Food Trucks & Mobile Vendors in Louisiana (2026)

Louisiana Department of Health requires all food trucks and mobile food units to obtain state retail food permits and…

Mobile food and catering vehicles in Jefferson Parish need a Sheriff's Office registration before selling anywhere…

Food trucks and mobile vendors working the Lakefront and Downtown Development District need both a citywide itinerant…

New Orleans caps mobile food truck permits at 100 citywide and requires Department of Finance approval plus sign-off…

Food trucks and trailers operating in unincorporated Ascension Parish, on private property, parish land or in the…

Food truck vendors operating on private or Parish-owned property, or in the right-of-way, need a Caddo Parish food…

A "lunch wagon" or other mobile food operation counts as an eating and drinking establishment under City-Parish Code…

Operating a food truck or trailer in Lafayette requires a $300 mobile food establishment permit from the City-Parish…

Lafayette City-Parish Consolidated Government requires a mobile food establishment permit to operate a food truck…

Operating a food truck in Shreveport requires a food truck and trailer vendor's license from the Metropolitan Planning…

Terrebonne Parish requires every mobile food unit to register annually for $100 with the Regulatory Division, plus a…

Shreveport food trucks may only operate where a permanent business already holds a certificate of occupancy, in zoning…

Bossier Parish's ban on itinerant meat and seafood vendors does not apply in incorporated areas or within five miles of…

Jefferson Parish blocks all mobile food and merchandise vending in Mixed Use Corridor Districts, Commercial Parkway…

General transient-vendor permits for selling goods, wares or merchandise on New Orleans streets are void inside a…

Sec. 19-12 lets a vendor stop or park on a parish street only to make a delivery to occupants of a specific building or…

Mobile food vendors may operate in commercial, medical services or industrial zones and in unzoned parts of Terrebonne…

Food trucks in unincorporated Ascension Parish may only park in zoning districts listed as allowable on the Unified…

Caddo Parish food trucks may operate on private property or Parish-owned property, but only on an improved surface…

Lafayette confines mobile food trucks to non-residential lots as an accessory use, bars them from the public…

Lafayette City-Parish law restricts mobile food trucks to accessory use on non-residential private property: they…

St. Tammany Parish allows mobile food trucks as a permitted temporary use in its commercial zoning districts, not by…

Jefferson Parish bars selling anything, food included, from a truck, cart, stand or table on any public right-of-way…

Outside Alexandria's city limits, the Rapides Parish Police Jury bans using parish roads, streets or sidewalks as…

St. Tammany Parish's mobile food truck standard, UDC Sec. 400-8.BB, keeps every food truck, ice cream truck, and…

Bossier Parish bars itinerant vendors from selling, offering for sale, exhibiting for sale, or taking orders for fresh…

Lafayette requires an annual permit to sell food or beverages from a sidewalk pushcart, but the whole scheme, permits…

New Orleans caps mobile food truck permits at 100 citywide and requires a Department of Finance permit before a truck…

Selling from a sidewalk cart in Shreveport is legal only inside the B-4 central business district, and only with a…

Food trucks working the public right-of-way in unincorporated Ascension Parish must carry $1 million in liability…

Anyone peddling goods on Lafayette streets, sidewalks, or other outdoor public locations needs a city permit first…