San Diego, CA: Jeffries Working to Repeal Food Truck Ban

We are the last county, I believe, in Southern California that bans food trucks from being in the county unless they’re at a festival

We are the last county, I believe, in Southern California that bans food trucks from being in the county unless they’re at a festival

In San Diego, we wanted to first test the waters to see if we would have a problem parking our trucks down there, but now we’ve started these weekly street closures so we’d have an organized way to have food trucks and it wouldn’t be a free for all with trucks parking on the streets

Gourmet food trucks will soon be a fixture at the San Marcos Farmers Market from 4 to 7 p.m. every Wednesday.

Today, people in San Diego have now shifted their concerns to food control. Years ago San Diego became one of the first counties to require a grading system by health inspectors. With such easy grading scales of “A,” “B,” “C,” customers can find the regulations assuring to determine a safe place to eat.

As the community gears up for the annual Dining Out for Life event next month, The San Diego LGBT Community Center will host Food Truck Fierceness on Thursday, March 21 from 5-8 pm

San Diego food trucks will receive letter grades from county inspectors starting this month.

Now that food trucks will display letter grades just like restaurants, Huarte hopes skeptics will be reassured.
The events that we’re at are mobile events and you walk by and you’re not sure, how good is this stuff, how safe is it. You see the A on my cart, you know I’ve been inspected by the health dept and you know you can feel comfortable coming to me

The San Diego Public Market is steadily building towards their goal of creating a year-round marketplace with shops for farms, food artisans, chefs and restaurants.

Food trucks have been the biggest boom in San Diego, with 40 specialty trucks (based in the county), adding all those participating in the event are county-based