CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Corpus Christi is not any stranger to meals vans. There are 213 meals vans all through the town. But how excessive are the well being requirements of those eating places on wheels? 3NEWS spoke with the town’s well being division and native restaurant proprietor, Anthony Perez, who additionally has expertise operating a meals truck.

Some folks could really feel cell meals truck models aren’t as clear as brick-and-mortar eating places.

Restaurant proprietor of El Taino: Puerto Rican Cuisine & Desserts, Anthony Perez stated, “I would say it’s the opposite. I find the trailers a little more cleaner, especially if the personnel running the trailers are clean.”

Anthony Perez has had his brick-and-mortar restaurant, El Taino since November. But his dream started on wheels.

“It started from the house and a good friend of mine had offered to assist us in getting our trailer, so that’s how we got ours,” Perez stated.

A yr and a half in the past, Perez and his spouse hit the pavement with their meals truck. Perez says the foot visitors for the restaurant has been fairly good.

“Really good really, all of our regulars,” Perez said. They’ve followed us, we’ve picked up new regulars.”

But to be able to have common prospects, the standard of meals must be on level.

“Just keep things at temp, it’s basically that simple,” Perez stated.

Manuel Garcia with Environmental & Consumer Health Services says in comparison with eating places, cell meals models are a lot simpler to keep up.

“The same inspection that’s used in a restaurant is also the same for a mobile unit,” Garcia stated. “What you bought to consider is the place in order that they have to scrub? It’s a small little unit. There’s not a lot there to scrub.”

There’s no eating space or restrooms to maintain tidy.

“For somebody to come back up and say, they’re dirtier than a daily restaurant is pure delusion,” Garcia said. “They’re not.”

Permits for brand spanking new cell models should undergo the fireplace marshal.

“Basically, so it’s not gonna explode or something like that,” Garcia stated.

But how does the well being division maintain tabs on who’s maintaining with yearly inspections? Through the colour and yr represented on permits.

“So when the public sees this blue sticker, they know they’ve been inspected already,” Garcia stated.

Before submitting the paperwork, permits and inspections to start out a meals truck enterprise, Anthony Perez says it’s important to possess the drive to make it profitable.

“If you have the economic means, I would just take the leap,” Perez stated.