Urban Street Donair is located just steps away from Calgary’s James Fowler High School.

Lunchtime is normally the busiest time of day for owner Sammy Aboumrad He estimates he gets up to 50 customers between noon and 12:20 p.m., and many of them area students.

But during the Friday lunch hour this week he only had about eight customers.

“We rely a lot on the students for our business. I’ve been waiting by the minute for the summer to end so we can get back into full swing,” Aboumrad said.

However, just a month into the school year and the students are gone again because of the teachers strike. “It’s been a ghost town in here in the daytime without the students,” Aboumrad said.

To make the situation worse, some of his other regular customers have disappeared too, forced to stay home to

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