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New Orleans Food Truck Coalition

To educate the public about the benefits of food trucks for our community.

To work with the City on legislative reform.

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Benefits of Food TrucksFood Trucks are a potent source of opportunity for New Orleanians of all backgrounds.

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Benefits of Food TrucksFood Trucks are low-barrier to entry for established restaurants, family businesses, and first time entrepreneurs.

Start-up Capital required to start a food truck: ~$40k

Start-up Capital required to start a restaurant: ~$250k

Ideal entry point into the culinary business

New aspect of NOCCA Curriculum

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Benefits of Food TrucksLow-barrier food entrepreneurship will help our city’s authentic culinary culture flourish well in to the future.

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Benefits of Food TrucksFood trucks can generate additional revenue for the City of New Orleans.

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Benefits of Food TrucksAs mobile businesses, food trucks can help accelerate the revitalization of blighted thoroughfares and under-served neighborhoods.

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Benefits of Food TrucksFood trucks bring street life and increase foot traffic, which creates safer spaces and “Eyes on the Streets,” and helps local businesses. Food Truck Rally & Symposium on 7/24 brought

>500 people to O.C. Haley

We Now Host Weekly Tuesday Food Truck Round-Ups on O.C. Haley

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Benefits of Food TrucksFood trucks complement and strengthen successful commercial storefronts.

Food trucks typically park in front of complementary businesses

Mutually Beneficial Set-up

Brigade Coffee w/ Stein's, Company Burger, St. James Cheese Company

La Cocinita w/ Le Bon Temps Roule, Hollygrove Market & Farm

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Benefits of Food TrucksRestaurant Owners can create mobile branches of their businesses.

Dat Dog Express, Drago's, Sucre

Martinique (currently only in Houma but would like a NOLA truck)

Food trucks can branch out into restaurants: Boucherie

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Benefits of Food TrucksFood trucks can even serve as first-responders during times of crisis, as we saw recently. Equipped with generators, food trucks can

serve hot food in the aftermath of a storm before restaurants are able to open

Empanada Intifada, Taceaux Loceaux, etc. served food at discounted pricing post-Isaac

Teaming up with Catholic Charities to bring trucks to Braithwaite later this month to feed residents.

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Benefits of Food TrucksJob Benefits

Every 20 trucks permitted would create an estimated 100 jobs (40 full-time jobs & 60 part-time jobs).

Thus, 100 additional permits would eventually create 500 full- and part-time jobs.

SBA: Small businesses create more than half of the private non-farm gross domestic product, and they create 60 to 80 percent of the net new jobs nationally

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Benefits of Food TrucksTax Benefits

Food Sales were the largest source of sales tax revenue for the City in 2011.

Between January and September of 2012, NOLAFoodTrucks.com received 53 email inquiries from people wanting to start new food trucks in New Orleans.

Allowing more trucks to get permitted would increase the revenue flow for the City

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Benefits of Food TrucksStrengthen and Revitalize our Networks of Local Businesses

Local Goods (Groceries, Fuel, Propane, Hardwares, etc.)

Local Services (Mechanics, Electricians, Web and Graphic Designers, etc.)

Property Tax (in the form of Commissary Kitchen Rent)

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Benefits of Food TrucksFood Deserts & Underserved Markets

Federal City in Algiers

UNO on the Lakefront

Delgado CC in Mid-City

New Hospital Site in New Orleans East

O.C. Haley in Central City

St. Claude & 9th Ward

Dillard University & Gentilly

Xavier University & Gert Town

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Current Ordinances

1. 100 Permit Cap

2. 600 Feet from Restaurants & Schools

3. CBD/French Quarter Ban

4. 45-Minute Time Restriction

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Current Ordinances

1. 100 Permit Cap

Includes Snowball Vendors, Produce Vendors, Fresh Seafood Vendors, Lucky Dogs, etc.

Nearly impossible to get a permit at any given time

2 ½-page Wait List

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Current Ordinances

2. 600 Feet from Restaurants & Schools

600 Feet = 2 Football Fields

New Orleans is a culinary haven with hundreds of restaurants

Severely restricts possibilities for food trucks

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Current Ordinances

4. CBD/French Quarter Ban

From Howard to Esplanade, & From the River to Claiborne

Need for quick, inexpensive lunch options in the CBD

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Current Ordinances

3. CBD/French Quarter Ban

From Howard to Esplanade, & From the River to Claiborne

Need for quick, inexpensive lunch options in the CBD

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Current Ordinances

4. 45-Minute Time Restriction

Takes ~30 minutes to set up

Social media followers need time to track down trucks

Unrealistic parameter for both consumers and businesses

Doesn’t affect health or safety

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Health & SafetyFire Regulations

Inspected Annually

Fire Suppression System: All permitted trucks have sprinkler systems in case of fire

Annual Liquid Propane Gas Inspections

Semiannual Hood Vent Inspections

3 Fire Extinguishers with Proper Annual Inspections, Including one for Electrical Fires

No Smoking Signs Near Propane Tanks

Ample Distance Between Propane Tanks and Generator

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Health & SafetyHealth Regulations

Inspected Semiannually & Daily During Mardi Gras Along the Parade Route.

Complete compliance with Part XXIII of the Louisiana State Sanitary Code

3-basin sink + separate hand-washing station, all w/ hot water and strong pressure

Sanitizer & test kits for proper dishwashing

Proper Food & Refrigeration Thermometers

Smooth & cleanable surfaces throughout

Wastewater tank must exceed the freshwater tank by at least 15%

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Health & SafetyCommissary Kitchens

All food trucks must cook and store their food in a commissary kitchen

These kitchens are separately inspected by the Health Department specifically for the food truck to ensure ample storage and prep space, in addition to a sanitary environment.

Organizations & Restaurants

that Publicly Support the NOFTC:

Cochon

Patois

Dat Dog

Good Work Network

StayLocal!

Grow Dat Youth Farm

Stein's Deli

NOWFE(New Orleans Wine & Food Experience)

Midway Pizza

Tales of the Cocktail

Le Bon Temps Rouler

St. James Cheese Company

Pizza Delicious

Lilette

Maple Street Bakery

Hansen's Sno-Bliz

NOLA Locavores

Velvet Espresso

45 Tchoup

Poppy Tooker, Louisiana Eats

Chef Tory McPhail,

Commander's Palace

Chef Joaquin Rodas,

Bachannal

Neighborland

Clancy's

New Orleans Center for

Creative Arts Institute

Dominique's on Magazine

Babs Johnson,Lafayette Square

Conservancy

Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar

Propeller (Formerly SENO)

Martinique

Zeitgeist Multidisciplinary

Arts Center

Kyoto Sushi

Naked Pizza

The Rusty Nail

O.C. Haley Arts Market

Company Burger

Slow Food New Orleans

Dante's Kitchen

Brigtsen's

Emeril's

THANK YOU!