Restricted Area Mobile Food Vending Permit

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After You Apply

After you submit your application

Beginning one week after the applicant submits the application and is issued a receipt, he/she should call (212) 676-1600 or (646) 632-6203 and ask for the Bureau of Food Safety and Community Sanitation to schedule a pre-permit inspection of their mobile food vending unit.

The New York City Administrative Code requires that all mobile food vending units pass an inspection within six (6) months of the date an application is submitted or the application becomes void. There is no waiver of this time requirement.

IMPORTANT: PERMIT HOLDERS MUST ACCOMPANY THEIR UNITS TO THE PRE-PERMIT INSPECTION - NO EXCEPTIONS.

The applicant may begin vending from the mobile food vending cart/truck immediately after passing an inspection and is issued an inspection decal. The actual permit document will be sent via mail to the applicant's mailing address.

Food cannot be sold from a pushcart, stand, or truck without a valid DOHMH Mobile Unit Permit/Inspection Sticker (decal), even when the operator has a valid Mobile Food Vending License issued by DOHMH.

This permit type will expire up to two years from the end of the month in which the applicant applied or on the expiration date on the contract or lease, whichever comes first.