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Accessible Food Truck

While ADAPT activists in Austin are protesting food trucks for lack of access, wheelchair-using entrepreneur and chef Aleem Syed owns and operates a fully accessible food truck in Toronto. “I didn’t understand how I could make it work,” confessed the halal chef to Global News in December. But then French chef Pascal Ribreau, who is also a paraplegic, showed Syed his own accessible kitchen.

Soon Syed was working with designer Kashif Tejani and in less than a year The Holy Grill was ready to hit the road. “It was definitely quite challenging,” said Tejani, about getting accessibility features such as a custom ramp into a vehicle that has to hold an industrial kitchen.

Syed plans to bring his truck to the United States so he can be closer to a Project Walk facility.

Read more at globalnews.ca/news/2023403/chef-breaks-barrierswith-custom-wheelchair-accessiblefood-truck.

Fun With Post-Its

See all that blue? Thanks to the Brazilian pranksters Canal Boom, this illegally parked driver’s entire car is covered in Post-It notes. That’s going to take a while to clean off. See the viral video at tinyurl.com/qa8a9bk

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