Maui County, HI Food Trucks & Mobile Vendors: Vending Zones (2026)

040, the county's general zoning definitions section, defines a "mobile food truck" as a motorized vehicle or vehicle-towed trailer where food is cooked or prepared to order and served to walkup customers, with a built-in time limit: if the truck or trailer stays on the same lot for more than three consecutive days, the use converts into an "eating and drinking establishment" instead, which is regulated as a fixed use under a different set of zoning and parking rules. That three-day cutoff is what keeps a food truck a food truck rather than a de facto restaurant requiring the building and use permits that apply to permanent eateries.

30A, where trucks operate as accessory "agricultural food establishments" tied to an active farm operation, is the zoning district where mobile trucks are affirmatively contemplated as their own use. Outside that context, the same parking table makes clear mobile food trucks cannot occupy any parking space that a lot is required to provide for eating and drinking establishments or agricultural food establishments with or without dining areas, so a truck parked in a required parking stall to serve customers at another business is out of compliance regardless of the three-day rule.