Food Truck Inspections Keep Branford Fire Department Busy

By Jack Kramer

Correspondent

BRANFORD, CT – Branford has become a hot spot for craft beer breweries and one of the impacts of that phenomenon is its caused an increased workload for the town’s Fire Department.

By state law you have to serve food when you open a craft beer site – which is why every craft beer brewery in Branford has at least one or more food trucks on its location.

Before those trucks can open for business they have to be thoroughly inspected.

Those inspections are the responsibility of the town’s Fire Department, and at a recent Board of Fire Commissioners meeting Assistant Fire Chief Shaun Heffernan said they are taking up a fair amount of the department’s time.

“We have to inspect every food truck, that keeps us busy,” said Heffernan, nothing that there could be three or four trucks at one site during busy weekends.