Colorado
Colorado food truck permit guides by city
What each Colorado city publishes about licensing a mobile food business: which permits, the published fees, and where to apply.
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In Colorado, the city is where most of it happens.
The state licenses very little of a food truck directly. The permit for the vehicle as a kitchen comes from a county or district health department. The licence to trade comes from the city. The fire inspection comes from a fire district, which does not follow city limits. And the sales tax registration comes from the state, the city, or both, depending on whether that city collects its own.
That is four bodies for one truck, and a truck that works Denver on Wednesday and Boulder on Saturday is dealing with two sets of them. These pages record what each city publishes, with a link to the page we read it on and the date we read it.
What this is and is not. This is a starting point for your own research, not legal advice, and not a determination of what your business needs. We describe what a jurisdiction publishes, say when we last read it, and link to the source so you can check it yourself. Requirements change, they differ by what you sell and where you park, and the authority is always the authority — not us.
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This is a problem on our end rather than anything to do with your permits. The general checklist below works without them.
The food truck permit checklistThe other two Colorado pieces
A commissary agreement is usually part of the health permit application rather than something you arrange afterwards, and the sales tax registration depends on whether the city collects its own.
Next to this
- Food truck permit checklist by stateThe kinds of licences and permits a mobile food business usually needs, each linked to that state's own source. Informational, not legal advice.
- Colorado sales tax rates for food trucksThe published combined sales tax rate for Colorado cities, what each rate is made of, and which authorities you actually file with.
- Colorado commissary kitchen directoryCommissary kitchens around Colorado that work with mobile food businesses, each showing where the listing came from and when it was last checked.
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