The first and only food cart to set up shop in the plaza of City Hall has left, citing slow business and harassment by homeless protesters.



Mayor Charlie Hales' office confirmed Fuego Burritos had left the City Hall picnic area set up by the mayor last month to replace homeless campsites he swept from the Southwest 4th Avenue sidewalk.



Hales' spokesman Dana Haynes says the owner of Fuego Burritos moved his cart back to the sidewalk in front of the Portland Building—one block away. Haynes says the cart owner told the mayor's office his employees were being harassed by protesters camping along nearby parks.



"He said his workers had been harassed every day by protesters," says Haynes, "who said they were serving burritos on a religious shrine."



On July 23, the mayor's office removed a set of homemade shrines from the City Hall plaza, including the thatch tent that calls on people entering City Hall to pray for the end of the city's camping ban.