The licenses that you must apply for to open a restaurant are a catering permit and a business license. The others are as follows:

The order of processing is:

1, rental agreement, a copy of the original landlord's real estate license;

2, apply for a catering license from the local Drug and Food Supervision Administration (before June 1, 2009, it was the Health Supervision Institute for a health license), ask them to review the site, and then issue a license after passing the test; (Waiters and cooks also need to do an annual physical examination.)

3, with the food and beverage license to the local Trade and Industry Bureau for business license;

4, the urban areas of large cities, there are individual areas may also want you to apply for environmental protection, public security, fire and other aspects of the documents. If it involves a music restaurant, there is a cultural license; if it involves a coffee, tea house, you also need a security health license; retail liquor retail license is also required. Seven certificates and eight certificates are too many, not to do it all really can't.

1) If you let open a relatively large, fire, environmental protection need to be submitted before the renovation of the renovation drawings application, agreed to renovate before construction, or acceptance of unqualified and then change the trouble.

2) to open the hotel, in addition to tax, industry and commerce, health, fire, security and other departments, but also involves fume emissions, sewage discharge, solid waste, noise and other issues. In this regard, the state has clear provisions. For example: the height of the fume exhaust, location and other specific provisions of the provincial environmental protection department to develop, above the county level, the environmental protection department may, depending on the needs of the situation, supervision and monitoring of the status of fume emissions from catering establishments. Oil smoke unorganized emissions depending on the standard can be exceeded.

On the issue of environmental protection agreements, it is recommended that you directly to the local environmental protection department to consult, if you want to know more about the local environmental protection, you can log on to the local county and city environmental protection bureau website.

5, local tax, state tax tax registration (2 certificates in 1 in the local tax office) and pay taxes, then you can open within one month after the application.

Relating to the cost, because of different policies around the world, the charge is very different. Catering permits cost about 1000 yuan, business licenses cost about 2000 yuan, taxes are levied according to the actual declaration or a fixed amount, fire 500 yuan, security permits 200 yuan, sewage certificates are charged according to the size of the store and the amount of sewage and waste discharge.

About foreigners opening restaurants in Beijing, I also checked for you, there are no special regulations. It should be the same as nationals.