Do collective dining units need to apply for a food business license?

According to the relevant laws and regulations of our country, those who contract to operate canteens of centralized dining units shall obtain food business licenses according to law and be responsible for the food safety of canteens. Centralized dining units shall urge the undertaker to implement the food safety management system and assume management responsibilities.

The canteen in the enterprise must have a license.

No matter whether the company canteen is operated externally or not, as long as it involves catering, it must apply for the corresponding license, and the operation without the corresponding license belongs to unlicensed operation. The enterprise canteen must apply for a food business license (the catering service license has been changed to a food business license), which shall be handled by the local food and drug administration.

To apply for a food business license, the following conditions shall be met:

1. It has food raw material processing, processing, sales and storage places suitable for the variety and quantity of food it deals in, keeping the environment of the places clean and tidy, and keeping a prescribed distance from toxic and harmful places and other pollution sources;

2. There are business equipment or facilities suitable for the variety and quantity of food to be operated, and there are corresponding equipment or facilities for disinfection, changing clothes, washing, lighting, ventilation, corrosion prevention, dust prevention, fly prevention, rodent prevention, insect prevention, washing, wastewater treatment and garbage storage;

3, full-time or part-time food safety management personnel and rules and regulations to ensure food safety;

4. Have a reasonable equipment layout and technological process to prevent cross-contamination of food to be processed and directly imported food, raw materials and finished products, and avoid food contact with toxic and unclean substances;

5. Other conditions stipulated by laws and regulations.

I hope the above content can help you. Please consult a professional lawyer if you have any other questions.

Legal basis:

Article 9 of the Measures for the Administration of Food Business License: To apply for a food business license, one should first obtain the qualifications of a legal subject such as a business license.

Enterprise legal person, partnership enterprise, sole proprietorship enterprise, individual industrial and commercial households, etc. The applicant is the subject specified in the business license.

For canteens of government agencies, institutions, social organizations, private non-enterprise units, enterprises and other tendering units, the applicant shall be the subject specified in the registration certificate or business license of the registration certificate of government agencies, institutions and social organizations as legal persons.