Hot food licenses???

[qwertyford]

Hi,

Does anybody have any experience with hot food licenses for takeaway business's. Are hot food licenses required because a business is going to be increasing the traffic into an area and therefore increasing disturbances or are they just licenses to sell hot food? Am I right in thinking that sandwich shops that don't sell hot food don't need hot food licenses and just need another license which is a lot easier to obtain.

Also when does a business become a catering company compared and not a hot food takeaway. If a takeaway shop closed its doors to the customer and delivered all food, would it still be required to have a hot food license.

All help is much appreciated.

Regards, Tony

[The Londoner]

Not quite sure what you are after, but if you are talking about planning consent, you need to apply for one of the following depending on what you want to do:

A3 - Food and drink for consumption on the premises
A4 - Pubs, wine bars or other drinking establishments
A5 - Sale of hot for food consumption off the premises

HTH

[pugwash4x4]

i guess you are talking abou the new licensing laws.

if you sell food after 11 pm you need a license.

applied for from the same place you get liquour licenses- Magistrates courts for me.

You don't need a license to trade if you are only open normal hours- but as the chap above said you do need planning permission relevant to the business you are wanting to run from a premises

[madazrx7]

Can only comment from Aust POV, we had a combined garage sale with a few friends & neighbours, put the bbq on the front lawn and sold hotdogs & drinks to the punters.
Bloke from the health dept told us we weren't allowed to as we needed a licence to sell food to the pubic.

I would have expected that anyone selling food as a business would definately need a licence.

btw I believe licence is the noun and license is the verb



>> Edited by madazrx7 on Tuesday 2nd May 15:08

[qwertyford]

'mazda', Legally, I know that its fine for you to sell food under your circumstance. When you sell food for over 5 days of 5 weeks of the year, you will need a license and/or registration with the food department of the council. Under 5 days your fine.