Food Trucks & Mobile Vendors in Connecticut (2026)

Connecticut requires food trucks to obtain itinerant vendor or class-rated food service licenses through local health…

Anyone who sells food from a pushcart, stand or motor vehicle on Bristol streets or public places qualifies as a…

A mobile food vendor must get a Town permit from the Consumer Affairs Coordinator, approved by the Chief of Police…

New Britain requires every mobile food vendor to hold a license from the department of licenses, permits and…

Every mobile food service operation in Ridgefield needs a permit from the Board of Selectmen under Town Code §…

In the City of West Haven, Connecticut, the code's term for a mobile food business is an itinerant food vending…

Bethel requires anyone operating a food truck or other mobile food unit, an ITINERANT FOOD VENDING business under §…

Bridgeport requires a food vending license for any mobile food unit that serves food from a conveyance with no fixed…

Hartford food trucks must hold two separate permits at once, a food service license from Health and Human Services and…

Operating a food truck in New Haven requires a vendor license from the city, plus a separate food-sale permit from the…

Norwalk has no food-truck-specific chapter: the food-establishment health rules in Chapter 45 explicitly exclude…

Stamford requires every mobile food vendor to hold a permit from the Cashiering and Permitting Department before…

Waterbury requires every self-contained food truck or van to carry an annual permit from the Department of Health…

A Town of Greenwich food vendor cannot sell within 1,000 feet of a school during session hours, or within 10 feet of a…

Hartford confines food truck operation to the right-of-way along connector streets and specific commercial districts…

In the City of New Britain, itinerant food vendors may sell only from seven designated Public Way Green Zones on…

New Haven confines most street vending to four special districts, Cedar Street, downtown, Long Wharf Drive, and Sachem…

A Norwalk street vendor license does not authorize selling in city parks. Code § 77-10 blocks any vending in public…

Ridgefield bans mobile food service operations from business zones outright under § 274-3(A), then reopens the door…

In the Town of Stratford, Connecticut, vending from a motor vehicle, trailer, cart or other mobile facility on public…

West Hartford bars street vending outright except for parades, festivals, block parties and similar events, but §…

Bridgeport restricts street vendors to districts OR-S, OR-G, OR-R, and limited DC-B days, but exempts food-only vendors…

Bristol bars peddlers, solicitors and canvassers from taking a stationary spot on Main Street, North Main Street, Hope…

Meriden bars vendors from blocking a street or sidewalk with a sale, and § 156-7 draws a hard line around schools: no…

Stamford bars mobile food vendors from parking within 10 feet of a driveway, bus stop or crosswalk, 20 feet of an…

In the City of West Haven, Connecticut, street vending cannot happen within 20 feet of a building entrance or driveway…

Street, itinerant and motor vehicle vendors need a police-issued license before selling on any Bridgeport sidewalk…

Bristol's Code of Ordinances bars anyone from selling goods, wares or services on a public street or sidewalk in the…

In the Town of Greenwich, a sidewalk counts as part of the "public street," so a food vendor there must sell straight…

Selling goods on Meriden's streets, sidewalks or public places makes you a peddler under Chapter 156, and the City…

Ridgefield allows exactly one mobile food service operation on a Town sidewalk: the spot next to Parcel/Tax Assessor's…

In the Town of Stratford, Connecticut, no one can peddle, vend, sell, offer for sale or auction goods on the streets…

Waterbury requires a Department of Public Health license, not just a permit, for any stationary outdoor food vending…

Anyone selling goods on foot, from a vehicle, or place to place within Danbury must get a $200 peddler license from the…

In the Town of Fairfield, food and ice cream trucks are licensed as transient merchants and may sell from 10:00 a.m. to…

Hartford caps sidewalk vending carts at 4 feet 9 inches high, 5 feet 8 inches long, and 3 feet 6 inches wide, and…

Sec. 14-224 of the New Britain Code requires food trucks and vending carts working the public way to serve customers…

New Haven caps pushcarts at 10 feet tall, 8 feet long, and 5 feet wide, requires 2 to 4 wheels, and keeps them off…

Street and sidewalk vendors in Norwalk can't set up within 10 feet of a driveway, bus stop or crosswalk, within 20 feet…

Stamford requires a city-issued license before vending goods on any public street, sidewalk, or park, $200 a year for a…

In the City of West Haven, Connecticut, every conveyance used for street vending must carry an attached trash…