Visitors will then have a chance to taste and vote for their favorite taco.
The city hopes events like the taco competition will bring more people out to the truck fest and therefore boost business for local restaurants trying to rebuild post-pandemic.
"When you look at the industry as a whole - then we have our special niche, which is our food trucks. And that's why the department decided to have the food truck fest really to try to uplift the food truck operators," said BACP Commissioner Kenneth Meyer.More from CBS News
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