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Street food vendors are of vital importance in the urban economies, especially for high-density places like Andheri (East), Mumbai. But street food preparations often depend on socioeconomic conditions that have the potential to affect food safety. This paper analyses the relationship between infrastructure support like pure water and sanitation with food safety practice and socioeconomic pressures at street food vendors. Using a mixed-methods approach with 112 vendor responses, findings suggest a moderate positive correlation between infrastructure and hygiene practices, stressing its importance in ensuring food safety. In contrast, financial constraints were not found to have a statistically direct impact on hygiene maintenance. These results indicate that targeted interventions like improved infrastructure and sector-specific training programs can contribute to better public health outcomes through overcoming pertinent barriers to street food production.