Open your restaurant without surprises
Opening a hospitality business is a hundred tasks in the right order. This checklist lists them all, so you forget nothing and apply for nothing too late.
What's in the checklist
- Every permit you might need, from the operating permit (exploitatievergunning) to the terrace, with the order to apply in
- The Bibob integrity screening: which papers you need to have ready
- The HACCP food safety basics and your registration with the NVWA, the Dutch food safety authority
- What to arrange with the Tax Administration and the Chamber of Commerce (KvK), and when
- The staffing basics: the hospitality collective agreement (cao horeca), contracts and time tracking
- The pitfalls in leases and delivery platforms
Compiled from almost thirty years of opening businesses, in the Netherlands and Belgium. This is the list I use myself in every startup guidance project.