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Demand dwindles as local film industry falters

A spread from the Ibiza food truck/ Photos provided by Raf and Jamie Morales
A spread from the Ibiza food truck/ Photos provided by Raf and Jamie Morales
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For more than a decade, Atlanta’s film industry kept Raf Morales’ catering business booming. He bought a food truck in 2011 to break into film catering, meeting productions whether they were filming in a neighborhood or a production studio. For years, he got more requests than he could imagine to feed hungry crew members, actors, and Hollywood executives.

“We just were so busy,” he said. “It was so time consuming and demanding that we couldn’t do anything else. We were feeding 300 people a day for breakfast and lunch.”

 
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