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Food Trucking the Blues Away: Mobile Dining Innovator - Ishizawa Masayoshi

RISING · Season 6 · Episode 15
COVID-19 has hit restaurants hard. Faced with steady running costs despite low sales, some are turning to kitchen cars as a solution. Ishizawa Masayoshi runs a service uniting some 900 independent food truck operators. For a small commission, he matches them with unused patches at office buildings, switching up the selection to give local workers a constantly changing choice of exotic lunch options. As the pandemic runs on, coverage has also expanded to residential areas and medical facilities.

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Season
6
Episode
15
Air Date
23/Dec/2020
Air Time
Runtime
28 min

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COVID-19 has hit restaurants hard. Faced with steady running costs despite low sales, some are turning to kitchen cars as a solution. Ishizawa Masayoshi runs a service uniting some 900 independent food truck operators. For a small commission, he matches them with unused patches at office buildings, switching up the selection to give local workers a constantly changing choice of exotic lunch options. As the pandemic runs on, coverage has also expanded to residential areas and medical facilities.

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