I came across this little nugget. The makeshift, apparently gourmet, kitchen at Zucotti Park closed for several days because the workers thought they were serving too many “professional” homeless people alongside the protestors.

Our experience in Madison over the last months seems to indicate that homeless people found food as well as shelter during the protests here. Numbers at the men’s shelter were quite low for several months, and our monthly meal saw lower numbers than usual, as well. My guess is that Ian’s Pizza and the unions with their free brats were filling lots of empty stomachs, and not trying to distinguish between the deserving and undeserving.