Gwinnett County, GA Food Trucks & Mobile Vendors: Food Truck Permits (2026)

Every mobile food truck or trailer operating as a standalone activity in unincorporated Gwinnett County falls under Chapter 265's temporary outdoor activity permit system. Section 265-10(A)(1) requires the Department of Planning and Development to issue that permit before any activity governed by the chapter can begin, and the Department collects a fee for it set by the County's adopted fee schedule. 2(A) then layers food-truck-specific conditions onto that base permit. The operator must keep documentation on hand proving the property owner gave permission to operate on the premises, under item 4, and must comply with every state, federal, and local health and safety regulation and hold whatever licenses any other governmental body with jurisdiction requires, under item 7, which covers Georgia's mobile food service health permit alongside the County's own rules.

The permit system caps frequency two ways. Item 8 limits a single parcel of land to no more than four temporary outdoor activity permits for mobile food units in a calendar year, though that annual cap does not apply to an office development that has no restaurant on-site. Item 9 limits each individual permit to a maximum of three consecutive operating days, so a food truck cannot simply renew in place to run continuously. 1(A).