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Keeping It ‘smpl’: Student-Led Food Truck Brings Burgers to Late-Night Collegetown
Three hundred burger orders in one night at the smpl Burger food truck marked a milestone for self-appointed “chief burger officers” Jean Salamoun ’25 and Ali Haroon ’27. After sitting through lectures and submitting homework during the day as full-time students, Salamoun and Haroon shift from the classroom to the food truck twice a week, where they begin work at 6 p.m. and head home at 3:30 a.m. At the end of the fall semester, the truck faced a rush of business after a year of burger-selling and events — selling 300 burgers in a single night, which is double or even triple the amount they sold at the start…