Game over: food carts adjust to worker-lite cities

A kebab cart in Manhattan The New York Times

Julie Creswell and Coral Murphy Marcos

Jul 21, 2021 – 3.53pm

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New York| At around 11:30am on a muggy July Wednesday in midtown Manhattan, the line for Uncle Gussy’s food truck started to form.

As the truck served warm gyros and fragrant chicken platters to the customers who wandered out of the sleek office towers nearby, Nicko Karagiorgos, the food cart’s gregarious co-owner, greeted his regulars. How are the kids? Did your friends like the food last time?