The City of Nanaimo unveiled a food truck calendar to ease the registration process for operators, City staff, as well as provide public information (Ian Holmes/NanaimoNewsNOW)

By Ian Holmes

Truckin' delicious

Nanaimo Food truck location calendar goes live

Aug 10, 2025 | 5:35 AM

NANAIMO — A new online calendar is dishing up dates of where Nanaimo’s food trucks will be set up.

On Aug. 1, the City of Nanaimo debuted its Food Truck Scheduling Calendar at Nanaimo.ca/foodtruck, which takes the guess work out of where Nanaimo’s various meals on wheels will be.

Replacing a food vender booking system managed and maintained solely by City of Nanaimo staff, the new publicly accessible portal states what food trucks will be set up and where, several weeks in advance.

A filter allows users to select specific food trucks among nine public park locations.

There are currently 37 licensed food trucks and trailers operating in Nanaimo, with many participating in the seasonal Commercial Street Night Market. (Jordan Davidson/NanaimoNewsNOW)

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Heidi Davidson, permit centre and business licensing manager for the City of Nanaimo, stated previously food truck would email their placement requests on the first business day of each month, requiring back-and-forth communication to assist vendors.

“The new calendar was developed to alleviate this time-consuming process and to provide vendors more autonomy. With the new calendar, vendors have the ability to book themselves into designated locations in 2-hour increments, change or cancel bookings,” Davidson wrote in a statement to NanaimoNewsNOW.

There are currently 37 licensed food trucks and trailers conducting business in Nanaimo, Davidson noted, of which she stated four operate on private property, such as outside large shopping centres.

Currently, the City’s food truck scheduling tool shows listings through the end of September.

Screen grab of the scheduled Friday, Aug. 15 food truck lineup in Nanaimo. Maffeo Sutton Park will be well served as thousands of people will be on the waterfront of the Canadian Snowbirds demonstration for the evening show. (City of Nanaimo)

Maffeo Sutton Park is one of nine designated public park locations for food trucks to operate. (Ian Holmes/NanaimoNewsNOW)

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