For Nevada food trucks and carts
Your food truck commissary log, a few taps a night.
The commissary visit, the water tanks and the cooler readings, typed in by your crew in a few taps in the phone's browser. Ready when an inspector asks.
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Saturday, 9:10 pm
Why is the paperwork
always last?
You opened to feed people, not to chase clipboards.
- A commissary agreement, water tanks, a route sheet every month, papers on the truck: in Clark County, SNHD's truck chapter is its own rulebook.
- You are cooking, serving and driving. At 9 pm at the commissary, with greasy hands and a phone nearly dead, the commissary line is the last thing you write. Or the thing you skip.
See a sample night's two switches before you decide anything.
What Nevada asks
What does Nevada's truck rule
actually list?
Nevada law makes a truck a food establishment: it needs a permit before it sells food (NRS 580). In Clark County, SNHD adds its own truck chapter. Each rule below says where it comes from, and where your county differs.
Food truck health permit
A food truck is a food establishment, so it needs a permit from the health authority before it sells food.
NRS 580.050(1), 580.900(1)
Does your county differ? 1 of Nevada's 5 health departments do
Nevada law: a food truck is a food establishment and needs a permit. SNHD: a commissary agreement, a route sheet every month, a fresh-water tank of at least 40 gallons, no cooling on the truck, and no more than 4 hours at one spot (1 hour where staff have no restroom). SNHD 2023 Food Regulations 10-101(J), 10-102.2(E), 10-201, 10-301(A)
Hot and cold holding
Hot 135°F or above and cold 41°F or below, except a whole roast cooked on the roast chart (130°F or above, not on a food truck), raw shell eggs (the air around them 45°F or below) and food marked under time control (Food Code 3-501.19, 4 hours, not on a food truck). Food carried to an event is probed at loading and on arrival.
Nevada: NAC 446.178, NAC 446.182
Guide: Hot and cold holdingCooling
135°F to 70°F within 2 hours, then to 41°F within 6 hours total.
Nevada: NAC 446.176, NAC 446.177
Guide: Cooling food in two stagesHandwashing
The FDA Food Code (model) says: Wash hands and forearms 20 seconds at a handwashing sink only; double wash after the restroom; sanitizer never replaces washing. Here the law differs: lists when to wash, including after the restroom; no double wash (NAC 446.063).
Nevada: NAC 446.062, NAC 446.063, NAC 446.064, NAC 446.066, NAC 446.423
Guide: Handwashing
What else can the inspector check? 4 more rules
Employee health: report, exclude, restrict
The FDA Food Code (model) says: Food workers report vomiting, diarrhea, jaundice, sore throat with fever, pus-filled sores, Big 6 diagnoses and exposures; the person in charge excludes or restricts. Here the law differs: the person in charge tells the health authority within 24 hours (NAC 446.056(1)(c)); no sore throat with fever and no exclusion or restriction for exposure (NAC 446.056).
Nevada: NAC 446.056(1)(c), NAC 446.057
Guide: Sick workers: report it and stay homeFood handler card
Nevada has no statewide food handler card. Your health district can require one.
NRS 580; NAC 446 (no card requirement found)
Guide: Food handler cards and food safety managersDoes your county differ? 1 of Nevada's 5 health departments do
Nevada law: no statewide food handler card. SNHD: every food handler needs an SNHD Food Handler Safety Training Card before starting work; it lasts 3 years. SNHD 2023 Food Regulations 2-601(A)
Cleaning and sanitizing
Wash, rinse, sanitize, air-dry. Chlorine 50–99 ppm 10 s; quat per label 30 s; hot water 171°F 30 s. Test kit on site.
Nevada: NAC 446.328, NAC 446.254, NAC 446.314, NAC 446.303, NAC 446.364, NAC 446.381
Guide: Cleaning vs sanitizing, and sanitizer strengthsAccurate thermometers
Food thermometers accurate to ±2°F; calibrate by ice point (32°F).
Nevada: NAC 446.234, NAC 446.233
Guide: Thermometers and calibration
See what your crew taps in one night.
Clark County
What does SNHD ask
of a Las Vegas truck?
In Clark County the Southern Nevada Health District's 2023 Food Regulations are the rule. These are the lines that change your night.
- A commissary service agreement that says its hours and what it provides (SNHD 10-101(J)).
- A route sheet to the health district every month, and records kept 90 days (SNHD 10-301).
- A fresh-water tank of at least 40 gallons for the three-compartment sink and the hand sink (SNHD 10-102.2(E)). Built in, with a level indicator and an automatic pump.
- No cooling of hot food on the truck (SNHD 10-201). No more than 4 hours at one spot, or 1 hour where your staff have no restroom. No tables or chairs. No open hot-or-cold food left overnight.
- Washoe County and the Department of Agriculture's counties: we have not read their truck details line by line. The app says so and names your office to ask.
- Every SNHD truck rule above, quoted word for word: Las Vegas food truck rules. Starting out? The Nevada opening guide has the permit steps in order.
The app keeps the commissary lines and the 90 days in one PDF, so the records are not one more job at midnight.
Set up
How do I get my
crew on it?
Three steps, and the first one is a single tap.
Pick Food truck or cart
The app adds the truck's own lines: commissary visits and water tanks.
Text your crew a link
They open it in their phone's browser, check in and type the cooler reading. Your phone sends the text. We don't.
Get one PDF
Every reading and every commissary line is saved with the time and who wrote it. The binder is one PDF.
See the closing screen before you set anything up.
A service day
What does a service day
look like?
In Clark County you cool hot food at the commissary, never on the truck. Open the app and it shows what is still open.
Check in
The answer is
OK to work
orNo food work today
.Water
Fresh water in, waste water out
is on the list every shift.Hold it right
Hot at 135°F or above, cold at 41°F or below (NAC 446.178). Type the cooler reading as you go; a warm one asks what you did before it saves. In Clark County, four hours at one spot, then you move.
The commissary visit
One line: date, time in, time out, what was done, initials. Saved with your name.
Every step here is already on your list the day you sign up.
The cost of a gap
What if the record
has holes?
SNHD asks you to keep the commissary records 90 days, and the route sheet goes in every month.
Two switches a shift and one line at closing keep the 90 days complete, and the binder prints them as one PDF.
Why not take a few demerits?
A few demerits cost little.
An easier night is worth more.
A few demerits will not close you, so that is not the reason. The reason is 9:10 pm with greasy hands.
- Two water switches a shift and one line at close, on the phone in your apron. The app says what is next, so nothing waits for memory at the end of a long night.
- Your name is on every reading, and a reading counts the same whether it passes or not. On inspection day, one PDF, and you are back on the griddle.
- An inspection is a snapshot. In Clark County it becomes a grade online about 5 business days later. A is 0 to 10 demerits, B is 11 to 20, C is 21 to 40. Your records show every service day. Each cooler reading and each commissary line has the time and your name, and a photo where it helps. The binder is one PDF with its own fingerprint. That is proof you can show, not a promise. SNHD grades; we don't.
A few taps a night, on the phone you already carry. Count them in the demo.
After service
Serve the line.
The record is a few taps away.
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Questions
Before you
start.
What goes in the commissary log?
One line each time the truck is at the commissary: date, time in, time out, what was done and initials. In Clark County, SNHD asks for a commissary service agreement with its hours and services, a route sheet every month, and records kept 90 days. The binder starts at the last 90 days.
Can we cool food on the truck?
Not in Clark County: SNHD's truck chapter says no cooling of hot food on the unit (SNHD 10-201). Cool it at the commissary. We have not read Washoe County's or NAC 446's truck sections line by line, so ask your office there.
How big does the water tank have to be?
In Clark County, the fresh-water tank is at least 40 gallons for the three-compartment sink and the hand sink (SNHD 10-102.2(E)). It is built in, with an electronic level indicator and an automatic pump. A low-risk unit may be approved at 15. Elsewhere in Nevada we have not read the number, so ask your office.
How long can I park at one spot?
In Clark County, no more than 4 hours at one location, unless an event or site permit says otherwise. No more than 1 hour where your staff have no restroom. No tables or chairs (SNHD 10-201).
Does my crew need a food handler card?
Nevada has no statewide card. In Clark County, every food handler needs an SNHD Food Handler Safety Training Card before starting work; it lasts 3 years. Washoe County's regulation has no card requirement. The app keeps each card and its expiry date on file.
I'm the only one on the truck. Who is the person in charge when I'm sick?
You are. The sick report tells you what the rule asks, no food work that day, and the report is saved. In Nevada the person in charge tells the health authority within 24 hours (NAC 446.056). That covers jaundice, or a diagnosed Salmonella, Shigella, E. coli (STEC), hepatitis A or norovirus. With nobody else on the team, the step is yours to follow.
Do I need a laptop?
No. It runs in your phone's browser.
What does a two-person truck pay?
One or two people is the Solo plan, $8 per location per month. The 25 free days start when you add a card on Stripe's page. Cancel before they end and you pay nothing. 25 days free. Cancel anytime.
Will the app remind us to write the cooler reading?
Not by text. In a browser, yes, once you say yes when the app asks. Open the app and the list shows what is due and what is late.
Your binder is ready when the inspector is.
Pick your place. Start with one shift.
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