PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) – Monday was yet another scorcher, and while many folks went to seek out water or shade to cool down, others, including food truck owners, have to work in these high temperatures.
At BG’s Food Cartel, the Rose City Hibachi food cart fires up the grill, and the temperature inside climbs after cooking just one order.
“The roof right now is 107-108,” owner Victor Palacios said, holding a thermomotor.
If they are not careful, working in this heat can be dangerous.
“Last summer we had a day that was 98 I believe, so in here it was 108, 110, we closed early that day and I ended up going to the hospital for dehydration despite how much water I was drinking,” Palacios said.
This summer, he is not about to make that same mistake.
“We have a lot more Gatorades and liquid IVs because sometimes water just won’t do it,” Palacios said.
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Plus, they added a few things inside the cart to try and beat the heat.
“We got a fan blowing right here pointed at the cook, we have this fan right here trying to capture most of the air, we have an AC going that helps if you are standing under there then we got a fan in the back,” Palacios said.
A few food carts over, the guys at San Lucas Pizzeria said they are turning on their ovens so you don’t have to.
“Everyone who came in was like ‘we don’t want to heat up our homes.’ So, they came out and got a pizza from us,” owner Artruro Peralta said.
But they are also taking precautions to keep the temperatures in their truck bearable.
“We have a system of we only use one of the ovens if it’s too hot, and there are not a lot of people we just keep one oven on,” Peralta said.
While Rose City Hibachi and Lan Lucas Pizzeria turned up the heat, there were a few food trucks here at BG’s Food Cartel who stayed close. But the owner of the food cart park said as temperatures drop this week more carts will reopen.
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