Licences, permits and selling alcohol
You do not need any licence to open or to take orders. Licences and permits is where you add the ones that build trust, and where a kitchen that wants to sell alcohol gets its licence checked first.
Licences and permits: requested for your kind of store, optional ones, and alcohol.
Captured from feedhood.com. The phone view is the site at 390px wide. The Feedhood app does the same jobs and may look a little different.
Worth knowing
- Needed to open
- Nothing here
- Every document on this page is optional for opening and taking orders.
- Alcohol
- Licence checked first
- Feedhood reviews it before any alcohol can be ordered. Buyers confirm their age and couriers never carry it.
- Review time
- 1-2 business days
What catches people out
Send a renewal before the date and nothing changes. If it lapses, your alcohol goes back to waiting for review, and the dishes that contain alcohol are hidden until it is approved again.
In BC alcohol carries GST plus 10% PST while restaurant food carries GST only. Leave the field blank to charge alcohol at your usual rate, and check it with your accountant.
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