Food business category


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Business type

Is your business a: 

  • restaurant

  • takeaway

  • kiosk

  • canteen

  • food stall

  • hotel or motel with table service

  • bed and breakfast

  • café

  • bakery

  • aged care facility

  • early learning centre

  • delicatessen

  • supermarket with delicatessen

  • service station

  • convenience store

  • juice bar

  • pub

  • smorgasbord

  • mobile food vendor

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Charity or non-profit status

*A meal is food that is meant to be eaten with cutlery eg. casserole, curries etc.
*Examples of food that is not a meal eg. pie and sausage roll, hot dog, sausage sizzle, hamburger, soup.

Food processing

*(processing includes - chopping, cooking, drying, fermenting, heating, thawing, slicing, weighing, re-heating, re-packing, hot holding, thawing, cooling, washing, or similar)

Category 1

Tools required 

  • Food handler training *food safety supervisor

  • Substantiation of key food safety controls 

If we have already given your business a food business classification and you believe it is incorrect, please call 131 872 or send an email to environmentalhealth.services@tr.qld.gov.au.

Refer to  licence types & requirements on our website for more information.

Category 2

Tools required 

  • Food handler training 

  • Food safety supervisor

If we have already given your business a food business classification and you believe it is incorrect, please call 131 872 or send an email to environmentalhealth.services@tr.qld.gov.au.

Refer to  licence types & requirements on our website for more information.

Does not apply

This standard does not apply to your business.

Refer to  licence types & requirements  on our website for more information.

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