Bridgeport, CT Food Trucks & Mobile Vendors: Food Truck Permits (2026)
Key Facts
- Annual license fee
- $300, due March 31
- Late renewal fee
- $380
- Temporary 5-day license
- $125
- Licensing agency
- Bridgeport Dept. of Health
Summary
Bridgeport requires a food vending license for any mobile food unit that serves food from a conveyance with no fixed location or utility hookups.
No person, firm or corporation shall operate or maintain within the city an itinerant food vending business, servicing food or drink from any conveyance, without fixed location and without connections to water supply and sewage disposal systems, except after compliance with Public Act No. 17-93 and the Public Health Code of the State of Connecticut. The annual fee for each itinerant food vending unit shall be three hundred dollars ($300.00). All licenses will be due by March 31st. A temporary itinerant vending food license of five days at a fee of one hundred twenty-five dollars ($125.00) can be obtained.
Full Breakdown
The city's Health Department licenses itinerant food vending under Bridgeport Municipal Code § 8.20.590. Operators of a truck, cart or other conveyance selling food or drink without a fixed location and without water or sewage connections must comply with the license requirement plus Public Act No. 17-93 and the state Public Health Code. The annual license runs $300, due by March 31 each year; a five-day temporary itinerant vending license costs $125.
Violations & Fines
Missing or lapsed license: renewal fee jumps from $300 to $380 if not paid by March 31. Operating without the required license or state Public Health Code compliance is a code violation subject to enforcement by the Department of Health and Social Services.
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