Bakery Licence

For bread and other baked goods sold from a shop, the bakery licence is one option to consider.

Its production scope is plain bread, excluding other food products such as sausages and luncheon meat. Most bakeries instead hold food factory licences: bread made in the shop that may contain meat or milk products requires that licence.

Trust or Company Service Provider licence TC007926

Government fees — bakery

Floor area	New full licence / year	Renewal / year
Up to 100 m²	1,300	2,710
Over 100, up to 150 m²	1,980	3,390
Over 150, up to 200 m²	3,280	4,690
Over 200, up to 250 m²	4,340	6,050
Over 250, up to 1,000 m²	5,670–23,820	7,380–25,530
Over 1,000 m²	38,630–131,960	40,340–134,440

All amounts in HK dollars. A price range covers several official area bands. Your exact fee depends on the premises' floor area. From 1 November 2025, the new full-licence fee excludes the prescribed Fire Services Department fees. Renewal fees are unchanged. Our consultancy fee is charged separately from the government amounts shown here.

Shop specifications

Within the restaurant, provide a bakehouse of at least 12 sq m for baked-goods retail;
baking requires another bakehouse with a minimum area of 6 sq m.
Eligible buildings include shopping centres, housing-estate shops designated for restaurant use, and non-industrial commercial / commercial-residential buildings.

Special requirements

A separate bakery licence is also needed in these licensed-restaurant situations:

A light refreshment restaurant lacks permission to prepare and sell baked goods.
A general or light refreshment restaurant installs a separate retail counter for bread and other goods baked on its premises.

Production under a bakery licence is limited to plain bread, excluding meat and milk products.

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Bakery licence questions

Must every bakery choose a bakery licence?

The bread being sold determines the choice. Most bakeries currently hold food factory licences because bread made on the premises that may contain meat or milk products needs that licence.

Why do we usually suggest a food factory licence?

Only plain bread production falls within a bakery licence; other food products such as sausages and luncheon meat are excluded. Shops generally want a broader product range, so our usual recommendation for a bakery business is a food factory licence.

When should a restaurant apply for both licences?

A restaurant with bread-making machinery that serves its bread for dine-in and also wants takeaway sales needs to apply for a bakery licence alongside its restaurant licence.

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