Food Trucks & Mobile Vendors in New Jersey (2026)

Bergenfield caps mobile food vendor licenses at 10 boroughwide, charges $150 a year through the Health Department, and…

Selling food or beverages anywhere in a Camden County park requires a vendor permit from the Parks Department under…

Gloucester County bars anyone from selling food or drink in a Park Area unless they hold a contract with the county as…

Hackensack requires every mobile food vendor, from food trucks to pushcarts, to hold an annual license from the…

Operating in Jersey City's Zone 1 food truck spots, the downtown Columbus Drive, Montgomery Street and Sussex Street…

Township Code § 4-3 requires every mobile food vendor in Lakewood, kosher or non-kosher, to hold a license: $215 per…

Selling food or beverages from a cart, wagon or vehicle in Long Branch requires a City vending license plus sign-off…

Anyone selling food, drink or candy from a truck, cart or other vehicle on Newark streets needs a food peddler license…

No one may operate a mobile food establishment anywhere in Passaic without first obtaining a license from the Division…

A food truck operating in the Passaic County Park System needs an annual permit costing $500, with one permit required…

Toms River Township licenses mobile food units as peddlers, charging $800 for the first truck and $100 for each…

Brick Township requires a license from the Township Clerk for any mobile food-vending unit, food truck, or temporary…

Cherry Hill Township requires every mobile food unit, including lunch trucks, ice cream trucks and hot dog carts, to…

Edison Township's Fire Prevention Bureau issues a $350 semiannual permit letting mobile food trucks skip per-event Type…

Mobile food trucks in Elizabeth need a retail food establishment license from the health division before operating…

Freehold Township treats mobile food vendors, including ice cream trucks and seasonal food vendors, as retail food…

Hamilton Township requires every mobile food unit, defined as any truck, van, trailer or cart selling food from a…

Irvington requires every food truck, food trailer and itinerant merchant to hold a license from the Health Department's…

Linden defines a mobile retail food establishment as any movable truck, van, trailer, bicycle or hand-carried unit…

Paterson requires anyone selling food from a truck or cart to hold a Division of Health license, pass background…

Anyone who wants to sell food or beverages from a truck, pushcart, wagon or other vehicle inside the Village of…

Trenton requires mobile food trucks to hold a Retail Food Establishment Health License, priced at $200 a year, plus a…

Selling anything in a Somerset County park is banned outright under Section 5(b)(5): no vending zones exist for general…

Atlantic County confines food and merchandise sales on county property to a county park lease or pedestrian sidewalks…

Selling anything inside a Bergen County park, including from a mobile food truck or cart, requires a permit from the…

Bergenfield limits mobile food vendors to private commercial, industrial or office property in the M and B-2 zoning…

Brick Township limits stationary mobile food vending to business, commercial, industrial, and office-professional…

Mobile food vending is not allowed in Burlington County parks unless the Board of County Commissioners authorizes it…

Clifton bars anyone from hawking, peddling or vending foods, beverages or merchandise on the streets and sidewalks of…

Elizabeth bars all licensed peddlers, vendors and pushcart operators from the downtown special improvement district…

Hackensack confines routine mobile food vending to private commercial, industrial or office property inside an M-2…

Mobile food vendors can only sell inside Hamilton Township parks if they hold one of six Peddler, Class 2 licenses, and…

Irvington caps mobile food licenses by class and zone: five Class 1 truck licenses for commercial and industrial areas…

Mobile food vendors in Jersey City can only park at spots the city has specifically designated, § 175-13.A bans parking…

Long Branch bars selling food or merchandise from any cart, wagon or vehicle on Ocean Avenue or within 100 feet west of…

Mobile food vending is banned in every Mercer County park unless the vendor first gets written consent from the Park…

Newark limits where mobile food vendors can set up. Motor-vehicle peddlers must stay 200 feet from another vehicle…

Passaic confines a slice of its licensed mobile food fleet to one designated stretch: Madison Street between Hope…

Food concessions and food trucks in the Passaic County Park System are confined to authorized locations only, and to…

Licensed Paterson peddlers can't sell near fire hydrants, crosswalks, driveways, bus stops, store entrances, or…

Village of Ridgewood Code § 156-15C bans selling food or beverages from a wagon, pushcart, truck or other vehicle on…

Toms River bans street food vending on its main roads and within 1,000 feet of stores selling similar goods, but…

Trenton limits nonmotorized street and sidewalk vending to six named locations assigned by lottery, and a registered…

Camden County limits food vending in its parks to locations the Parks Department has specifically approved. Article 4…

Lakewood Township confines stationary mobile food vending to areas zoned business, commercial, industrial or…

Bergenfield's Sanitary Code flatly bars mobile food vendors from serving food or drinks along any public street…

Hackensack bars mobile food vendors from selling on any public street or sidewalk, including from parking spaces along…

Lakewood Township allows mobile food vending only from a motor vehicle. Code § 4-3.22 bars stacking or placing food…

Atlantic County bars selling food or merchandise on county roads or roadsides except from a hand-cart on a pedestrian…

Brick Township requires a license for mobile food vending carts and trucks, caps Class II vendors at 10 townshipwide…

Anyone who wants to hawk, peddle or vend food or beverages on Clifton's streets and sidewalks, whether from a cart…

No one may sell goods or set up a stand, cart, or vehicle to sell items in an Essex County park without the Director's…

Ice cream trucks and other mobile vendors in Hamilton Township must pull all the way to the curb and sell only from the…

Irvington bans parked food carts on its sidewalks outright and requires trucks to leave at least six feet of…

No one may peddle goods, wares, merchandise or food in Passaic without first obtaining a peddler's license from the…

Passaic County does not regulate street or sidewalk vending, that's a municipal matter in this home-rule state, but any…

Peddlers, hawkers, and street vendors need a Licensing Division license backed by a police background check before…

Village of Ridgewood Code bars selling, displaying or storing food for sale on the sidewalk itself, an entrance, a…

Peddlers, hawkers, itinerant vendors and canvassers must get a Township license, pass a criminal background check, and…

Sidewalk food vendors in Trenton need a City registration certificate plus a state peddler license, must display a…

Cherry Hill Township Code § 9-1.2 requires any food vendor, including a mobile food retail unit, to hold a license from…

Edison Township requires peddlers, transient merchants and door-to-door vendors to obtain an identification-badge…

Elizabeth requires every mobile food unit to hold an annual $750 peddler's license from the central licensing bureau…

Anyone selling goods, wares or produce from a cart, wagon or vehicle on Jersey City streets needs a peddler's license…

Peddlers and solicitors generally cannot sell on Linden's public rights-of-way, but the Code carves out an exception…

Long Branch lets sidewalk vendors set up only at the curbline, never mid-sidewalk, and keeps them at least 30 feet from…

Newark requires anyone hawking or peddling food, drinks, candy or other consumables from a cart, wagon or vehicle on a…

Selling food from a truck, cart or any vehicle in Woodbridge requires a written license application to the Township…