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With LA Now Dining ‘Alfresco,’ What Happens to Criminalized Street Food Vendors?

Last Friday, Los Angeles city mayor Eric Garcetti announced LA Alfresco, a new outdoor dining initiative meant to help restaurants increase their available footprint for diners while keeping the public out in the open air. The evening announcement came on the same day that county officials declared greater Los Angeles dining rooms, after months of lockdown due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, once again open for business.

So with restaurants able to seat customers, and diners encouraged to eat outside