Trying to start a food truck in Athens is like trying to cook in a stranger’s kitchen: You don’t know where anything is, and cooking a meal takes way longer than necessary.

Streets Café, owned and operated by Ryan Morgan, was one of the first food trucks to attempt to open in Athens. Morgan had worked in restaurants on and off all throughout his life and wasn’t quite ready to open an actual restaurant, so he thought a food truck would be a good option, because he could, theoretically, move it to where the people would be. But it wasn’t that simple.

Morgan got a good deal on a truck and hoped to have it up and running by the time his son was born. It took him three years finally to get running; his son will turn five this summer. “It didn’t cost as much as a restaurant, but it was much more difficult to do,” Morgan says.

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