Los Angeles Vegan Food Trucks That Need Your Support Now

Three POC-owned food trucks that are offering safe pickup and need help now to stay open through the COVID-19 pandemic

Dani Marzouca
Published in
5 min readApr 17, 2020

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Photo: Karen Zeng via Unsplash

Angelinos have long relied on food trucks for on-the-go meals. If you Google searched “the history of food trucks in Los Angeles” you would learn the history of Roy Choi’s Kogi food truck business launched in 2006, but Latinos have been operating taco trucks in Los Angeles for many decades. The ingenuity of the business goes without saying; you can transport your business wherever the demand is — concerts, movie sets, baseball games, last call at the bars.

The food truck economy in Los Angeles has become slowly veganized, long before Burger King started offering the Impossible Whopper. That Whopper has nothing on what these POC-owned vegan food truck businesses offer. They need our support now more than ever and are making it easy to stay well-fed during safer-at-home orders.

Cena Vegan

Photo: Cena Vegan

There is no world in which this list doesn’t begin with Cena Vegan. The business is majority-owned by Latinos, so you…

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