HUMBOLDT 鈥� Food Truck Wars' visit to Humboldt has been cancelled.
"The owner of Foodtruckwars.ca has elected to cancel the Humboldt event, with very short notice. We are sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused," said Brent Fitzpatrick, the Humboldt Downtown Business Improvement District's executive director, in a statement.
"We feel a downtown event would have had a significant positive impact for the business community and regret its cancellation."
The event was originally planned for Sept. 25 and 26.
Dale Belair, co-owner of foodtruckwars.ca, said he didn鈥檛 want to cancel it, but with COVID-19 health restrictions he had no choice.
鈥淎fter 30 years we don鈥檛 just cancel an event for no good reason, especially after running three successful events,鈥� Belair said.
Previously, the food truck events were classified under 鈥渇armers鈥� markets鈥�. Belair said they recently had that classification changed to 鈥渞estaurant鈥� which restricts them to 30 people.
鈥淚t was supposed to be a farmers鈥� market event basically, and then we became a 鈥榬estaurant space鈥� all of the sudden after doing farmers market events all summer,鈥� he said. 鈥淲e just couldn鈥檛 do it, they changed the capacity to 30 people on the event site, and that just doesn鈥檛 work.鈥�
Belair said for the Humboldt event, he was expecting a total of 24 vendors including trucks.
