⌛ Street Vendor License/Permit

I am thinking of operating a weekend street vendor stall on Rizal Boulevarde on weekends which will not compete with anything currently there. It is primarily dessert based....

Due to low stock and overheads required, it would be feasible with the risk being very low.This is to give some family members something to do and be self sufficient.

Do you require a permit to operate such stall?

I guess a trip is to the local council/city hall for enquiries unless some members have already been down this path?

Any feedback is appreciated

 

go to City Hall and DTI (Department of Trade and Industry)and inquire there.

 

Well I asked some of the vendors selling fruit up the road from Bethel about having to get a license...and it seems like I remember they did not go thru all that paperwork. There is someone who comes around to collect a daily fee from them.

I suppose it depends on what type of structure you are using. Vendors regularly walk the blvd selling things w/o a license, and how about those vendors from Mindinao?

I even proposed that to the mayor's office as grounds to deport those Mindinao vendors.

 

I think you will find that the local permanent restaraunts and businesses have some type of lock in place against such temporary establishments and now I am told there are no permits allowed. Most of the "street" vendors that you still see are mobile for a reason, the quick get away. The temporary licenses/permits are only given during fiestas or special events. If things have changed again though let us know please.

 

SurfinUSA - I'm guessing that you mean Mindanao not Mindinao, but I don't understand the "deport" part.
Just curious.

 

The annoying pearl vendors, and their compadres that sell fake viagra etc who eat, sleep, make babies, poop in the water, etc on the boulevard should be deported back to Mindanao-which actually the city has done on occasion.

 

SUSA, I absolutely agree. having said that, I recognized, that the patrolling tourist-police in the evening is actually a step in the right direction and there are less "imported" vendors around than the same time the last years.

I don't know which authority those guys really have, but just the presence is a nice thing and they are actually very friendly, still a lot to achieve at the boulevard but slowly slowly there is some improvement.

 

As is always the case, if you "deport" those street vendors, they will only return or be replaced by street vendors from another local. If there is a "customer base", they will come, reguardless.

 

ron I believe you are wrong in that, we are in the philippines, for many of those guys it is a city, a customer base or not often even organized by those who collect the profit. They ship this people over from Mindanao. For those who come from the mountains and remote places it is the "magic of a city" there must be rich people.

Same why Millions of poor locals giving up everything in the province where they were fishermen, farmer and able to take care of their daily needs just to move to Manila.

They have no idea what to do there, but Hey, it is Manila lets go there ..... to find themselves in the slums, sniffing glue and going through trash of others just for anything in the stomach.

 

Actually, I can relate more than most will realize being from Texas. I guess my point is that shipping them back to where they came from usually doesn't work. The US/Mexico border is the best example I have first-hand knowledge of.