Neenah, WI: Neenah Passes Food Truck Rules

Mobile food vendors will soon need a license to operate in Neenah.

Mobile food vendors will soon need a license to operate in Neenah.

City business owners, civic leaders and food vendors Wednesday began crafting an ordinance that would allow permits for food carts or trucks in Wausau.

Milwaukee’s food trucks have slowly been rolling out — on the rare day this spring when the weather has cooperated — and a new truck called Simmer is due to join their ranks May 6.

The mobile food season opener used to have more impact when carts closed around Thanksgiving and reappeared with the daffodils. These days, more carts are vending through the winter. For vendors who are shuttered for deep winter but like to get an early start, it’s been a challenging spring.

The wildly popular Isthmus a la Carts, a celebration of the Madison-area street food scene, once again pulls up to Olin Park, on the shores of beautiful Lake Monona, on Friday, May 10.

The issue has garnered coverage in the campus media in addition to a social media campaign launched by Fried & Fabulous food cart owner Steve Lawrence, who has been running an online petition to garner support for the vendors.

There’s been a big trend emerging in southeastern Wisconsin’s food scene — the “mobile meal movement.”

The restaurant also will serve as a home base for the truck.

Well, the day is finally here, we are a food truck with a food truck.