Do tobacco and liquor stores have to apply for food licenses?

Legal analysis: A tobacco hotel needs to apply for a food business license, a tobacco monopoly license and a business license for individual industrial and commercial households.

Legal basis: Measures for the Administration of Food Business License

Article 9 To apply for a food business license, one should first obtain the qualifications of a legal subject such as a business license.

Enterprise legal person, partnership enterprise, sole proprietorship enterprise, individual industrial and commercial households, etc. The applicant is the subject specified in the business license.

For canteens of government agencies, institutions, social organizations, private non-enterprise units, enterprises and other tendering units, the applicant shall be the subject specified in the registration certificate or business license of the registration certificate of government agencies, institutions and social organizations as legal persons.

Article 10 An application for a food business license shall be made according to the business forms of food business entities and the classification of business items.

The main formats of food business are divided into food sales operators, catering service operators and unit canteens. Where a food business operator applies for operating through the network, setting up a central kitchen or delivering food collectively, it shall be indicated in brackets after the main business formats.