Kansas City, Kansas is considering changing rules to allow food trucks to stay open later. Food truck owners in the area said they brought this petition after the Unified Government staff began telling them they had to be closed on 7 p.m. on weekdays and 8 p.m. on weekends, according to a report by KCTV 5.
« Most of our sales are at night. I want to say about 50% of our sales are going down because of this new schedule, » Ernest Mauro, co-owner of food truck Valencia’s Paco’s Tacos, said in the report.
Previously these rules were not enforced, but Unified Government senior counsel Ross Stewart said this crackdown came from neighbors complaining about noise and trash.
At the moment, the proposed changes call for a closing time of 2 a.m., allowing trucks to stay in one spot for eight hours instead of four, boosting penalties for illegal dumping and preventing food trucks from operating 100-feet or less from a physical restaurant.
Stewart said these changes will have to go through a committee prior to reaching the Unified Government commission.
