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Seattle Tech Workers Ditch Their Jobs For Indian Food Truck Startups
Indian food’s aroma — cinnamon, cardamom, clove and cumin, sweet and savory scents blending — draws food lovers to trucks like Joshi’s during any lunch rush.
After more than a decade with Microsoft, Shama Joshi had had enough . . . bad Indian food.
Joshi, a computer scientist by training, dropped out of the tech industry in 2016 to open her own food truck, Roll OK Please. The change of careers met her desire to own her own business, and fill what she sees as the dearth of good Indian food in Seattle.