No matter whether the company canteen is operated externally or not, as long as it involves catering, it must apply for the corresponding license, and the operation without the corresponding license belongs to unlicensed operation. The enterprise canteen must apply for a food business license (the catering service license has been changed to a food business license), which shall be handled by the local food and drug administration.

To apply for a food business license, the following conditions shall be met:

1. It has food raw material processing, processing, sales and storage places suitable for the variety and quantity of food it deals in, keeping the environment of the places clean and tidy, and keeping a prescribed distance from toxic and harmful places and other pollution sources;

2. There are business equipment or facilities suitable for the variety and quantity of food to be operated, and there are corresponding equipment or facilities for disinfection, changing clothes, washing, lighting, ventilation, corrosion prevention, dust prevention, fly prevention, rodent prevention, insect prevention, washing, wastewater treatment and garbage storage;

3, full-time or part-time food safety management personnel and rules and regulations to ensure food safety;

4. Have a reasonable equipment layout and technological process to prevent cross-contamination of food to be processed and directly imported food, raw materials and finished products, and avoid food contact with toxic and unclean substances;

5. Other conditions stipulated by laws and regulations.

Article 9 of the Measures for the Administration of Food Business License: 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.

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.

China Food and Drug Administration can adjust the categories of food business items according to the needs of supervision and management.