Before you start trading
Before you start trading you:
- should read our page What you need to do as a small business
- must register online as a food business
- complete or our questionnaire and send it back to food&safety@braintree.gov.uk
To support your registration, you should take pictures and draw a plan of the kitchen layout. This will allow us to decide if your kitchen is suitable for the food preparation that you wish to do.
The pictures should include:
- floors
- walls
- ceiling
- windows
- doors
- ventilation
- equipment to be used
- worktops
- storage areas
- sinks and wash hand basin (include the size of main kitchen sink e.g. single bowl, bowl and a half, double bowl etc)
- location of nearest WC and all closable doors between WC and kitchen
If the washing area is not in the kitchen, tell us the distance that it is from the kitchen on your plan.
To run a food business from your kitchen there must be a lobby between the wc and the kitchen.
Food and Safety
Please note: The team work on an area basis. Please include the name and address of the business you are enquiring about (if known), alternatively please provide your home address if the business address is not yet known. If you are emailing the team please provide a contact telephone number as we often need more detail in order to provide a full response to your enquiry.
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