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Kitchen in Cafe - license required?

  • 30-10-2019 11:41am
    #1
    gluppers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 516 ✭✭✭


    Hi there. Does anyone have any experience in what's reqiured when planning to implement a kitchen in a cafe?


    I have a cafe currently without a kitchen

    I want to add a full kitchen with cooking facilities

    My question is, do I need a special license to do this?


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  • #2
    Gumbo
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 40,339 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gumbo


    gluppers wrote: »
    Hi there. Does anyone have any experience in what's reqiured when planning to implement a kitchen in a cafe?


    I have a cafe currently without a kitchen

    I want to add a full kitchen with cooking facilities

    My question is, do I need a special license to do this?

    Fire Safety Certificate I would guess.

    Do you need Planning Permission? I'm not sure, what does the original Planning state?


  • #3
    antoinolachtnai
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,815 ✭✭✭antoinolachtnai


    kceire wrote: »
    Fire Safety Certificate I would guess.

    Do you need Planning Permission? I'm not sure, what does the original Planning state?

    You most likely need planning unless you originally had planning for a restaurant as opposed to a coffee shop. You need to investigate this either way.

    You need the kitchen to be adequate to prepare food healthily and safely. The EHO will have to be happy as well as the fire cert being in place.

    The big practical problem tends to be extraction. You need appropriate ducting and this can be (a) expensive and (b) difficult to do in terms of planning and neighbours’ concerns.

    Appropriate fire exits could be a practical problem too for much the same reasons.

    It all works out as a lot of money and trouble. You need to be sure your site is good enough to support the cost. In practice it needs to be able to add at least three hundred euros a week to your EBITDA for it to be worthwhile, and probably more. This means that to make it work you will probably need to staff up and invest in some sort of marketing improvements as well as putting in the kitchen itself. The main thing is to plan it out and make sure you can make the money back. (this is beyond the scope of your question I know.)


  • #4
    sully2010
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 594 ✭✭✭sully2010


    kceire wrote: »
    Fire Safety Certificate I would guess.

    Do you need Planning Permission? I'm not sure, what does the original Planning state?

    Wrong again


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