Retail Food Establishments are businesses that prepare, serve, store, or sell food directly to the public. Food preparation and storage must occur in a commercial kitchen or other approved food facility. Examples include restaurants, coffee shops, bars, food trucks, grocery stores, caterers, and similar operations.
Retail Food Establishment Basics:
“Retail food establishment” means an operation, whether mobile or at a temporary or stationary facility or location, that meets one or more of the conditions in subsections (24)(a)(i) and (24)(a)(ii) and that may include a central processing facility that supplies a transportation vehicle or a vending location or satellite feeding location.
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