You will need to apply for a Food Shop Licence if you intend to operate a retail food outlet where food and/or drink are sold wholly by retail. This is a requirement under the Environmental Public Health Act. The purpose of licensing is to ensure cleanliness and food safety in food retail outlets and to prevent food-borne diseases.

Examples of businesses that require a Food Shop Licence are: restaurants, cake shops, eating houses, coffeeshops, food courts, snack and drink counters, market produce shops, private markets, food caterers, food shops (pets allowed) and mobile food wagon.

Please note that all new applicants for food catering licences are required to submit an FSMS plan within the first three months of the licence issuance date. For more details, please refer to Singapore Food Authority’s website here.