Food Trucks Soon Will Dot The Pflugerville Landscape

PFLUGERVILLE, TX — Food trucks are ubiquitous in Austin, not so much in Pflugerville. But a pilot program set to launch next week will bring more of the mobile eateries to town.

City officials plan to unveil the pilot project following approval by the city manager in May. The initiative is expected to run until the end of the year, city officials said. Food truck operators will be allowed to set up at their locations within city limits, with food permit fees for mobile food vendors removed through the pilot project's run.

Unlike Austin where food trucks are something of a culinary Wild West, the restaurants on wheels are strictly regulated in Pflugerville where they are permitted only as temporary vendors at public or private events. City council members earlier this year directed the planning department to design a pilot program toward overhauling the regulation of food trucks.

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