AUGUSTA, Ga. (WJBF) – A brand new Georgia regulation might assist some meals truck house owners within the CSRA and throughout the state serve their clients with out all the effort of paperwork.
Whether or not you are grabbing a fast lunch or stopping by for an early dinner, meals vans ship meals to individuals the place they’re, at work, or on the go. And the proprietor of Ok’s Buffalo Wings, Kothenia Mantey, informed us that she cooks precisely what clients need.
“I serve the very best hen wings in Augusta,” Mantey stated. “I’ve the very best loaded baked potatoes. I’ve obtained hen tenders, loaded fries, buffalo fries.”
And beginning Jan. 1, Mantey can take his Augusta-based wings and stuff to any of Georgia’s 159 counties. A brand new state regulation, Home Invoice 1443, provides her the inexperienced gentle to go cell, with out all of the well being division hassles she and different meals truck house owners have handled previously.
“He was required to acquire a allow and inspection in each county the place he did enterprise,” stated Tony Harrison, president of the Georgia Meals Truck Affiliation.
The change means much less frustration for Mantey and plenty of others with cell eating places.
He added: “If you’re able to exit, you do not have to undergo all of the crimson tape now.”
The Meals Truck Affiliation of Georgia experiences that almost all cell eating places function in a number of counties. Which means, in some instances, as much as 20 completely different permits and inspections. Now, there’s something like a state allow to make life simpler.
“There’s now a database that permits county well being inspectors to go in, search, and guarantee that these vans are allowed in a county, have been inspected, and are working so as.”
It is also a win for Slutty Vegan. The favored Atlanta-based vegan burger, fries and cake restaurant is at the moment on tour. And their Backyard Metropolis cease, full with an extended line of excited clients down fifth and Broad Road, comes with out all of the crimson tape.
“It is a price financial savings too. Clearly, now we have our allow, our commissary, and our base of operations. However having the ability to freely transfer to different counties with out going by means of that course of has saved some huge cash and a variety of time as nicely,” stated Joi Alexander, nationwide director of gross sales and catering for Slutty Vegan.
Tony Harrison of the Georgia Meals Truck Affiliation stated that with the brand new regulation, there’s a big improve within the variety of meals vans opening. Domestically, clients can try Ok’s in different counties.
“I all the time wished to go to Atlanta and do some occasions,” Mantey stated.
And Slutty Vegan might make extra returns to the CSRA.
“Possibly. Presumably. We’ll see,” Alexander laughed.