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Liquor Licence Cost in India: Fees by Licence Category
A liquor licence in India is priced by your state, not by the Centre. The spread is wide enough to decide whether a bar is worth opening at all. Delhi is one of the few states that publishes a full schedule. For the 2025-2026 excise year it charges an independent restaurant between ₹7,84,610 and ₹72,18,385
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Bar Licence for a Restaurant: 5 Types and What Each Allows
A bar licence is not one document. Indian states issue several kinds, and the one your restaurant needs depends on what you pour, where you pour it, and who you are allowed to pour it for. Five types cover most restaurants: the independent restaurant licence, the hotel licence, the beer and wine licence, the club
Liquor Licence Rules 2025-2026: Delhi vs Maharashtra Compared
Delhi and Maharashtra both issue a liquor licence to restaurants, and almost nothing else about the two systems matches. Four differences decide what it costs you. Maharashtra publishes a beer-only licence and Delhi’s list has none. Delhi ties a hotel bar licence to the hotel’s room licence. Delhi also prices the licence by how many
GST on Service Charge: Is It Taxable, and at What Rate?
There are two answers to this, and the order they come in matters. Under consumer law, service charge shall not be added to the bill and subjected to GST. That guideline is in force, it has been upheld in court, and it is being enforced against restaurants that ignore it. Under tax law, any amount
FSSAI Licence for Home and Cloud Kitchens: Cost & Documents
A home kitchen or cloud kitchen turning over up to ₹1.5 crore a year needs FSSAI Registration, not a licence. It costs ₹100 a year. Cross ₹1.5 crore and it becomes a State Licence at ₹5,000 a year. That single threshold decides almost everything else: the form you file, the documents you gather, and how
Bar Licence for a Restaurant: 5 Types and What Each Allows
A bar licence is not one document. Indian states issue several kinds, and the one your restaurant needs depends on what you pour, where you pour it, and who you are allowed to pour it for. Five types cover most restaurants: the independent restaurant licence, the hotel licence, the beer and wine licence, the club
Food Safety Drives 2026: What India’s Inspectors Found
Most of the licences suspended during India’s 2026 food safety drives were not first offences. Officers walked back into kitchens they had already written up, found the same faults still sitting there, and suspended the licence on the return visit. That matters far more to your kitchen than any of the seizure totals that ran
7 Violations That Get a Restaurant Licence Suspended
Almost none of them are paperwork. Across the state food safety drives of July and August 2026, the findings that closed kitchens were physical. A fridge running warm. Droppings behind the storage rack. A tub of colour past its date. Paneer that was not paneer. Licences were suspended, improvement notices ran into the dozens, and
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Restaurant Pre-Inspection Checklist 2026: Walk Your Kitchen
Food safety officers do not wander. They move through a kitchen in a fairly predictable order, starting at the door and finishing at the bin area, and the findings cluster at the same nine stops almost every time. So walk it yourself in that order. You will see what they would see, a week or
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GST on Hotel Rooms: Which Slab Applies, and What It Means for Your Restaurant
Hotel rooms sit in two GST slabs, not three. Charge ₹7,500 a night or less and the rate is 5% with no input tax credit. Charge above that and it is 18% with credit. That has been the position since 22 September 2025, when the 12% slab was removed. Anything you read about a 12%
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Liquor Licence in Gujarat: Permit Rules, Cost & How to Apply
Gujarat does not issue a liquor licence to restaurants and bars. There is no application to file and no waiting list to join. The licence you are looking for does not exist in this state. What Gujarat issues instead is a permit held by a person, not by a venue. There is a health permit
Avani Joshi
FSSAI Logo Rules Guide: 8 Things for Packs and Menus
The FSSAI logo never travels alone. Wherever it appears, the 14-digit licence number sits with it, and on a pack it brings a further set of declarations that are not optional. The rules come from the Food Safety and Standards (Labelling and Display) Regulations, 2020, with a separate order covering your bills. The eight items
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How to Download Your FSSAI Certificate From FoSCoS
Your FSSAI certificate is downloaded from the same portal you applied on. Log in to FoSCoS, open Issued License/Registration from the dashboard menu, click your licence number, and save the PDF. It costs nothing. The certificate only appears once the application has been approved. Before that the dashboard shows an application status instead, and that
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How to Apply for a Liquor Licence Online: 6 Steps
There is no single national portal for a liquor licence in India. You apply on your own state’s excise department website, because alcohol is a state subject. Each state runs its own portal, its own licence codes and its own fee schedule. Across the bars and restaurants we work with, the applications that stall are
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Service Charge in Restaurants: What the Law Allows on the Bill
A restaurant in India cannot add a service charge to the bill by default. It can accept one that a guest chooses to pay. Everything about how the line should appear on your bill follows from that single distinction. Across the restaurants we work with, no line on the printed bill causes more confusion than
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