Unterrichtung für Gastwirte

If you want to run a restaurant, you will come into contact with food on a daily basis. You need to know how to handle and store food correctly.

If you handle food incorrectly, food and drinks can spoil. If you do not observe hygiene regulations, you may even endanger the health of your guests. You will also have to pay fines if you do not comply with the regulations.

In order to run your restaurant successfully, you will learn the necessary principles for handling food at the Chamber of Industry and Commerce (IHK) training course. The topics covered include hygiene regulations, food law, beer, wine and milk law as well as beverage plant law.

As a founder in the hospitality industry requiring a license, you must provide proof of this training to an IHK when applying for a restaurant license.

The training is usually held in German. Some chambers of industry and commerce can provide you with an interpreter for a fee if required.

You can be exempted from the catering instruction upon request,

• if you have already completed certain state-recognized training occupations with an examination before an IHK, Chamber of Crafts or a craft guild and
• the contents of the catering instruction were the subject of the training and examination.

Identity card or passport

After you have attended the training on food and hygiene regulations, you will receive a certificate (proof of training).

• If you want to run a restaurant, you need a certificate of training in food handling and hygiene regulations
• The training is carried out by the Chamber of Industry and Commerce and subsequently certified (proof of training)
• Proof of training from an IHK is required to apply for a restaurant license

You can find the Chamber of Industry and Commerce responsible for you here: IHK competence finder