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

1 defines a MOBILE RETAIL FOOD ESTABLISHMENT as any movable truck, van, trailer, bicycle or other movable unit, including hand-carried, portable containers, in or on which food or beverage is transported, stored or prepared for retail sale or given away at temporary locations. 6, License Required, makes it unlawful for a mobile retail food establishment, grouped in the Code alongside peddlers, hawkers, transient merchants and solicitors, to sell or offer to sell goods or services without first obtaining a license. 9 forwards it to the Police Department, the Board of Health, the Zoning Officer, the Fire Prevention Bureau and the Law Department; the Board of Health specifically reviews any application involving a mobile retail food establishment, and the Zoning Officer checks compliance with the Land Use, Land Development and Zoning ordinances found in Chapters 28, 29 and 31.

Once the license is issued, the annual fee itself is set separately in the Linden Board of Health fee schedule at Section BH6-2, which lists retail food establishment charges: a mobile food truck pays $100 per year, while a mobile ice cream truck pays $75 per year. 10, reflecting that mobile food vending is licensed through a separate Board of Health track layered on top of the general peddling license structure. Operators should expect both the City's peddler/solicitor licensing process and a Board of Health food-safety review before hitting the street.