Home based restaurant on Uber Eats and Just Eat Possible?
I mean, if you apply and enter in a commercial address for example. My workplace for example. Let's say I set up a small kitchen and make food. Is this possible?
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Home based restaurant on Uber Eats and Just Eat Possible?
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- NEMESIS_2008 [OP]
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- xxxray
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You will need a commercial kitchen to get a licence. You can't just cook and sell out of your home kitchen
- eonibm
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Yup, or every wannabe short-order cook would be selling their leftovers on Uber Cheats.
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- eonibm
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Yeah, because making your own kids sick is ok, not someone elses. Makes total sense.FrancisBacon wrote: ↑ Grandma is licensed to feed her 10 grandkids, but God forbid an adult neighbor would want to pay to eat her pot roast.
Not to mention not everyone cooks like Grandma in case ya haven't noticed.
- SofaProfessor
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Similar idea but different... I saw a news story about "ghost kitchens" popping up on Uber Eats and Skipthedishes. Basically, people buy a commercial kitchen and open like 8 different variety restaurants but all of the cooking is done within the same kitchen. There is no way for customers to sit down and eat or come get takeout. Basically they are just catering to these new delivery apps. They might have one Indian food restaurant, a burger restaurant, an Italian place, etc. all under one roof.
But yeah, as others have pointed out, you can't just start cooking up food in your home kitchen and selling it. You need a commercial kitchen that's properly licensed to serve food.
But yeah, as others have pointed out, you can't just start cooking up food in your home kitchen and selling it. You need a commercial kitchen that's properly licensed to serve food.
- FrancisBacon
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I specifically compared kids to adults. But as usual, you prefer to argue against something that was not said.
Although in this case, you're also wrong: it's perfectly ok for grandma to make dozens of someone else's kids sick: she's allowed to cook food for her grandkids' birthday parties and back yard BBQs.
Anyway, to OPs point: the answer is that you'll have to carefully read Ontario's regulations and see if there are any exceptions you might qualify under. You'll also want to know what the fines for a first offence would be. If you are seriously interested it would be worth investing an hour's time with a specialist lawyer (or many hours of your personal time) to be certain.
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- HghSsociety
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The difference is that grandma is a very infrequent thing where as a commercial business will be feeding the masses day in and day out for hours on end for years.FrancisBacon wrote: ↑ I specifically compared kids to adults. But as usual, you prefer to argue against something that was not said.
Although in this case, you're also wrong: it's perfectly ok for grandma to make dozens of someone else's kids sick: she's allowed to cook food for her grandkids' birthday parties and back yard BBQs.
Anyway, to OPs point: the answer is that you'll have to carefully read Ontario's regulations and see if there are any exceptions you might qualify under. You'll also want to know what the fines for a first offence would be. If you are seriously interested it would be worth investing an hour's time with a specialist lawyer (or many hours of your personal time) to be certain.
Same concept as a shriners club doing a buffet to feed the masses. They are excempt and have different rules to follow as they are infrequent events. They just need to keep a log book. To find out the correct answer will only take a quick call to your municipal health department but to do what you are asking is not possible unless you turn your home kitchen into a commercial kitchen
- RolandCouch
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There are several Uber eats in my area that I'm sure are just people cooking out of their houses. Can't find any info on them at all if you Google the names
- FrancisBacon
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Now that is a real difference, and I'm certainly not arguing that Parmalat or McD's which serve millions shouldn't have some oversight.HghSsociety wrote: ↑ The difference is that grandma is a very infrequent thing where as a commercial business will be feeding the masses day in and day out for hours on end for years.
However food regulations technically apply equally to everyone from a 5 year old's lemonade stand and a small time food vendor to huge national chains, which I think is overkill.
We are all made poorer by overregulation, and not made much safer, if at all.