Wilmington, NC: Food Trucks Take Over Commercial Space

Wilmington city rules require food truck operators to work from brick-and-mortar kitchens, a mandate challenging food truck operators.

Wilmington city rules require food truck operators to work from brick-and-mortar kitchens, a mandate challenging food truck operators.

Watching Wilmington’s food truck scene evolve is a lesson in the modern marketplace.

The Salsa Truck, is trying to get around it by starting a home base for their truck’s cooking, plus 20 brick-and-mortar seats, in a commissary named The Garage
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Food trucks are all required to park at a commissary overnight, where they’re thoroughly scrubbed down and cleaned—and can dispose of their waste properly and safely—but the city of Fort Worth merely requires trucks to visit a commissary once a day, and some of the mobile eateries aren’t even doing that.

No more commissary kitchen requirements for food trucks

Food trucks became an issue in Clintonville

Converse wants his people to succeed.

1st Ever shared-use commercial kitchen & mobile truck service station in San Francisco.

The biggest complaint is the proposed $596 annual fee

Latin music, DJs and food trucks at the preview opening of Casa Azafrán