Until this month, a food truck that wanted to work a lunch crowd in Dallas, then a weekend market in Fort Worth, then a private event in Plano needed three separate health permits to do it legally, three applications, three fees, three inspections, for the same truck serving the same food. As of July 1, that’s gone. Texas now issues a single statewide mobile food vendor license, and for operators who’ve spent years budgeting around overlapping city fees, the change is already showing up on the bottom line.
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