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Food and drink

Cafésrestaurantstakeawaysfood vansbakeries

Two registrations in Jersey, not one — and an inspection that gives you a star rating customers can see.

  1. 01

    Selling food or drink to eat in or take away needs two things: a Places of Refreshment registration, and registration as a food premises with Environmental Health (Eat Safe). There are exceptions by type of business.

  2. 02

    The Places of Refreshment registration is renewed every year: £103.53 from 1 January 2026, reviewed yearly.

  3. 03

    Mobile catering needs the landowner’s permission — Jersey Property Holdings for public land, the parish for parish land, the owner for private land — and a significant change of land use is likely to need planning permission.