East Brunswick, NJ Food Trucks & Mobile Vendors: Food Truck Permits (2026)

Mobile food sales in East Brunswick Township run through two chapters of the Township Code. Chapter 109 (Food Handling Establishments) governs the health side, and Chapter 135, Article III (Peddlers, Solicitors and Itinerant Vendors) governs the right to sell on the street.

Fees under § 109-6: the retail food fee schedule lists Mobile Truck/Ice Cream Truck at $150.00 and Catering Truck at $150.00 under the heading OTHER. Subsection C separately prints an annual fee of fifty dollars for each permit or renewal of an existing permit for each itinerant retail food-handling vehicle, and says that paying it does not entitle the vendor to the license required under Chapter 135, Article III, so a separate application and fee are made under that Article. Subsection E covers a temporary license for food limited to a carnival, fair or festival: $50 for one to two days or $100 for a calendar year license, obtained from East Brunswick Township.

Vehicle inspection under § 109-5(F): before a licensee uses a vehicle in the business, it is submitted to the Director of Health, Environment and Welfare for inspection and approved. The licensee resubmits it for reasonable reinspection whenever asked during the license term, no vehicle is used without approval, and a certificate of written approval stays in the vehicle at all times and is shown to any member of the Division of Police or other Township official who asks.

Operating rules in § 109-5: food and produce from vehicles open on any side stay completely screened or covered, seafood, meats, poultry and dairy travel only in refrigerated vehicles, debris goes into leakproof metal containers, and no waste is left on any street, roadway, curb or walk.

Term: § 109-7 expires licenses each June 30, and a license issued between January 1 and June 30 is available at half the usual fee. Chapter 135 adds a fifty dollar per person per year peddler fee (§ 135-21). Under § 135-22, licensed peddlers sell between 9:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. on weekdays, except that peddlers of manufactured ready-to-eat food such as ice cream or custard operate from 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. any day, including Sunday, and that subsection is strictly construed.