Concession Trailers Across the Bay Area
Custom-built concession trailers delivered from our Sacramento yard to every Bay Area county, carrying the California HCD insignia and county-ready compliance blueprints so you can pull a permit wherever you park.
The Bay Area runs on mobile food, and it does not run on one rulebook. From the Friday-night lineup at Off the Grid in Fort Mason to the daily crowds at SoMa StrEat Food Park and Spark Social in Mission Bay, a working trailer here has to be tight, clean, and built to pass inspection in whichever county you operate. 916 Concession builds that trailer in Sacramento and hauls it west to you. We handle the build, the California HCD insignia that certifies the unit under Title 25, and the compliance blueprints your county Environmental Health reviewer will want to see. You bring the menu and the location decisions; we carry the steel, the plumbing, the panel, and the paperwork that follows the unit out the door.
Concession trailers
Custom-built shells and full build-outs, HCD-certified, sized to your menu.
Compliance blueprints
County-ready plan sets for the health department plan-check.
Permits & HCD
HCD insignia, Title 25, and the DMV path — temp tags first, then plates by mail.
Websites
A site that gets your new unit found online.
A Region Built for Mobile Food
Few markets in the country reward a sharp trailer the way the Bay Area does. Off the Grid kicked off the modern food-truck market at Fort Mason and now runs satellite lineups at Lake Merritt by the Oakland Museum and out to Pleasant Hill, Foster City, and Sunnyvale. SoMa StrEat Food Park keeps a daily roster, Spark Social SF anchors Mission Bay, and the Alameda County Fairgrounds in Pleasanton draws steady event traffic. Each of these venues has its own footprint, power situation, and approach to spacing. We build with that variety in mind, so your unit fits the curbside slot in San Francisco and the open lot in Pleasanton without a scramble.
Two Approvals, and the Multi-County Wrinkle
There are two separate sign-offs on a Bay Area trailer, and knowing which is whose saves you weeks. The first is the California HCD insignia, the state certification of the physical unit under Title 25 covering construction, plumbing, and electrical. That is our job, and it is the same standard statewide, so an insignia issued for a trailer headed to San Jose is the same one we secure for a trailer headed to San Rafael. The second is your Mobile Food Facility permit, and here the Bay Area gets its own twist: there is no single regional health department. San Francisco, Alameda, Santa Clara, San Mateo, Contra Costa, Marin, Solano, Sonoma, and Napa each run their own Environmental Health division and issue their own MFF permit. You file with the county where you will operate, and you confirm the specifics with that county. We do not file that permit for you. What we hand you is a set of blueprints built to the standard so your reviewer sees a clean three-compartment sink, a separate handwash sink, proper water and waste tanks, and county-approved cleanable cladding throughout.
Built Around Your Menu
A taqueria, a coffee build, a smoker rig, and a shaved-ice trailer are four different machines, and we build to the one you are actually running. Our most-ordered shell is a 7x14, but that is a starting point, not a limit. We build any size. If your menu needs a heavier 100-amp panel for refrigeration and griddles, more cold storage, a wider service window, or a hood sized to your cookline, we lay it out before we cut steel. Every wet surface is finished in county-approved cleanable cladding, the plumbing is run to the three-compartment-plus-handwash standard, and the layout is drawn so the unit passes inspection and works a real service rush in Oakland or San Jose without you fighting the floor plan.
California Titling and DMV
A finished trailer still has to be legal on the road, and California handles that in two stages. The DMV issues temporary tags first so you can move and operate the unit, then mails the permanent plates afterward. We handle that registration as part of the build, so you are not making a separate DMV trip on top of everything else. By the time the trailer reaches your spot in the East Bay or down the Peninsula, the titling is in motion and you can focus on your county permit and your opening.
Timeline and Delivery from the Sacramento Yard
A custom build runs about six weeks, with the exact window depending on inspection scheduling for the insignia. We keep you posted as those dates firm up rather than quoting a date we cannot hold. When the unit is done, our in-house transport team brings it to you. The run is straightforward: straight west on I-80 through Vacaville and Fairfield, roughly 90 minutes to the East Bay around Oakland and Berkeley, and about an hour and a half to two hours to San Francisco or San Jose depending on traffic. It is the same crew on every build, not a load-board hauler, so the trailer arrives the way it left the yard.
Bay Area operators tend to circulate through a known set of venues: Off the Grid at Fort Mason (the original Friday-night food-truck market, 30-plus trucks) and its Lake Merritt lineup by the Oakland Museum; SoMa StrEat Food Park and Spark Social SF in Mission Bay for daily and weekend traffic; and satellite Off the Grid markets in Pleasant Hill, Foster City, and Sunnyvale. The Alameda County Fairgrounds in Pleasanton rounds out the event circuit.
Each Bay Area county (San Francisco, Alameda, Santa Clara, San Mateo, Contra Costa and more) runs its own Environmental Health department
The Bay Area is a region, not a single jurisdiction, and there is no one health department covering it. San Francisco, Alameda, Santa Clara, San Mateo, Contra Costa, Marin, Solano, Sonoma, and Napa each run their own Environmental Health division and issue their own Mobile Food Facility permit, and the details differ from county to county. You file with the county where you will operate, and you confirm the exact requirements directly with that county before you commit to a layout. 916 Concession provides the compliance blueprints, drawn to the California standard, so you walk in with documentation that matches what the unit was built to. We do not file the permit; that step is yours.
Plan on roughly a six-week custom build, with the final window tied to inspection scheduling for the California HCD insignia. Delivery is handled by 916 Concession's in-house transport team, the same crew on every build rather than a load-board hauler. From the Sacramento yard the route runs straight west on I-80 through Vacaville and Fairfield, about 90 minutes to the East Bay around Oakland and Berkeley, and roughly an hour and a half to two hours to San Francisco or San Jose depending on traffic.
Build your Bay Area unit
Tell us your menu and timeline. 916 Concession carries the trailer, blueprints, permits, and delivery.
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