The working uniform of someone who runs a food cart at a Circuit-level transit hub or factory gate, assembled for maximum function across a twelve-hour outdoor shift in Meridian's unpredictable acid-rain cycles. The outermost layer is a full-length rubberized apron in deep charcoal with a GridFeed street-brand logo — a stylized fork wrapped in a signal wave — stamped in white across the chest bib. It's not a corponation; GridFeed is a small Circuit-level vendor supply cooperative that sells aprons, cart equipment, and bulk food inputs to independent vendors, and the logo on the apron is a mark of membership, not employment. Beneath the apron is a long-sleeve thermal work shirt in burnt orange with ribbed cuffs, a relaxed collar, and two breast pockets; the left pocket holds a small order stylus and a folded cloth for wiping down surfaces. Trousers are dark navy cargo-cut in a stain-resistant synth-cotton blend, with a wide waistband and a deep front pocket configured to carry a card reader and a personal comm unit simultaneously.

Footwear is the Ashgrove Linework Work Boot in black with a non-slip sole rated for wet and grease-slicked surfaces — essential for anyone working around hot oil and condensation runoff. The head is covered with a tall white cook's cap or, in rain, a waterproof brimmed hat in matching charcoal with the GridFeed logo repeated on the front. Hands cycle between bare (for fine work) and nitrile gloves (for food handling), kept in a side apron pocket in a continuous rotation. The gene-compatible cut of the apron includes a reinforced tail slot at the back lower hem — a wide, finished opening that accommodates a full prehensile tail without bunching or restriction, since enough Circuit-level vendors have geneware modifications that GridFeed built it into their standard apron pattern. The whole rig smells permanently of whatever's on the menu today: chili oil, fermented soy, spiced protein paste, rain-steam.