Late-night food truck proposed for Elk Avenue to satiate night owls

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The Crested Butte town staff will investigate the pros and cons of allowing a business to sell its wares from a food truck parked on Elk Avenue during the wee hours of Crested Butte late nights and early mornings.

Businessman Chris Sullivan approached the Town Council at the January 17 meeting to make the request. He is part owner of the Mountain Oven Bakery that operates out of the Montanya Distillers building.
“We want to present the idea of late-night food vending,” he said. “We want to offer an alternative to drinking past 10 p.m.”
Sullivan explained that his business purchased the mobile food truck from Smokin’ Js BBQ. “It offers us the potential to sell late-night food.”
Under the business idea, Sullivan said, the truck would be parked on Elk Avenue between Second and Third Streets and would be open between 10 p.m. and 2:30 a.m.
“We visited a lot of the businesses on Elk Avenue,” Sullivan explained. “We have had great support. Twenty-nine businesses support the idea and most had no problem with us parking the truck in front of their business. One business didn’t like the idea. That was the Brick.”
The town would have to adjust its vending regulations and look at the idea of allowing commerce to take place on town property.
Sullivan asked if the council would consider looking at the request and putting it on a future agenda. Mayor Aaron Huckstep asked the staff to investigate the pros and cons and take it under advisement.