Display of a restaurant business

This procedure can also be handled via a "Single Point of Contact". The "Single Point of Contact" is a special service offered by the municipalities and the state for service providers.

• Find your single point of contact here

• Forms: Notification of a restaurant business
• Alternatively, the notification can also be submitted by means of a business notification using the notification forms GewA 1 and GewA 2. The prerequisite is, however, that the business notification is then submitted at least 4 weeks before the first offering of drinks or prepared food and that the business notification states whether alcoholic drinks and/or prepared food are to be served for consumption on the premises.
• Online procedure possible: yes
• Written form required: yes
• Personal appearance required: if applicable

• Form: Notification of a restaurant business

• Identity card or a comparable identity document
• Power of attorney, if applicable
• Residence permit, if applicable
• For legal entities, additionally an extract from the commercial or association register or a copy of the partnership agreement or articles of association
• If serving alcohol:
  • Proof of the application for a certificate of good conductaccording to § 30 paragraph 5 of the Federal Central Criminal Register Act (BZRG) and
  • Information from the Central Trade Register in accordance with § 150 paragraph 1 of the Trade Regulation Act (GewO) or
  • an official certificate of verification of reliability under commercial law as provided for by law.

• § Section 30 (5) of the Act on the Central Register and the Parental Register (BZRG)
• § Section 150 (1) of the Trade Regulation Act (GewO)

Fees are charged depending on the time required.

• General Fee Schedule (AllGO)
• Annex to the General Schedule of Fees (AllGO) / Fee according to time spent

- You notify the competent authority using the form in accordance with the annex to Section 2 (2) NGastG that you wish to operate a restaurant.

- You must indicate whether you also intend to serve alcoholic beverages. In this case, you must also

• enclose proof that you have submitted an application for a certificate of good conduct in accordance with Section 30 (5) of the Federal Central Criminal Register Act and
• submit information from the Central Trade Register in accordance with Section 150 (1) of the Trade Regulation Act.

-If you have registered the restaurant business, the competent authority will forward the information from this to the authorities responsible for building supervision, immission control, youth protection, food monitoring and combating illegal employment as well as to the tax office.

- Before you are allowed to operate a restaurant, you must notify the competent authority at least 4 weeks in advance.

- The authority may permit an earlier start of the restaurant operation if the operator cannot reasonably be expected to meet the deadline.

If the documents are complete, the notification will be processed promptly. The business can be opened 4 weeks after notification, even without further feedback from the competent authority, unless special legal requirements (e.g. building law or food law) prevent this.

The notification does not replace the requirements under other specialist laws (e.g. building permit, food law notification).

• §§ Sections 1, 2 and 3 of the Lower Saxony Catering Act (NGastG)