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Opening a food premises

Any premises used for the manufacture, preparation or storage of food for sale must be registered with Auckland City Council. These include restaurants and cafes, bakeries, dairies, grocers, supermarkets, etc. You cannot open your food premises to the public unless you are registered.

All food for sale in your premises must also be made on a registered premises. Food cannot be produced in the home kitchen for sale.

The first step

If you are thinking about setting up a restaurant or cafe there are a number of steps you will need to consider including:

• location (are you allowed to operate a food premises in the area?)
• car parking
• liquor licensing
• health licensing
• building issues eg. disabled access, fire safety

You can contact us to find out if you are allowed to set up a food premises in your chosen area. We will advise you whether there are any parking or other planning requirements for the area including lighting, noise and air extraction which may affect neighbouring premises.

If you intend to operate as a wholesale outlet or food manufacturer you will also need to contact a Health Protection Officer at Auckland District Health Board, phone (09) 367 0000. They will advise you about labelling, ingredients and preservative requirements.

Download a complete guide to Food and liquor licences (PDF, 2Mb, 29 pages) To view PDFs download Acrobat Reader from the Adobe website. Further help on how to view PDFs.

Updated April 2009