Food Trucks & Mobile Vendors in Oregon (2026)

Oregon Health Authority licenses every mobile food unit statewide under ORS 624 and OAR 333-150. County environmental…

In the City of Albany, Oregon, a food truck or any other mobile food unit cannot operate inside the city limits without…

Placing a food truck or cart on private property year-round in the City of Corvallis requires two separate permits from…

Food trucks and other mobile businesses in Hillsboro need a business license plus a mobile business permit, must move…

Salem requires a separate one-year mobile food unit license, with its own fee, for every food truck, trailer, or wagon…

Beaverton food carts operating in an approved food cart pod must hold a current City Business License and keep all…

A food cart or mobile food unit operating in unincorporated Clackamas County is a licensed 'food service facility'…

Food carts and food cart pods operating in Gresham need a city development permit plus a Multnomah County Mobile Food…

Medford regulates food trucks through Section 10.829A, which sorts mobile food vendor pods into Daily Pods (up to five…

Multnomah County requires a permit before two or more mobile food carts operate together at one location, whether…

Selling food from a cart on a Portland sidewalk requires a City Administrator permit under the sidewalk vendor code…

A mobile food cart operating in downtown Springfield, Oregon needs a permit under the city's Downtown Food Cart…

In the City of Tigard, Oregon, a food cart on private property needs a Type II land use approval under Chapter 18.750…

A food truck or cart pod in unincorporated Washington County needs a temporary use permit renewed every year if it has…

Eugene confines licensed sidewalk commerce, the pushcart-style vending covered by EC 3.344(1), to one stretch of one…

In the City of Albany, Oregon, a food truck can only locate on a property in the zones named in Articles 4 and 5 of the…

Corvallis limits year-round mobile food vending on private property to three Commercial Mixed Use zones (CMU-1, CMU-2…

Hillsboro confines sidewalk carts and cafés to two mapped districts, Downtown and Orenco Station, and vending anywhere…

Mobile food vending in Springfield, Oregon is confined to specific zones depending on the licensing path: the Downtown…

Mobile food vending in Beaverton runs through the Development Code's Food Cart Pod process: carts are approved only in…

Benton County's Development Code names mobile food carts as a permitted eating-establishment use only inside the…

Gresham lets permitted street and sidewalk vendors sell food from carts in commercial areas, but GRC 9.45.080 bans…

Medford confines mobile food vendor pods to commercial and industrial zones, C-S/P, C-N, C-H, C-C, C-R, I-L, I-G and…

Portland requires a City Administrator permit to vend from a sidewalk cart, and only allows vending in permit operating…

Salem confines mobile food units to zones where they're a permitted use and bars them from operating in the public…

In the City of Tigard, Oregon, a food cart must sit on a property with an existing legal nonresidential use, on a paved…

A food truck or any vending vehicle cannot sit on a county right-of-way for more than 24 hours to sell merchandise…

In the City of Albany, Oregon, no one can use a street or sidewalk for selling, storing, or displaying merchandise or…

Beaverton bars fixed or mobile vendors and concessions on its parks, plazas and library grounds unless covered by a…

In the City of Bend, selling food, beverages, wares, or goods from a public sidewalk without an adjoining permanent…

County code bars vending vehicles, trailers, RVs and merchandise stands on the traveled roadway or abutting property if…

The City of Corvallis bars selling, storing, or displaying merchandise on any public way, including sidewalks, under…

Selling from a pushcart on an Eugene sidewalk requires a private-commerce-on-public-property license under EC 3.336…

Medford requires sidewalk vendors to hold a business license and City Manager-approved permit under Section 6.350…

Portland requires a City Administrator permit for every sidewalk vending cart and caps cart size to 24 square feet of…

Selling food, flowers, or merchandise from a Gresham street or sidewalk requires a Street and Sidewalk Vendor permit…

Hillsboro caps sidewalk vending carts at 6 feet long, 3½ feet wide, and 5 feet tall, and limits operating hours to 9…

In unincorporated Multnomah County, not Portland, a permit from the Health Department is required whenever more than…

Salem street vendors selling from pushcarts must keep carts no larger than three feet six inches by six feet, maintain…

Vending on Springfield, Oregon's public streets and sidewalks requires a city license under Springfield Municipal Code…