The street food vendors of Bangladesh are not enumerated in the formal sector of country’s economy. They are identified as the informal sector where their businesses are conducted as a form of irregular, unstable, and marginal economic activities. As such there is no systematic documentation of the numbers of street food vendors, their scale of businesses, or the viability of their pursuits. After rickshaw-pulling, street vending is probably the second most important employment opportunity for the urban poor in Bangladesh, and particularly important for young and middle-aged men who have migrated to Dhaka in the past five to ten years. Roughly 750,000 rickshaw pullers and 300,000 street vendors live and work in Dhaka. Dhaka is among the world’s cities with the highest number of hawkers: in Asia, only Mumbai (∼250,000), Delhi (∼200,000), Calcutta (∼150,000), and Bangkok (∼100,000) have similarly large numbers of street vendors [5]. It is impossible to establish the absolute number of street food vendors in Dhaka. However, Benjamin conducted a survey on street food vendors in Dhaka, over a period of three years (2007 to 2010). This survey and official labour statistics demonstrated that between 90,000 and 100,000 street vendors sell prepared food items, and around 418,000 people, or 2.9 percent of Dhaka’s total population depend on the income generated by street food vendors. A glimpse of the socioeconomic background of the vendors is presented below to help understand who the street food vendors are. (i) Both males and females and married and unmarried operate as street food vendors. Their age range is between 25 and 60 years with a majority being in the age group of 30–40 years. (ii) Many street food vendors and their families have their origin in rural backgrounds or have moved to urban centers at a later stage or else live in rural areas and travel daily to the city for their business operations. (iii) The level of education achieved by the street food vendors is comparatively low and in the case of a majority, education levels varied between grades 5 and 8. (iv) Many street food vendors are constrained by the unstable socioeconomic backgrounds in their families. (v) The employment history of the street food vendors shows their previous involvement in several urban-based, irregular, and low-paid income generating activities, which required hard manual labor, prior to their involvement in the street food business. Their engagement in such activities was not sufficient for their sustenance. The result was that the vendors moved from one workplace to another. Street vendors face unique kinds of livelihood risks because of the legal, physical, and sociocultural environment in which they work. The most pressing and ongoing risk for many street vendors is the possibility that local government authorities will forcibly remove them from the streets or confiscate their merchandise. This risk of displacement often increases in the context of elections, mega-events, or efforts to beautify historic city centers. Just like formal business operators, street vendors are less productive in unstable institutional environments where rules are irregular and unpredictable. The urban population in Bangladesh is increasing rapidly. In the last decade, the number of people living in the country’s capital Dhaka almost doubled from 5.3 to 9.3 million. This development has led to an increase in the demand for relatively inexpensive and ready-to-eat foods as many urban residents spend most of the day outside of the house and have little time and money to spend on food. Rapid urbanization also turned street-food vending into an important business; in Dhaka alone, around 200,000 people earn their living by selling street foods. The consumption patterns of street foods and their contribution to dietary intake are scanty. The customer surveys undertaken by FAO 2006 and other investigators revealed that the main consumers of street foods in most countries were other members of the informal sector, such as fellow hawkers and hustlers and casual wage laborers. Other important categories of customers were children and students, office workers, and housewives. The hygienic aspects of street food vending are a major concern for food control officers. Vending stands are often crude structures, and running water, washing facilities, and toilettes may not be available. Improved safety of street foods can be achieved through awareness-raising programmes involving several partners such as local authorities, food vendors, government departments, consumer organizations, standard-setting bodies, and some nongovernmental organizations. In some instances, the vendors are keen to participate in programmes that provide basic facilities that make it possible for them to work in clean environments.