Everything you need to help start your own mobile event catering business for free.
Useful business advice, help, ideas and tips
to get your new mobile outdoor event catering business started.
START UP A MOBILE CATERING BUSINESS
STEP2. REGULATIONS - FOOD SAFETY LAWS
Roadside trading
A lot of confusion over where you are allowed to legally trade is often
experienced by many individuals who plan to start up mobile catering.
Unfortunately many individuals are under the impression that they can park their
catering trailers wherever they like and start trading. The reality is that with
all the regulations and roadside trading laws those individuals often find
themselves on the wrong side of the law, in dispute with their local council and
in extreme cases legal proceedings been taken against them to prevent them
parking and trading on the roadside or in a lay-by.
If you are still keen to operate your catering
unit from a lay-by or roadside talk to your local
council first, many have a list of specific lay-bys and places where they
allow traders and often concessions are offered on a twelve month licence.
Whatever you do, don't pull into a lay-by and start trading without permission
first, once you have lost your councils trust in you and your mobile catering
business its very hard to get it back.
Private property or store fronts Many individuals new to mobile catering opt to position their new catering
trailers on private property, industrial estates or on DIY store fronts etc.
Once you have found yourself a good position you will still have to comply with
certain regulations that may be in place. Just because you're on private
property it does not make you immune to local planning and safety laws.
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