A presentation to the New Orleans City Council by the New Orleans Food Truck Coalition on 10/8/12 regarding the need to change New Orleans' out of date food truck and mobile vending laws. www.nolafoodtrucks.com

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2. New Orleans Food Truck Coalition
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To educate the public about the
benefits of food trucks for our
community.
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To work with the City on
legislative reform.

3. Benefits of Food Trucks
Food Trucks are a
potent source of
opportunity for New
8 Orleanians of all
backgrounds.
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4. Benefits of Food Trucks
Food Trucks are low-
barrier to entry for
established restaurants,
8 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 4

5. Benefits of Food Trucks
Low-barrier food
entrepreneurship will
help our city’s authentic
8 culinary culture flourish
well in to the future.
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6. Benefits of Food Trucks
Food trucks can
generate additional
revenue for the City of
8 New Orleans.
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7. Benefits of Food Trucks
As mobile businesses,
food trucks can help
accelerate the
8 revitalization of blighted
thoroughfares and
under-served
neighborhoods.
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8. Benefits of Food Trucks
Food trucks bring street
life and increase foot
traffic, which creates
8 safer spaces and “Eyes
on the Streets,” and
helps local Symposium on 7/24 brought
 Food Truck Rally & businesses.
>500 people to O.C. Haley
 We Now Host Weekly Tuesday Food Truck
Round-Ups on O.C. Haley
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9. Benefits of Food Trucks
Food trucks complement
and strengthen
successful commercial
8 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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10. Benefits of Food Trucks
Restaurant Owners can
create mobile branches
of their businesses.
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 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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11. Benefits of Food Trucks
Food trucks can even
serve as first-
responders during times
8 of crisis, as we saw
recently. generators, food trucks can
 Equipped with
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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12. Benefits of Food Trucks
Job 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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13. Benefits of Food Trucks
Tax 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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14. Benefits of Food Trucks
Strengthen 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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15. Benefits of Food Trucks
Food 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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16. Current Ordinances
1. 100 Permit Cap
2. 600 Feet from Restaurants & Schools
3. CBD/French Quarter Ban
8 4. 45-Minute Time Restriction

17. Current Ordinances
1. 100 Permit Cap
Includes Snowball Vendors, Produce
Vendors, Fresh Seafood Vendors,
Lucky Dogs, etc.
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Nearly impossible to get a permit at
any given time
2 ½-page Wait List
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18. Current Ordinances
2. 600 Feet from Restaurants & Schools
600 Feet = 2 Football Fields
New Orleans is a culinary haven with
hundreds of restaurants
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Severely restricts possibilities for food
trucks
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19. Current Ordinances
4. CBD/French Quarter Ban
From Howard to Esplanade, & From
the River to Claiborne
Need for quick, inexpensive lunch
8 options in the CBD

20. Current Ordinances
3. CBD/French Quarter Ban
From Howard to Esplanade, & From
the River to Claiborne
Need for quick, inexpensive lunch
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options in the CBD

22. Current Ordinances
4. 45-Minute Time Restriction
Takes ~30 minutes to set up
Social media followers need time to
track down trucks
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Unrealistic parameter for both
consumers and businesses
Doesn’t affect health or safety
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23. Health & Safety
Fire 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
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Tanks
Ample Distance Between Propane

24. Health & Safety
Health 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
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Smooth & cleanable surfaces
throughout

25. Health & Safety
Commissary 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.
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26. Organizations & Restaurants
that Publicly Support the
NOFTC:

27. Cochon

28. Patois

29. Dat Dog

30. Good Work Network

31. StayLocal!

32. Grow Dat Youth Farm

33. Stein's Deli

34. NOWFE
(New Orleans Wine &
Food Experience)

35. Midway Pizza

36. Tales of the Cocktail

37. Le Bon Temps Rouler

38. St. James Cheese
Company

39. Pizza Delicious

40. Lilette

41. Maple Street Bakery

42. Hansen's Sno-Bliz

43. NOLA Locavores

44. Velvet Espresso

45. 45 Tchoup

46. Poppy Tooker,
Louisiana Eats

47. Chef Tory McPhail,
Commander's Palace

48. Chef Joaquin Rodas,
Bachannal

49. Neighborland

50. Clancy's

51. New Orleans Center
for Creative Arts
Institute

52. Dominique's on
Magazine

53. Babs Johnson,
Lafayette Square
Conservancy

54. Dos Jefes Uptown
Cigar Bar

55. Propeller
(Formerly SENO)

56. Martinique

57. Zeitgeist
Multidisciplinary Arts
Center

58. Kyoto Sushi

59. Naked Pizza

60. The Rusty Nail

61. O.C. Haley Arts
Market

62. Company Burger

63. Slow Food New
Orleans

64. Dante's Kitchen

65. Brigtsen's

66. Emeril's

67. THANK YOU!