The Nampa, Idaho City Council was crafting a Mobile Food Vendor License but tabled the issue after receiving feedback from the public. Instead, the council will seek input from food truck vendors to make revisions to the license. Food trucks in town currently are under Peddlers and Solicitor’s regulations, but this license would make regulations clearer for food trucks, according to a report by Idaho News 6.
In order to receive a license, trucks would either have to leave their location every night or stay in place, while hiding their truck from public view, which didn’t set well with many food truck owners.
« My word of mouth is the back of my trailer, » RaeAnn Birney, co-owner of The Perking Spot food truck said. « That’s what people see as they’re passing by and so to cover it would also mean to move it or construct something to hide it. This is our livelihood, so if you hide us, we will never be successful and everyone’s going to go out of business anyway. »
Birney does think that the city will be able to address these issues and is happy that the council agreed to seek vendor input.
