Riverside, CA Food Trucks & Mobile Vendors: Food Truck Permits (2026)

36 (Mobile Food Vendors), enacted in 2011 and amended through 2024, regulates self-propelled or towed vending vehicles selling foodstuffs from City streets. 04. 060 requires every vending vehicle to display, in a conspicuous place, a valid Environmental Health permit to operate as a mobile food merchant issued by the County of Riverside - a City certificate alone is not enough. 065 sets operating hours: sunrise to sunset in residential-only areas, sunrise to midnight everywhere else. 070 lays out where and how a truck can vend: it must be lawfully parked at the curb, cannot sit within 100 feet of an intersection, signal, or crosswalk while selling, cannot use metered spaces, bike lanes or bus stops, cannot vend unattended or overnight in the right-of-way, and must maintain a 25-foot debris-free radius with trash receptacles available to customers.

075 bars trucks entirely from six named open-space parks (Box Springs Mountain, Mount Rubidoux, Sycamore Canyon among them) and from any park with an exclusive concession agreement. 085 caps private-lot vending at two trucks per lot in designated commercial/industrial zones with landowner permission and off-street parking.