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Briefings for people who lose Saturdays to paperwork.

Two field notes from the 2026 Texas licensing switch and the host-city summer. The title page is open. The rest asks for a work email.

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Field note · Texas corridor · September 2026

Statewide on July 1. Still Dark on Saturday.

HB 2844 gave Texas trucks one health license. It did not move the fire extinguisher, the commissary log, or the inspection that decides whether you serve this weekend.

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On June 4, 2026 DSHS opened applications for the statewide mobile food vendor license. On July 1 the license became mandatory. In Houston, city medallions had already died the night before.

Operators are still losing Saturdays to a mismatched stack: an annual health license, a 180-day fire tag, a commissary agreement nobody packed, and a pre-licensing inspection that parks a new unit until it passes.

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Field note · Host-city events · September 2026

The 14-Day Clock and the Stadium Fence

Houston stopped reading late temporary-food applications on June 1. Arlington shut its Entertainment District to trucks on World Cup match days. A DSHS license opened neither gate.

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Effective June 1, 2026, Houston Health will not review a temporary food application that arrives fewer than 14 days before the event. In April, Arlington paused temporary vending around AT&T Stadium on match days and the day before.

Event work still fails the way it failed in 2019: a Friday packet, a permit that is city-specific, a truck that is legal somewhere else, and a weekend of downtime you cannot invoice.

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