What permits do you need to open a food truck in West Jordan?

There is no single figure, and any site quoting one is rounding away the part that matters. Of the 12 records listed for a food truck in West Jordan, UT, 8 apply to every business of this type and 4 are conditional. Adding every fee on the page together would overstate what most operators pay, because it would include permits they never need.

Of the 8 that always apply, 1 carry a flat fee, coming to $85.00. That is a floor, not a total. 5 of the 12 are charged as a range or a formula set by the issuing agency, and 3 have no fee published at all. The ones that vary:

General Business Licence: A single flat 'Business' category, expressly captioned 'not to exceed $2,000' on the fee schedule: a $163/year base fee plus $8/year per employee (capped in total at $2,000), plus a separate one-time, nonrefundable $55 application fee. This is the only category that applies to nine of this project's ten tracked industries — the fee schedule's other named Business Licensing categories (Home Occupation, Alcohol Licensing, Pawn Shops, Rental Dwelling Units, Solicitor, Sexually Oriented Business, Vending Machine, and Vendor License) do not match a restaurant, retailer, contractor, childcare centre, salon, fitness studio, veterinary clinic or ordinary auto-repair shop; a food truck is the one exception, recorded separately below.

Vendor Licence — Food Truck: Food Truck: $178/year, plus a separate Food Truck Secondary Permit at $21. This is distinct from the fee schedule's own 'Large Vendor' ($249) and 'Small Vendor' ($182) categories, which this file reads as covering non-food mobile vendors rather than food trucks specifically.

Commercial Business Fire Inspection: The fee schedule's own table is internally contradictory as of this file's retrieval date. It lists a 'Commercial Bi-Annual Business Inspection' (charged every two years), by employee count: 0-10 employees $88, 11-50 employees $242, more than 50 employees $330 — each figure carrying a parenthetical stating it 'will revert to $44 / $121 / $165 January 1, 2026' when the inspection itself reverts from a two-year to an annual cycle. That reversion date has already passed as of this document's own 'Updated June 23, 2026' revision, which still prints the higher, bi-annual figures as current without updating the now-past-tense reversion language. Which set of figures — and which billing frequency — is actually in effect today could not be determined from the published schedule alone. A 2nd re-inspection after an initial violation is free; a 3rd and subsequent re-inspection is $175 each; inspection reports are $15 each.

Mobile Food Service (Food Truck) Permit: Food Truck Permit Tier 1: $350/year; Tier 2: $500/year. A new or remodeled mobile unit separately owes a $755 plan review fee (Mobile Food Cart, Truck, Trailer). A separate Food Cart Permit (for carts and shaved-ice stands rather than trucks/trailers) is priced by risk level instead: Risk Level 1 $230, Level 2 $275, Level 3 $385.

Food Handler Card: Fee set by the training provider and the local health department — not independently confirmed here

Permits for a food truck in West Jordan, UT come from 6 separate offices: City of West Jordan Finance Department, Business Licensing Division, West Jordan Fire Department, Salt Lake County Health Department, Environmental Health Division (Food Protection Bureau), Utah Division of Corporations and Commercial Code, Utah State Tax Commission, Utah Department of Agriculture and Food, Regulatory Services Division. No single office issues them all, which is why an opening means filing in several places rather than one.

• City of West Jordan Finance Department, Business Licensing DivisionIssues 2 permits on this page: General Business Licence, Vendor Licence — Food Truck8000 South Redwood Road, West Jordan, UT 84088 · (801) 569-5010westjordan.utah.gov/business-licensing
• West Jordan Fire DepartmentIssues 2 permits on this page: Commercial Business Fire Inspection, Food Truck / Mobile Food Vendor Fire Inspection7602 S. Jordan Landing Blvd., West Jordan, UT 84084 · (801) 840-4000www.westjordan.utah.gov/fire
• Salt Lake County Health Department, Environmental Health Division (Food Protection Bureau)Issues 1 permit on this page: Mobile Food Service (Food Truck) Permit788 East Woodoak Lane (5380 South), Murray, UT 84107 · (385) 468-3845www.saltlakecounty.gov/health/food-protection
• Utah Division of Corporations and Commercial CodeIssues 4 permits on this page: General Business Licence (not required by Utah), Certificate of Organization (LLC), Articles of Incorporation, Annual Renewal160 East 300 South, Salt Lake City, UT 84111 · (801) 530-4849corporations.utah.gov
• Utah State Tax CommissionIssues 1 permit on this page: Sales and Use Tax Licence210 North 1950 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84134 · (801) 297-2200tax.utah.gov
• Utah Department of Agriculture and Food, Regulatory Services DivisionIssues 2 permits on this page: Food Service Establishment Permit (local, not state), Food Handler Card4315 South 2700 West, Taylorsville, UT 84129 · (385) 332-1499ag.utah.gov/regulatory-services/retail-food-regulatory-program

Mandatory for any person engaging in business within city limits (Ord. 23-25, § 4-1B-1). Zoning, Building & Safety and Fire Department sign-off are all required before a licence issues, per the city's own Commercial Business License checklist. A building contractor with no retail sales and no actual business location in the city is exempt from paying this fee (though must still apply) under § 4-1B-19.A — see the separate contractor record below for the full condition. Insurance companies paying state licence fees and nonprofit/charitable organizations are also fee-exempt under the same section. The city's own checklist still lists a $53 application fee, which is stale — the current fee schedule's $55 figure is used here.

This is the city's own licence to operate the vehicle as a business. It is required on top of both the Salt Lake County Health Department's separate Mobile Food Service Permit (food-safety side, recorded below) and the West Jordan Fire Department's own Food Truck / Mobile Food Vendor inspection fee (recorded below) — a West Jordan food truck operator faces three separate fee-bearing touchpoints across three different agencies.

A center-based (commercial) childcare facility is billed under these same employee-count tiers, not the separate $44 Home Childcare Facility line recorded below, which this file's research could only confirm applies to home-based daycare.

The Fire Department's own inspection fee for a food truck, distinct from both the city's Vendor License (Business Licensing, recorded above) and the Salt Lake County Health Department's separate Mobile Food Service Permit (recorded below) — a third, independent fee-bearing requirement for the same vehicle.

Requires attending a Mobile Food Service Class, a signed Commissary Agreement (a residential kitchen is not allowed), and a Restroom Agreement, all completed before the plan review stage. This is the food-safety half of a West Jordan food truck's requirements, required on top of both the city's own Vendor License (Food Truck) and the Fire Department's own mobile-food inspection fee, both recorded above.

No fee, because Utah's state-level structure is entity registration rather than business licensing — the Division of Corporations frames the question as whether another unit of government requires registration, not as a licence the state itself grants for the right to operate. A city or county licence is the thing that actually functions as a general business licence for most Utah businesses.

Fifty-nine dollars, the same figure whether the entity is domestic or registering in from out of state. A corporation costs the identical $59 to form.

The same $59 as an LLC, and a nonprofit corporation costs the same again.

Eighteen dollars a year, the same figure for an LLC or a corporation, due in the entity's own anniversary month rather than a single date shared statewide. Missing it is not immediately fatal: the statute gives sixty days from the division's notice to cure before administrative dissolution follows, and reinstating after dissolution costs $54 for an LLC or a corporation. A dissolved entity's name, and any assumed names filed under it, cannot be reused by anyone else for two years afterward.

No fee — the state's own combined business and tax registration form lists a line for the sales and use tax licence alongside every other tax account a business might need, and nowhere on the form does a dollar amount attach to it. Once registered, a business is assigned a filing cycle, monthly, quarterly or annual, and must file on that cycle even in a period with no sales.

No state fee, because a food establishment engaged primarily in service for immediate consumption is placed by the state agriculture department's own published guidance under the jurisdiction of the local health department where it operates, not under the state's own retail food registration. Utah has thirteen local health department jurisdictions, each setting its own fee under a shared statewide minimum sanitation standard. Confirm the figure with the specific local health department rather than assuming a statewide number, because none exists.

A food handler card is required, and it must come from a provider on the state's own approved list — the agriculture department publishes that list directly and states plainly that a card from an unapproved source will not be accepted by a local health department. What is not recorded here as confirmed fact is a specific dollar figure or validity period: both a roughly $15 fee and a three-year term are widely repeated online, but neither could be verified against the rule's own text, so no number is asserted here. Confirm the current fee and term with a specific approved provider or the local health department before budgeting for it.