Vegan sushi cart Mitate had only been open for two weeks when Portland’s record-breaking heat wave hit. Owners Summer and Nino Ortiz, who had worked in restaurants before opening their cart, struggled with whether they should stay open — it’s just the weather, right? “We went, ‘Well, if you close for this one, do you close every time it gets hot?’” Nino Ortiz remembers. But before the heat even reached its peak, the Ortizes decided to shut down. “After 95 degrees, I can’t even focus,” he says. “I’m managing my tickets and I’m not thinking quick enough.”
These internal debates have become more frequent within Portland’s food cart community.
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