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If you want to operate a restaurant serving alcohol , you are obliged to submit a business registration 6 weeks before the start of operations under the submission of certain documents.

Anyone who wants to operate a restaurant serving alcohol is obliged to submit a business registration 6 weeks before the start of operations under the submission of certain documents. This is to ensure that the restaurant is operated by a reliable trader.

If you want to operate a restaurant without serving alcohol , you only have to submit a business registration at the same time as the start of operation.

More about business registration - see "Business registration" (service description in the Hessen-Finder)

A restaurant is operated by any person who commercially serves beverages and/or food for consumption on the spot, if the establishment is accessible to everyone or certain groups of persons.

No anticipated business registration is required if alcoholic beverages

• as a gratuitous ancillary service in small quantities, or
• to house guests in connection with an accommodation establishment

be submitted. Here, as in the case of a restaurant without serving alcohol, the submission of a business registration at the time of the start of operation is sufficient.

• Identity card or passport (with current registration certificate from the municipality of residence)
• Business registration
• Proof of the requested certificate of good conduct for submission to the authority of the registration office of the main residence:
  see also: Certificate of good conduct (service description in the Hessen-Finder)
• Proof of the requested information from the Central Trade Register for submission to the authority of the registration office of the main residence:
  see: Trade Central Register Information (Service Description in Hessen-Finder)
• Extract from the list of debtors
  • at the insolvency court (pursuant to Section 26 (2) sentence 1 of the Insolvency Code) and
  • at the enforcement court (pursuant to Section 915(1) of the Code of Civil Procedure)
• Certificate in tax matters of the competent tax office:
  see also: Certificate in tax matters (service description in Hessen-Finder)

The fee is based on the administrative costs regulation for the business area of the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Energy, Transport and Regional Development (VwKostO-MWEVL). Their amount is calculated according to the time required and amounts to at least EUR 55.00 in the case of a business advertisement for a restaurant serving alcohol if a receipt according to § 2 HGastG in conjunction with § 15 GewO is waived. In addition, there are costs for the documents to be submitted, the amount of which, however, cannot be quantified here.

In addition to the provisions of the Hessian Restaurant Act, the building law, immission control and hygiene regulations must be observed in particular.

Temporary operation of a restaurant:

On special occasions, the catering business may be carried out temporarily, if this is done at least 4 weeks before the start of the business, specifying

• surnames and forenames with addresses capable of being summoned,
• the place and period during which the restaurant business was carried on,
• the food and drink to be administered,
• the expected number of visitors

is notified in writing to the municipality.

Contact the restaurant authority of your municipality or city.

You can also complete the procedure electronically via the Point of Single Contact:

 

A separate platform has been developed for online applications. On the so-called service platform you can submit your applications electronically and much more! You are welcome to get your own impression of the application in advance without registering beforehand. To do this, use the simulation. In order to make full use of the online application, you must first register with the online application process.
 

Online application procedure of the Point of Single Contact Hesse