Business · Nigeria
Open a restaurant / food business
Licensing to operate a restaurant or food-service business: CAC → Local Government food permit → food handlers' health certificates → NAFDAC Good Hygiene Practice.
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Who you will deal with
The steps
- Register the business (CAC)
- Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC)
- Incorporate or register the business name (see the CAC procedure).
- Certificate of Incorporation / business name
- See CAC procedure
- Obtain the Local Government food/premises permit
- Local Government Authority
- Apply for a food/premises permit in the Local Government where the restaurant is located, before commencing operations.
- Business registration; premises address
- Before commencement
- Get food handlers' health certificates
- State Ministry of Health
- Food-handling staff obtain health/fitness certificates from the State Ministry of Health or a recognised facility (blood, sputum, urine, widal, hepatitis tests).
- Staff medical tests
- Per staff member
- Obtain NAFDAC Good Hygiene Practice (GHP) licence
- NAFDAC
- Food processed/sold in commercial quantity requires a NAFDAC GHP licence; premises are inspected for ventilation, water, sanitation and handler certification. Non-compliance fines up to ₦800,000.
- Premises inspection; food-handler certificates
- After inspection
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The numbers behind the decision
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