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For a retro experience, visit Continental Seafood Restaurant in Richmond, one of few establishments that still offers the old-school pushcart service.
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Vivian Chung, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 May 2022
Adding categories of mobile food establishments to separate pushcart vendors, food trucks that use an outside cooking area — such as a BBQ pit or pizza oven — and food trucks where all the cooking is done inside.
—Dallas News, 27 Apr. 2022
Sidewalk vendors and pushcart operators must pay $38 annually for a permit to sell their wares in San Diego.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Dec. 2022
Adam Wong, the executive chef, and CK Poon, the general manager, come in with a pushcart near the end of the meal.
—Maggie Hiufu Wong, CNN, 17 Oct. 2022
Hot Dogs opened as a pushcart on La Brea before the war, in 1939, and put up permanent walls in 1946.
—Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2022
The story revolves around a ragtag band of pushcart vendors who go to war against the fleets of trucks taking over their narrow city streets, most memorably by attacking enemy vehicles with pea shooters.
—New York Times, 21 July 2022
As the Greek Delta was close to Chicago’s wholesale markets, the first Greek immigrants could buy foodstuff and become pushcart peddlers, even before learning English.
—Ron Grossman, chicagotribune.com, 1 Apr. 2022
Gomez, who researched pushcart eating back to the Roman era for his design, says aesthetics are key.
—Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2021
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Vivian Chung, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 May 2022
Adding categories of mobile food establishments to separate pushcart vendors, food trucks that use an outside cooking area — such as a BBQ pit or pizza oven — and food trucks where all the cooking is done inside.
—Dallas News, 27 Apr. 2022
Sidewalk vendors and pushcart operators must pay $38 annually for a permit to sell their wares in San Diego.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Dec. 2022
Adam Wong, the executive chef, and CK Poon, the general manager, come in with a pushcart near the end of the meal.
—Maggie Hiufu Wong, CNN, 17 Oct. 2022
Hot Dogs opened as a pushcart on La Brea before the war, in 1939, and put up permanent walls in 1946.
—Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2022
The story revolves around a ragtag band of pushcart vendors who go to war against the fleets of trucks taking over their narrow city streets, most memorably by attacking enemy vehicles with pea shooters.
—New York Times, 21 July 2022
As the Greek Delta was close to Chicago’s wholesale markets, the first Greek immigrants could buy foodstuff and become pushcart peddlers, even before learning English.
—Ron Grossman, chicagotribune.com, 1 Apr. 2022
Gomez, who researched pushcart eating back to the Roman era for his design, says aesthetics are key.
—Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2021
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Word History
First Known Use
1853, in the meaning defined above
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“Pushcart.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pushcart. Accessed 1 Feb. 2023.
Kids Definition
pushcart
noun
push·cart
ˈpu̇sh-ˌkärt 
: a cart pushed by hand
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