April Williams and her husband Dustin — the owners of À La Cart — are Central Florida natives, but their professional backgrounds are not in food and hospitality.
The couple was working as teachers while living in Bend, Oregon.
“Every time we would go out to eat, we almost always go to a food cart pod,” April Williams said. “My husband, I have very different eating styles and we can always both get exactly what we want (at a food cart pod) without fighting, our son can kind of run around in the open air. Usually, we can find a drink and (it’s) just a very casual place to just come together and enjoy ourselves.”
The couple made the decision to open their own food cart pod back in their hometown of Orlando, the first in the city.
À La Cart opened up for business three years ago. The space features several food carts and even helped to launch several brick-and-mortar restaurants.
On the latest episode of Florida Foodie, April Williams talks all about the process of selling their home on the West Coast to take a chance on starting À La Cart. She also talks about working in the Milk District and how the food cart pod weathered the pandemic.
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