Food, Drink & Hospitality

Step-by-step routes through what food, drink & hospitality businesses must do.

Curated by what's changing, what's most consequential, and where things go wrong.

The bodies that set rules and enforce compliance for food, drink & hospitality.

Ranked by how much of the legislation this sector's guides cite each one enforces.

The Acts and statutory instruments that set duties for this sector.

Ranked by how many of this sector's guides cite each — the legislation most central to the sector appears first.

• Act
  Food Safety Act 1990 (opens in a new tab) Cited by 26 of this sector's guides
• Act
  Licensing Act 2003 (opens in a new tab) Cited by 18 of this sector's guides
• SI
  Food Safety and Hygiene (England) Regulations 2013 (opens in a new tab) Cited by 17 of this sector's guides
• SI
  Food Information Regulations 2014 (opens in a new tab) Cited by 9 of this sector's guides
• Act
  Food Hygiene Rating (Wales) Act 2013 (opens in a new tab) Cited by 8 of this sector's guides
• SI
  Regulation (EC) No 852/2004 (Food hygiene) (opens in a new tab) Cited by 8 of this sector's guides
• SI
  Food Hygiene (Wales) Regulations 2006 (opens in a new tab) Cited by 5 of this sector's guides
• Act
  Licensing (Scotland) Act 2005 (opens in a new tab) Cited by 4 of this sector's guides

All guidance for food, drink & hospitality

107 guides for this sector.

Grouped by topic area, with the topic holding the most guidance first; within each, the most comprehensive guides lead.

All journeys

• Meet environmental compliance requirements Navigate your environmental obligations including waste duty of care, pollution prevention, packaging responsibilities, and energy reporting
• Start a brewery or distillery Launch a brewery, distillery, winery, or cidery in the UK
• Hospitality compliance quick check Quick compliance check for experienced hospitality operators. Covers licensing, food safety, fire risk, tipping policy, right to work, …
• Meet food safety requirements for your business Register, implement HACCP, and comply with food safety law including allergen requirements
• Start a hospitality business: licences, food safety, and compliance End-to-end learning path for opening a hospitality business. Covers premises licences, food business registration, HACCP, fire safety, employer …
• Open new hospitality premises: from lease to launch End-to-end journey from signing a lease to opening night. Covers planning use class checks, premises licence application timeline, …
• Accommodation compliance for hotels, B&Bs, and holiday lets Compliance journey for accommodation providers covering tourist registration, fire safety for sleeping accommodation, legionella management, VAT on accommodation, …
• Respond to a hospitality licensing investigation What to do if your hospitality business faces a licensing review, environmental health investigation, fire safety enforcement notice, …
• Start a food business for the first time Everything you need to do before opening a food business. Covers registration, premises, HACCP, training, allergens, labelling, and …
• Start a food business in Wales
• Start a food manufacturing business Set up a food or drink production and manufacturing business
• Building regulations compliance for renovation Navigate building control approval, thermal upgrade requirements, and competent person schemes when renovating business premises
• Start a restaurant Open a restaurant, cafe, or food business
• Improve your food hygiene rating Practical steps to improve a poor food hygiene rating. Understand what inspectors scored, fix the issues, and request …
• Quick check: running a food business in Wales Quick compliance check for Wales-specific food business obligations. Covers mandatory hygiene ratings, food waste separation, registration, and environmental …
• Respond to food safety enforcement action in Wales What to do if your food business in Wales receives an improvement notice, prohibition order, or prosecution. Covers …
• Set up as an alcohol or drinks producer Learning path for new drinks producers — brewers, distillers, winemakers and cidermakers, and makers of soft drinks and …
• Water Framework Directive compliance for businesses Complete compliance pathway for businesses whose activities may affect water body status — from understanding the WFD framework …
• Running a holiday let Step-by-step compliance guide for self-catering holiday accommodation. Covers licensing, safety, tax, food hygiene, and employment obligations.
• Respond to a poor food hygiene rating in Wales
• Food safety quick compliance check A quick compliance check for food business operators. Covers registration, HACCP, allergens, temperature control, training, and record keeping.
• Packaging producer compliance journey Understand the overlapping environmental obligations for businesses that handle packaging. Covers Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR), Plastic Packaging Tax …
• Set up an animal-origin food business Learning path for new makers of products of animal origin — meat, poultry, fish and dairy. Work out …
• Set up as a food manufacturer Learning path for new general and processed food manufacturers — bakeries, confectioners, oil and fat processors, millers and …
• Managing business waste and duty of care compliance Navigate your legal obligations for business waste - duty of care, waste carriers, transfer notes, recycling separation, and …
• Help with Wales Visitor Levy Troubleshooting guide for Wales visitor accommodation registration and levy collection. Helps accommodation providers understand registration requirements, council levy …
• Respond to a food safety incident Immediate steps when unsafe food is discovered or a customer reports illness. Stop selling, withdraw the product, notify …

Subsectors

SIC 2007 divisions covered by this sector.