Who doesn’t love a food truck? Convenient. Portable. Smells great. But our favorite quality of the food truck is room for creativity, which makes up for its lack of physical room to move around in. Truth is, a food truck can be anything and can serve anyone.
But in Texas, food trucks have long been stifled by rules that require individual permits and inspections for each city and county they operate in. Getting both costs precious money and time that food truck owners, or anyone for that matter, simply don’t have.
“The rules and regulations are very complex,” says Sarah Lewis, event organizer at Food Truck League Dallas. “I haven’t seen anything like it for any other profession I can think of. If you’re an electrician or a plumber, you get one license and you go anywhere. But for a food truck, it literally varies by every single city in every single county.”…