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Food Truck Permits in Wyoming: Complete 2026 Guide

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Wyoming is one of the easier states for a food truck: low fees set in statute, no state income tax, and a market that loves a good truck at a rodeo, a fair or a brewery. It is also fragmented, because several counties run their own food programs. This guide was rewritten in October 2026 from the statute and the local health departments; an earlier version said licenses expire on 31 December and suggested you needed both a state and a local license, neither of which is right.

Plan review, handled. Before your county or state health office licenses a truck, it wants a plan review: the layout, the equipment list, and the water and wastewater plumbing. We provide the build documentation, plumbing schematics and equipment specs your health department asks for, and we build to pass the inspection the first time. Most of our Wyoming trucks are built at our Denver shop, Mile High Food Trucks. Call or text 719-722-2537.

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The license and who issues it

Under W.S. 35-7-124 you get a food license from the Wyoming Department of Agriculture or a local health department. It is $200 new and $100 to renew each year, a temporary food license is $50, and it runs one year from the date it is issued. It is not transferable. You need one license, not two: in Casper, for example, you apply through the Casper Natrona County Health Department, the fee is paid to the Department of Agriculture, and the state mails the license and renewals.

Local agencies with their own food programs include Casper and Natrona County, Cheyenne and Laramie County, Teton County, Sweetwater County, Sublette County and the City of Laramie. Everywhere else, the Department of Agriculture’s Consumer Health Services covers you.

Working in more than one county

Wyoming has no published statewide reciprocity rule for mobile units, and some local departments limit where their trucks go. Casper and Natrona County’s form says a commissary dependent unit it licenses will not be allowed to operate outside Natrona County. If you plan to work Cheyenne Frontier Days, the Sheridan rodeo or Jackson in summer, call each local health department before you book.

Plan review and the truck

Casper and Natrona County charge $125 for a mobile plan review. They require the commissary to be named on the application, pressurized water rather than gravity, and waste tanks 15 percent larger than fresh water. Trucks in Wyoming also need to survive the winter: we heat and insulate water lines and tanks on every Wyoming build.

Commissary and kitchen requirements

Wyoming’s food rule treats a commissary as a servicing area: the operating base a mobile unit returns to regularly for cleaning, discharging waste, refilling water tanks and ice bins, and loading food. Waste goes to an approved waste servicing station or a sewage transport vehicle, and a private home or living quarters may not be used for any part of the operation, so a home kitchen cannot be your commissary. Servicing areas need overhead protection, except where they are used only to load water or discharge sewage through closed hoses. Cheyenne and Laramie County’s mobile requirements let a self contained unit, one that carries all the equipment it needs and is not connected to fixed utilities, report to an approved servicing location instead of using a commissary kitchen, with a wastewater tank at least 15 percent larger than fresh water, dumped daily at an approved sewer. The state rule is still based on the 2009 FDA Food Code.

Managers and food handlers

The state rule does not require a certified food protection manager; the person in charge can show knowledge by following the rule, answering the inspector’s questions correctly, or voluntarily holding the certificate. Three local programs go further. Cheyenne and Laramie County‘s 2018 food safety rule requires a certified food protection manager at every establishment preparing temperature controlled food, and its mobile unit requirements say the person in charge must hold the certificate before opening, with prepackaged only units excluded; the department accepts any program on the ANAB accredited list rather than naming one. Casper and Natrona County adopted a similar rule in 2023, and Teton County requires a certified manager on site during operating hours at most establishments from 1 October 2026. We found no food handler card requirement in the state rule or in Laramie County’s rule.

City rules

Casper does not require a city health or business license for mobile units, but it does require a city fire inspection; the city council discussed a flat $25 vendor permit in 2026 in place of the per space fee, so check the current rule with the city. Cheyenne’s code keeps trucks 100 feet from a restaurant entrance without the owner’s written consent, 15 feet from hydrants, out of alleys and out of the right of way from 3 to 5 a.m., with downtown monthly parking at $60 and residential zones limited to private events. Laramie has historically barred vending in the city right of way. In Jackson the Town regulates trucks inside town limits and Jackson Hole Fire inspects them. Our city guides cover Cheyenne, Casper and the rest.

Sales tax

Wyoming’s state sales tax is 4 percent plus county tax. County rates change with voter approved specific purpose taxes: Natrona County is 5 percent combined, Sheridan County 6 percent, Sweetwater 6 percent and Teton 7 percent, while Albany County dropped to 5 percent in July 2026 and voters renewed its 1 percent tax in May. Check the Department of Revenue’s current rate chart for each county you work. Register with the Department of Revenue before your first sale.

Business setup

A Wyoming LLC costs $100 to file, and the annual report license tax is $60 or two hundredths of a cent per dollar of Wyoming assets, whichever is greater. Workers’ compensation runs through the state fund, and food service is a covered industry, so register once you hire.

In order

Find out whether your county runs its own food program. Line up a commissary. Submit plans, pass the inspection and get the license. Get the fire inspection your city requires. Register for sales tax. Then call ahead to every other county you plan to work.

Common Reasons Wyoming Food Trucks Fail Their First Inspection

We get called in to fix a lot of these. None of them are catastrophic. All are avoidable.

  • Handwash sink shared with food prep. Inspectors will fail this on sight.
  • Wastewater tank too small. The 15 percent rule is enforced. A 40 gallon fresh tank requires a minimum 46 gallon waste tank.
  • No commissary letter or letter from an unlicensed kitchen. Verify your commissary’s license number with the relevant authority before you submit.
  • Suppression system tag expired. Six months is the standard. Get on a calendar with your fire suppression contractor.
  • K class extinguisher missing or in the wrong location. NFPA 96 requires placement within 30 feet of the cookline, accessible without crossing the cookline.
  • Propane lines unprotected. Lines that pass under the floor or through wheel wells need additional protective sleeves and securing every 4 feet.
  • Generator vented into the prep area. Carbon monoxide concerns plus food contamination. Generator exhaust must vent away from windows and the food prep area.
  • No food protection manager on site. The “person in charge” has to be present when the unit is operating.
  • Cold holding equipment can’t make 41°F under load. Inspectors will check thermometers in the unit on a hot day. Undersized refrigeration is a common fail point.

On video: trucks we built for Wyoming

Read the video transcript: Sodexo Cheyenne
Hello and welcome to Mile High Custom Food Trucks. Today we have a beautiful 16 ft truck that we built for Soro uh that we're just about to ship. Let me show you its uh main features. Come on in. Uh so right in front here is the hand wash and the three compartment. This one's going to Cheyenne County, Wyoming. And they require this uh drain boats on the side for drying the dishes. Of course, uh it comes with the napkin and soap dispenser and the on demand water heater over there, propane water heater. And right at the bottom is the fire extinguisher, ABC fire extinguisher and uh the various plumbing um the water pump and uh little ball valve for draining the water um in case of hard freezes. The hoses that we use are all UL listed so it doesn't chafe or break um due to sunlight or due to washing. All the gas burning in this and all the trucks and trailers that we built are under the floors of the truck. So in case there is a leak at the TE's and unions the gas it spills outside the truck and there is no explosion or or fire inside the truck. Um as the gray water tank it's 42 gallons. This is a three pan steam table and this is a refrigerator. This truck is going to do uh rice bowls, soups, ramen bowls and uh that kind of stuff which is why they need um steam tables. This is a combi oven. Um you can actually cook steak in it if you want to. Uh of course we have done the this requires water and the water plumbing for that is under the under the oven itself. uh it requires LP as well. Again, you can see the LP hoses over there. All pieces of equipment inside this truck and everything else that we build are of course bolted to the floor as well as to the walls. When we bolted to the floor, we use washes so it doesn't shake loose during transport. This is a hot holding cabinet to store burritos and that kind of stuff, breakfast burritos and kind of stuff. This is a self-closing window. This is required by code uh both in this county and elsewhere. Uh the idea is that the awning door that opens and then it's got this plexiglass windows which prop up and then when you're actually taking money or passing the product out, you just lift pass the product and it self closes. Little table over here for the PO station to receive orders. um wiring of course uh all the wiring that we do is inside conduits. This is done so that what happens is that walls of the of a food truck or a trailer, they're not waterproof. They're water resistant so to speak because it's not like wrapped in ty like a house. So water can get in and it can damage wiring. So we put them in these conduits so there is easy access to wiring and they are well protected. Tons of outlets everywhere uh to connect microwaves or P stations or any other piece of equipment that you need. Little sandwich prep over here. This is a 36 in sandwich. This over here is a junction box transfer box actually. So this truck has both generator power as well as shore power. So to switch from utility supply to generator supply, all you needed is to pull this to the side. Um this is the the junction box. Every piece of equipment inside this truck has its own outlets and they're all individually marked. This is done so that in case let's say this tube fails or the the or any other piece of equipment fails, it does not take any other uh any other equipment. Um, this is the generator box with a little remote for the Cumins generator. This has a Cumins 7,000 W uh gasoline generator. Although this is a diesel diesel truck, this is a freezer. Um, you can see it's already at -1 Fahrenheit. 36 in griddle and the two burner stuff. Um, and a chef base. Chef base is a kind of an under counter refrigerator. Um so to to enable really fast cooking. You can store your meats here, pick it up, cross it will cook it up and pass out. That's a 8ft hood with an fire suppression. And uh it has its own speed control. So in the summer you can turn it all the way high and in the winter you can keep it low. So this way you can ventilate this truck quite well. Talking about ventilation, this also has AC with heat. Uh so in case of a hard freeze, you don't have to completely drain all the water in the truck. Um you can just set this to 60 and then the truck will stay warm and that means it will freeze. Uh moving forward uh the Ansel fire suppression of course uh we really like using Anel especially because food trucks sometimes what happens is that they hit a hump and uh the fire suppression automatically deploys. Um never had that problem with Anel. I think that oh uh one last thing this is a TV box. Uh inside this is a TV menu display. It has its own awning and uh that is a HDMI cable over here so you can connect to a laptop and display your menu outside. We'll show you outside when we when we head out. Um, LED lights inside and out. Um, and uh, all stainless construction. The cooking wall is required to be all stainless. Uh, the rest can be a non-porous material. But this particular truck, it's stainless all all around and uh, diamond plate, aluminum diamond plate on the floor. That's about it on the inside and we'll show you on the outside. Uh outside on this uh 16 foot truck that we're shipping out to Cheyenne. On the outside here is the on for the 5T self-closing window. And this is how you fill water. You open this, put in the garden hose, and that fills the fan up. And to drain the water, you just pull a spudger and the water will come down. You can, of course, add a a 3-in hose to take it down to the dump. And this right here is the on for the TV box. The TV display. All the keys in this are matched. Every single key for this and for the generator are the outside here is just the LED outside lights and of course the beautiful wrap that's around it. This truck was built on a a Freight Liner chassis. This is how you fill propane. So, this this truck has a belly tank. So, what you do is you open this thing and it drops here once and then uh you put in your propane line over here. After you're done, it closes back up and uh that's it. On top right there is the 1500 CFM exhaust fan and it also has a little drain pan. So, these run down the side of the truck. This is the generator box housing the 7,000 W commence gasoline generator. inside. This is the the the fuel tank for the the gasoline engine on the generator. That's why because this truck is also the tail pipe. And last, this is the show. There's a man door in the back as well. get in and out of get in and out of this truck. That brings that brings us to the end of of the 16T truck that we live for. So, and thank you.
Walkthrough of the 16ft hospital food truck, Cheyenne.
Walkthrough of the 20ft jerk chicken truck with a charcoal porch, Laramie.
Walkthrough of the 14ft food trailer for the ski slopes, Jackson Hole.

Frequently asked questions

How much is a food truck license in Wyoming?

The statutory food license is $200 new and $100 to renew each year, and a temporary food license is $50. It runs one year from the date it is issued, not to 31 December.

Who issues the license in Wyoming?

The Wyoming Department of Agriculture or a local health department. Casper and Natrona County, Cheyenne and Laramie County, Teton County, Sweetwater, Sublette and the City of Laramie run their own food programs. In Casper you apply through the county health department and the state issues the license.

Can a Wyoming food truck work in other counties?

Ask each local health department. Casper and Natrona County, for example, will not let a commissary dependent unit it licenses operate outside the county. There is no published statewide reciprocity.

Does Wyoming require a certified food manager?

Not statewide. Casper and Natrona County adopted a local rule requiring one, and Teton County requires a certified manager on site during operating hours from 1 October 2026.

What sales tax does a Wyoming food truck charge?

4 percent state plus county tax, so 5 to 7 percent depending on the county: 5 percent in Natrona, 6 percent in Sheridan and Sweetwater, 7 percent in Teton. Rates change when voters approve or end a specific purpose tax, so check the state rate chart.

Do I need a certified food manager for a food truck in Laramie County?

Yes. Cheyenne and Laramie County require the person in charge of a mobile unit to hold a Food Protection Manager Certification before opening, unless the unit sells only prepackaged food. Any program on the ANAB accredited list is accepted. We found no food handler card requirement.

Can I use my home kitchen as a commissary in Wyoming?

No. The state food rule bars using a private home or living quarters for any part of a food operation. Your servicing area has to be an approved location, and a self contained truck can report to an approved servicing location instead of a commissary kitchen.

Related guides

Cheyenne · Casper · Laramie · Gillette · Rock Springs · Sheridan · Jackson

Our Denver shop, Mile High Food Trucks, builds most of our Wyoming trucks and has a page for each town: Cheyenne, Casper, Laramie, Gillette, Rock Springs, Sheridan, Jackson.

Building a truck for Wyoming

We build every truck to pass the plan review, the health inspection and the fire inspection on the first visit: a Type I hood with suppression installed by a licensed company, a three compartment sink and a hand sink with hot water, tanks sized for a full day, and propane in secured cylinders with a detector. Recent Wyoming deliveries include a sourdough donut trailer in Casper and a tempura trailer in Lander. Custom food trucks start at $55,000 and trailers at $40,000. Call or text 719-722-2537 with your menu and where you plan to sell.

Jacob Varghese
Zion Foodtrucks
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Written & reviewed by the Zion Foodtrucks build team

Zion Foodtrucks builds custom food trucks, trailers, and concession trailers from our shop in Monument, Colorado and delivers them ready to pass inspection across the Mountain West. Owner Jacob Varghese and our team work with first-time owners every day, sourcing the vehicle and handling the full build so you do not have to. Questions about permits or your build? Call or text Jacob at 719-722-2537 or see our custom build services.

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