Eighteen bar and restaurant owners are asking Ottawa City Hall to regulate food trucks. Mayor Dan Aussem knows of just one food truck that’s regularly in town. He says Bertha’s is well run.
Currently, the city has no regulations on food trucks. All they have to do to sell food in Ottawa is show up–as long as they comply with county and state rules.
The bar and restaurant owners wanting regulations want food trucks limited to city festivals and food businesses already in the city. They say the restrictions they operate under with the pandemic are already costly without the competition.
Aussem says he might use Bertha’s as an example of how food trucks should be done.
Here’s Mayor Aussem reading the letter during the City Council meeting: