ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON SETTING UP A RESTAURANT
This website contains links to the additional information mentioned on the web course and the guide for Setting up a restaurant. Please note that all additional information is unfortunately not available in all language versions.
Setting up
- Restaurant business ABC - Guideline for establishing a cafe or restaurant (City of Helsinki)
- Setting up a restaurant or a cafe -construction guide (City Envronment Sector, City of Helsinki) (only available in Finnish and Swedish)
- Hygiene passport and list of proficiency examiners (Finnish Food Authority)
- Publication of food control data -guidelines for Oiva system
- Valvira (National Supervisory Authority for Welfare and Health): Serving alkohol, Alcohol-matters in a restaurant -guideline (only available in Finnish and Swedish), Sale of tobacco (only available in Finnish and Swedish)
- Serving alcoholic beverages (Enterprise Finland) (only available in Finnish and Swedish)
- Application for the sale of tobacco products and nicotine liquids (Regional State Administrative Agency)
- Municipal food control authority in your own municipality -contact info (Finnish Food Authority)
- Finnish Hospitality Association MaRa Ry
- Guidelines and templates of the City of Helsinki for own-check plan and own-check activities
Operations
- Contact information for Centres for economic Development, Transport and the Environment
- Organic production (Finnish Food Authority) (only available in Finnish and Swedish)
- Registration for keeping bees (Finnish Food Authority) (only available in Finnish and Swedish)
- Novel foods (Finnish Food Authority)
- Import of foods from EU countries (Finnish Food Authority)
- Import of foods from non-EU countries (Finnish Food Authority)
- Sales of poultry and rabbit meat (Finnish Food Authority) (only available in Finnish)
- Wild game that has not been inspected by an official veterinarian (Finnish Food Authority) (only available in Finnish and Swedish)
- Guideline on food information (Finnish Food Authority) (only available in Finnish and Swedish)
Staff
- Hygiene passport and list of proficiency examiners (Finnish Food Authority)
- Handling of unpackaged perishable foodstuffs -a table on what is considered to be safe handling of unpackaged perishable foodstuffs and what is not (Finnish Food Authority)
Own-check plan
- Municipal food control authority in your own municipality -contact info (Finnish Food Authority)
- Finnish Hospitality Association MaRa Ry
- Guidelines and templates of the City of Helsinki for own-check plan and own-check activities
- Guidelines on withdrawal of products (Finnish Food Authority)
General
- Guideline on food hygiene in registered food establishments (Finnish Food Authority) (only available in Finnish and Swedish)