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Duly Quoted: Zane Caplansky
“[W]hen we showed up on Ossington at two in the morning and people started clapping, you realize this is what people want.”
—Zane Caplansky, owner of Caplansky’s Delicatessen, on the new custom-fitted food truck he’s just started sending out on city streets. Thundering Thelma, as his mobile poutine/smoked meat shop is known, is more than a source of curds and gravy—she also represents a growing move by many entrepreneurs to bring more and varied food to Toronto. After the City-run A La Carte program—widely acknowledged to be a mess of red tape that has failed both cooks and residents—some are considering food trucks as a way of bringing flexible, less bureaucratic street eats out to hungry Torontonians.