The catering service license is not a business license. These are two different certificates.

The catering service license is the business license of the catering industry in China. You need to bring a business license to apply for the catering service license.

a business license is a certificate issued by the administrative department for industry and commerce to industrial and commercial enterprises and individual operators to engage in a certain production and business activities. Its format shall be uniformly stipulated by the State Administration for Industry and Commerce.

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application procedures for catering service license:

1. application: the applicant submits an application to the "food and drug supervision window" of the municipal administrative examination and approval service center.

2. Acceptance: If there are errors in the application materials that can be corrected on the spot, the applicant shall be allowed to correct them on the spot; If the application materials are incomplete or do not conform to the statutory form, the applicant shall be informed of all the contents that need to be corrected at once on the spot, and a Notice of Corrected Materials shall be issued to the applicant; If the application materials are complete and conform to the statutory form, or the applicant submits all the supplementary materials as required, it shall be accepted and a decision on the acceptance of catering service license shall be issued.

3. review: organize on-site review and acceptance according to the standards for the review of catering service licenses.

4. Decision: If the on-site review meets the standards, make a decision to approve the administrative license; Do not meet the standards, make a decision not to grant administrative license and explain the reasons in writing, and inform the applicant of the right to apply for administrative reconsideration or bring an administrative lawsuit according to law.

5. License issuance: If the application materials and on-site inspection submitted by the applicant meet the statutory conditions and standards, a decision shall be made to approve the administrative license, and a Catering Service License shall be issued within the statutory time limit.

reference source

Baidu encyclopedia-catering service license

Baidu encyclopedia-business license.