{"id":358481,"date":"2026-07-31T04:37:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T04:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/358481\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T04:37:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T04:37:07","slug":"city-council-may-allow-short-term-food-trucks-at-jaycee-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/358481\/","title":{"rendered":"City Council may allow short-term food trucks at Jaycee Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jaycee Park. CITY OF CAPE CORAL<\/p>\n<p>Visitors to Jaycee Park may be able to get a snack or beverage while the city goes back to square one for a new concessionaire.<\/p>\n<p>Cape Coral City Council directed staff to create a list of possible vendors that could offer food and drink in the short-term at the recently reopened riverfront park at the end of Driftwood Parkway.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor John Gunter said maybe the city could solicit vendors interested in commitments of perhaps 30 days.<\/p>\n<p>The idea is to have a food truck that can offer something at the park while the city goes back through the process of finding a long-term contract concessionaire for the facility it spent $18.7 million to wholly rebuild.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn all reality, we kind of weren\u2019t able to bring this to fruition \u2014 something to do in the short term until the long term,\u201d Gunter said.<\/p>\n<p>City Manager Michael Ilczyszyn said he will determine the quickest way to make that happen.<\/p>\n<p>To reach MEGHAN BRADBURY, please email <a href=\"https:\/\/www.capecoralbreeze.com\/news\/local-news\/2026\/07\/30\/city-council-may-allow-short-term-food-trucks-at-jaycee-park\/mailto:news@breezenewspapers.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">news@breezenewspapers.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jaycee Park. CITY OF CAPE CORAL Visitors to Jaycee Park may be able to get a snack or&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125582,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":["post-358481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}