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The fast-casual burger spot Shake Shack closed nine underperforming restaurants in September, including five in the Los Angeles area.

“We’ve had no power for six days”, she says, brewing coffee on a makeshift charcoal stove inside her breeze-block, tin-roofed shack.

The snack shack is a few feet away.

On the outside of the snack shack at Sherman Oaks Little League, a plaque honors “the incredible volunteers who have put out countless hours to help create an amazing place for our children.”

She kept the title she had originally chosen — "Whose Names Are Unknown" — which was based on an eviction notice she had seen on a decrepit worker’s shack on a corporate farm, a notice that read “To John Doe and Mary Doe whose true names are unknown.”