Legal analysis: 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. Food business projects are divided into prepackaged foods sales (including frozen food, excluding frozen food), bulk food sales (including frozen food, excluding frozen food), special food sales (health food, formula food for special medical purposes, infant formula milk powder, other infant formula food) and other food sales; Hot food, cold food, raw food, cakes, homemade drinks and other foods. Specific varieties listed in other food sales and other food manufacturing and selling shall be reported to China Food and Drug Administration for approval before implementation, and clearly marked. Foods that are difficult to be clearly classified in hot, cold, raw, solid and liquid conditions can be classified according to the situation with the highest food safety risk level.

Legal basis: Measures for the Administration of Food Business License

Article 2 Anyone who engages in food sales and catering services within the territory of People's Republic of China (PRC) shall obtain a food business license according to law.

These Measures shall apply to the application, acceptance, examination, decision, supervision and inspection of food business license.

Article 3 The food business license shall follow the principles of legality, openness, fairness, impartiality, convenience and high efficiency.

Article 4 The principle of "one place, one license" shall be applied to the food business license, that is, a food business operator shall obtain a food business license when engaging in food business activities in the business premises.

Article 5 The food and drug supervision and administration department shall, according to the main business forms of food business and the risk degree of business projects, implement classified licensing for food business.

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.