COVID-19 get a good meal.

The latest example is happening in Washington, D.C. TwentyTables, which helps local residents find affordable food fare, Founder Alex Cohen has developed a unique program in which both healthcare workers and food trucks are benefiting, according to a GW Hatchet report.

The program, called Feed the Front Lines, pays food trucks to make meals for the healthcare workers and TwentyTables makes a donation for every dish bought from a participating food truck.

The effort is also gaining funding from a crowdsourcing campaign which so far has raised $11,000. The program uses $700 to pay a food truck to provide about 100 meals to a hospital's workforce and make a small profit from the assignment — which is helping food truck operators keep staff on during the pandemic.

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