Food truck and cart owners have already waited 9 months for the City Council to create new rules and regulations for food truck operation, a move deemed necessary following the discovery that a city health inspector had gone rogue and illegally granted licenses to anyone with a food truck. Now, after new complications arose that [...]
As expected, the City Council unanimously introduced a bill to better regulate food trucks and carts for the third time in half a year, but some food cart owners still found the background checks to be an onerous and illegally-invasive action on the part of the city. Although the bill will only address some of [...]
As expected, food truck regulation will return at tonight’s City Council meeting as a first reading bill for the third time. The ordinance being introduced will only address health, safety, and fees in an effort to get the food truck business back in order after the embarrassing arrest of a former city health inspector. For [...]
Food truck regulation will have to wait a little bit longer after the city tabled the latest proposal to bring itinerant food vendors back into the fold. The issue, according to Ward D Councilman Bill Gaughan, is the addition of rental spaces allotted in the downtown area of Jersey City costs too little for their [...]
The city’s plans to regulate food truck vending took a step towards law when the first reading of the ordinance passed unanimously at Wednesday night’s City Council meeting, 9-0. Despite voting in favor, however, both City Council President Peter Brennan and Ward D Councilman Bill Gaughan said they would like to see some of the [...]
Five months after the City Council tabled an ordinance expanding city oversight of food truck vendors because it was deemed to be an “unfair burden” on businesses, a revised version of the ordinance will be presented at tonight’s City Council caucus meeting.
The Kraverie will feature a menu with favorite items from both trucks, including some dishes – like a crepe with Korean BBQ meat – that fuse the two very different cuisines. It will also serve special new items that aren’t currently available at either truck.
The Historic Downtown Special Improvement District (HDSID) in Jersey City is set to add a new cultural event to its already chock-full repertoire this weekend with the inaugural All About Downtown Street Festival. The festival, which runs from noon to 7 pm on Saturday at the Grove Street PATH plaza and along Newark Avenue west [...]
With the 7th annual Vendy Awards right around the corner, contest organizers announced today that they are including a Best of New Jersey award for the first time ever, and three food trucks that sling eats in Jersey City — The Cinnamon Snail, Two Pitas in a Pod and The Taco Truck — are the [...]
As City Hall continues to weigh changes to Jersey City’s food truck law, one truck owner is expanding his business with the soft launch last week of Oriental Masala, a brick-and-mortar venture located just off of India Square’s main drag.
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