When siblings Lisa and Jacob David opened a food truck in downtown Olympia in 2011, they had one problem: The local health department, which needed to approve their operation, had no code for traditional shawarma. No one in Thurston County had asked for the process to be certified before, they recall.
Jacob David, raised with his sister in Toledo, Ohio, called in some Midwest backup. He contacted the health department in Dearborn, Michigan—home to a lot of Middle Eastern cuisine. “I asked them what the rules and policies are, and I took all the notes, and I helped the [Thurston County] health department basically write their rules,” he says.
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