Keywords
regulations, policy, food truck operation, proximity, location, private lots, sanitation, waste disposal, competition
Document Type
Comment
Abstract
Manny Hernandez, a Chicago food truck owner, would wake up in the middle of the night and slowly travel by foot around downtown Chicago carrying a 200-foot rope. The rope was used to measure the distance from the doors of brick-and-mortar restaurants to possible parking locations for his food truck. A Chicago ordinance prohibited food trucks from operating within 200 feet of the front door of any brick-and-mortar restaurant. Furthermore, Manny could not just find one spot; he needed to find many spots because Chicago law also stated that food trucks were only allowed to park at one location for a time period of two hours or run the risk of being fined up to $2,000.
Recommended Citation
Alvarez, N. (2021). Regulating the Food Truck Industry: An Illustration of Proximity and Sanitation Regulations. Journal of Food Law & Policy, 12(1). Retrieved from https://scholarworks.uark.edu/jflp/vol12/iss1/5
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