Food Carts - OLCC worthy?

[Nate Dogg]

My basic take is, you need a food handlers card to serve and prep food. Why can't these portable carts serve liquor (beer / wine) as there is a temporary fence around the area? Food is being served just like a restaurant or bar.

The city of Portland is suing the Oregon Liquor Control Commission in Multnomah County Circuit Court over new guidelines that say food carts can have liquor licenses.

The OLCC granted its first permanent liquor license to a food cart in March when it gave the go-ahead to Cartlandia -- a food cart pod in Southeast Portland. Cartlandia now serves beer and wine from one cart and allows people to drink it in a designated area.

The OLCC was acting on legal advice by the Oregon Department of Justice that the OLCC had to treat food carts the same as brick-and-mortar restaurants.

Source: http://blog.oregonlive.com/portlandcityhall/2012/05/portland_sues_oregon_liquor_co.html

As much as the OLCC is strict in many areas, this is another way of the state getting money for issuing OLCC permits.

 

[BLAZER PROPHET]

I don't have a problem with it.

 

[Eastoff]

uhh they can and they do. The first I know about is across from the Original Pok Pok. There is another one in NE that I can't remember the location of at the moment. Prost on Mississippi will let you bring food cart food onto their biergarten patio.

edit: I see now there is some new issue about this.
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[The_Lillard_King]

If I can get a beer with my food cart lunch, I'm all for it.

Give them all permits!