Every city has its own rules. Every permit has its own clock. Most operators find out they missed one the hard way.
CurbKettle is a compliance subscription built exclusively for food truck operators. We track your permits, watch your deadlines, monitor regulatory changes across your operating cities, and prepare your renewal forms with your business details already filled in. You get a clear status board, not a pile of calendar reminders.
Permit Tracking
Every active permit, license, and agreement in one status board. Color-coded expiration countdowns so nothing slips past a busy lunch rush.
Regulatory Alerts
We monitor city and county regulatory feeds so you hear about new rules before they become compliance problems. Filtered to your operating locations.
Form Preparation
Renewal forms are prefilled with your business details, license numbers, and commissary information. You review and sign — we handle the rest.
What CurbKettle does
A compliance layer that works while you work the window
A permit board that stays current, not a spreadsheet you forget to update
Food truck compliance spans four distinct permit types — health department, fire safety, city business license, and commissary agreement — each issued by a different authority, each on its own renewal cycle. Miss one and you get a shutdown notice, not a warning.
CurbKettle holds every permit in one status board, updated automatically. You see exactly which ones are current, which need attention within 30 days, and which are flagged for immediate action.
Health Dept. Permit
Travis County
City Business License
Austin, TX
Fire Safety Certificate
Austin Fire Dept.
Commissary Agreement
Food Works Commissary
Austin updates mobile food vendor permit fee schedule
Travis County extends grace period for commissary renewals
New fire suppression inspection requirement for enclosed trucks
Regulatory changes happen quietly. You find out when you are cited.
Cities amend food truck regulations, update fee schedules, and introduce new inspection requirements throughout the year. These notices are buried in government portals that no operator has time to check.
CurbKettle monitors the regulatory feeds relevant to your operating cities and surfaces every change that affects your permits. You get a plain-English alert with what changed and what it means for your operation.
Renewal forms, prefilled with your business details
Most renewal forms ask for the same information every year: your business name, EIN, commissary address, license numbers, insurance carrier. Locating and re-typing that information on every form costs hours of time you do not have.
CurbKettle holds your business profile and prefills every renewal form automatically. You review the completed form, make any changes needed, and sign. That is the entire process.
How it works
Set up once. CurbKettle handles it from there.
Connect your permits
Tell CurbKettle which cities you operate in and upload or enter your current permits. Takes about ten minutes.
We build your profile
We capture your business details, license numbers, commissary information, and renewal history into a single verified profile.
CurbKettle monitors everything
We track every deadline and every regulatory feed relevant to your operation, surfacing alerts before they become problems.
You review, sign, and roll
When a renewal is due, we send you a prefilled form for review. Sign it and we handle submission. No scrambling, no surprises.
Compliance is not a side task for operators who are already running a full kitchen, a truck, and a crew. It is a dedicated job. CurbKettle does that job.
Common questions
What operators ask before signing up
What types of permits does CurbKettle track?
CurbKettle tracks health department permits, city business licenses, fire safety certificates, and commissary agreements — the four permit types that food truck operators in the US most commonly deal with. Coverage varies by city; we support operators in most major US metro areas.
What happens when a permit is about to expire?
You receive a notification with a clear countdown and the specific action required. If the permit requires a renewal form, we will have that form prefilled with your business details ready for your review. We flag items that need immediate attention distinctly from those with 30 or more days remaining.
How do you find out about regulatory changes in my city?
We monitor the regulatory feeds and official publications of the cities and counties where you operate. When a city updates its mobile food vendor ordinance, changes a fee schedule, or introduces a new inspection requirement, we parse that change and send you a plain-English summary of what it means for your permits.
Do I have to do anything with the forms, or does CurbKettle handle everything?
CurbKettle prepares and prefills renewal forms using your business profile. You review the completed form, make any corrections, and sign it. The final sign-off is always yours — we handle all the preparation work so that step takes minutes, not an afternoon.
I operate in more than one city. Can CurbKettle track permits across multiple locations?
Yes. CurbKettle is designed for operators with multiple operating locations. Each location's permits are tracked separately, and you get a unified status board showing all permits across all cities in one place.
What if CurbKettle misses something? Am I still responsible?
You remain the permit holder and the legally responsible party — CurbKettle is a compliance management service, not a legal guarantor. That said, our service is built specifically around the detail-intensive task of tracking every deadline and regulatory change, so that the margin for things slipping through is as small as possible.
Compliance handled. Keep rolling.
Join food truck operators who stopped managing permits manually and started using the time for what they actually do.
Start my compliance subscriptionSet up takes about ten minutes. No permits required to get started.