I would like to start a bakery, dealing in the following items, in the following manner:

1.Baked Goods

2.Breads, Fudge, Cinnamon Rolls, Jams

3.Home based buisness cooking and selling out of my own home in Cottrellville Township Michigan.

I will possibly be selling at city festivles also as a peddler?

You will need the usual licensing, with a bit of a twist.

Health Permits are two flavors of fun. One is the aforementioned schedule of semi-random inspections, which can get you shut down if you fail, but the other is the initial permit, which reviews and certifies your location as being a legal location to produce food in the first place.

Your traditional Transient Merchant Permit is a license you must carry one your person at all times when peddling your wares on the street or street corner in a Dickensian manner. Once you have it, your are legally required to not only have it all times, but to be able to present when required imediately. Like car insurance.

You are selling food, on a local level, on the go, as a result, in addition to the standard spread, you are going to need some special additions to your order.

The two key pieces you will need to obtain will be a Health Permit, and a Transient Merchant License.

Your Health Permit is required first at the state level, but rolls all the way down the county, and doesn't stop once you have it in your hands. As soon as you have, you need to be prepared for regular inspections, and that's prepared in CAPS.

Now if you're going to be selling at city festivals and/or as a peddler, you are also going to need a Transient Merchant license, or the nearest equivelant. These are the same licenses that hot dog pedllers have to get, and for the same reason.

07 - Here are the licenses and tax ids you are legally required to obtain before starting business operations:

1. A business tax registration license

2. A DBA assumed business name

3. A federal tax id number if you are a partnership or you want to use it instead of you social security number to open a bank account. Also, note that forming an llc or incorporating eliminates the requirement of getting a dba. It is a good idea to form an llc to avoid personal liability from business transactions.

 You can apply for all these permits and more online at www.businessnameusa.com

Simply fill out our online questionaire, complete our business information form, leaving blank only those fields to which you do not possess the answer, and then complete our payment information form and we will begin processing your order imediately.

 www.businessnameusa.com

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Long Beach, CA. 90853

310-455-6675

 Getting a Health Permit is not really something you don't do. You can opt to not do it, but by doing so, you will have borken the law. That is illegal by truism. Even further, It will get you shut down, fined, jailed, and blamed for every case of food poisoning within twenty miles.

Without a Transient Merchant Permit you will be arrested for selling baked goods on street corners, and being in jail for selling back alley fudge tends not to impress hardened criminals. This may seem unlikely, but police departements across the country are cracking down.

 All these permits and more cost a total of $379.96