Thailand food & restaurant license.

Serving food and operating a restaurant in Thailand necessitates acquiring a food & restaurant license for your business.

Food and restaurant
license application.

The Thailand food & restaurant license application consists of the following steps:

Provide the required documents to the district officer
Once the application has been submitted, we’ll contact the officer to make an appointment for him/her to check the restaurant. Based on this, additional documents might be required. Note that the employees should be present to explain certain food making processes
Every Thai employee additionally will have to go for a test at the district office (50 multiple choice questions, of which 40 have to be answered correctly). It concerns questions about hygiene etc. The officer will provide each employee with a small book which they can study.
Upon confirmation that everything is in order (both the supplied documents, the restaurant itself and the employees’ tests), the officer will issue the food license (which may take up to one month). At this stage, the government fee will have to be paid.

The following documents will have to be supplied:

A logo of the trademark in the exact color
House Registration of the building
Original consent letter or copy of the lease agreement (affixed with a duty stamp)
Copy of the ID card and house registration of the director of the company
Copy of the ID card and house registration of the owner of the business
Power of Attorney
Completed and signed application form (SorAor1)
Map of location
Photos (print out) in front of and inside the restaurant
Layout of the restaurant (interior plan) (แบบของร้าน ว่ามีอะไรวางตรงไหนบ้าง เช่น ครัว โต๊ะ)
Square meters of the whole restaurant (incl. tables, kitchen, counter etc.)
Documents proving the ownership (on a case by case basis), such as the sale and purchase agreement, title deed (all pages) or construction permit

Government fee which is calculated based on the square meters of the restaurant:

Note that the food license needs to be renewed every calendar year (valid until December 31).