To open a restaurant, you need to apply for a food hygiene license first and then apply for an individual business license. ?

Business License

Before opening a store, you must first have a legal business entity. Generally speaking, opening a restaurant and applying for a self-employed business license can meet daily business needs, but if In the future, you may want to open a chain store or let more people join. If the business scale is large, you can apply for the company's business license. The selection is mainly based on future development scale, operating needs, and funds.

Food Business License

After you have the business license, you can start to apply for the food business license. It should be noted that you cannot apply for the food business license first and then apply for business. License, because a necessary condition for applying for a food business license is a business license. In the past, food distribution licenses, catering service licenses, and hygiene licenses were all applied for. Now, food business licenses have been unified, so those who already have food distribution licenses can still use them within the validity period.

Food Safety Manager Certificate

If the applicant’s main business type and business project are between 50 square meters and more than 1,000 square meters, when applying for a food business license, a food safety manager is required To obtain the certificate, catering units with a business area of ??50 square meters or less and business units that only sell pre-packaged food will be assessed by simple paper examination papers. Article 47 of the "Food Hygiene Law" stipulates that anyone engaged in food production and business activities within the territory of the People's Republic of China must obtain a health license before applying to the industrial and commercial department for registration. ?Extended information

(1) Food sales operators: including six business forms: shopping malls, supermarkets, convenience stores, grocery stores, food traders, food vending sellers, and online food sellers.

Among them, shopping malls and supermarkets should meet the following requirements: food business area is greater than 200 ㎡, inclusive;

Physical store food sellers: food business area is less than 200 ㎡;

(2) Catering service operators: including three business forms: ordinary catering (extra large, large, medium, small, micro), central kitchen, and collective dining distribution unit.

(3) Unit canteen: including student canteens, kindergarten canteens, staff canteens, construction site canteens, and other canteens in five operating forms.

Among them, extra large catering: the use area of ??processing and business premises is more than 3000㎡; large catering: the use area of ??processing and business premises is 500~3000㎡ (excluding 500㎡, including 3000㎡); medium-sized catering: processing The usable area of ??business premises is 150-500㎡ (excluding 150㎡, including 500㎡); small catering: the usable area of ??processing business premises is 30-150㎡ (excluding 30㎡, including 150㎡); micro-catering: processing business premises The usable area is less than 30 square meters (including 30 square meters);

Food Safety Manager Certificate

If the applicant’s main business type and business project are between 50 square meters and more than 1,000 square meters, apply for food business When applying for a license, a food safety manager certificate is required. Catering units with a business area of ??50 square meters or less and business units that only sell pre-packaged food will be assessed by simple paper examination papers.