Cheektowaga, NY Food Trucks & Mobile Vendors: Food Truck Permits (2026)

Section 179-2 defines "peddler" broadly enough to cover mobile food sales: anyone who travels by wagon, automotive vehicle or other conveyance carrying meat, fish, vegetables, fruits, garden truck farm products or provisions for sale, or who sells the same from a stationary wagon, automotive vehicle or other vehicle, falls under the definition. Section 179-3 makes it unlawful to engage in peddling anywhere in the Town outside the corporate limits of Sloan and Depew without first obtaining a permit, and it is a separate violation to obtain or use that permit through fraud or misrepresentation.

Section 179-6 sets the fee at $100 per person, assessed on a six-month basis with no prorating for a partial period; the permit can be revoked automatically on conviction of a violation. Farmers and producers selling their own meat, fish, fruit and farm products are exempt from the permit under § 179-9(B), a carve-out that would not cover a prepared-food truck vendor buying and reselling inventory. Applicants must also meet the § 179-4 filing requirements and cannot be under 18 under § 179-5(E).