Additional information on setting up a restaurant

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)