Food business licences

Council is hosting a series of free 20-minute sessions to help local food businesses and prospective food business operators to understand their food safety requirements for operating, monitoring and managing their food business under the Eat Safe Brisbane Scheme. These free weekly sessions provide an opportunity to speak face-to-face with a Council Environmental Health Officer, to ask any questions you may have about how the Eat Safe Brisbane Scheme and food safety requirements relates to your business. These sessions will alternate each week between the Brisbane Business Hub and the Suburban Business Hub (16 Aspinall Street, Nundah) from 2-4pm. To take advantage of a 20-minute session, bookings are required. To book visit what's on in Brisbane.

Find Council's requirements for starting a new food business and information on the food business licence process. 

All licensed food premises must have an approved food safety supervisior and food safety program. Council rates food premises under the Eat Safe Brisbane food safety rating scheme. Find out how to renew, withdraw, or amend a food business licence, as well as requirements to renovate your food business. Request an inspection report for the current compliance status of your food business.

Quick access to all the application forms for food businesses.

If you are buying a food business that is already operating, you need to apply for a food business licence from Council. You must receive approval before you start trading. 

If you have an existing food business and want to offer dining on the footpath outside your premises, you may require a footpath dining permit from Council.

Council regulates outdoor dining in the Queen Street and Valley Malls to ensure pedestrian access and safety. Food businesses in these malls need a permit to have tables and chairs outside their premises.