Chapel Hill’s anti-business regulatory environment continues. The town’s set of regulations on food truck owners is so ridiculous and uncompetitive that NOT ONE has applied for a permit.
Chapel Hill’s food truck fees are the most expensive in the Triangle, totaling $886 in permits and license fees for the vendor and the property owner who hosts the truck.
The town’s current rules came in the midst of an ongoing campaign to make over the town’s business image, from a place of over-regulation to one of innovation and inclusiveness.
The food truck ordinance does little to enforce the new image, food truck supporters say.
Food truck businesses may be allowed in Chapel Hill, but they certainly don’t feel invited, said Jody Argote, owner of the Parlez Vous Crepes truck.
“The message that the food truck operators got from the Town of Chapel Hill was that food trucks weren’t really welcome there,” she said.
