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Selling food at festivals/markets etc

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  • 01-11-2014 4:54pm
    #1
    Help!!!!
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    Need some help with what I need
    I know what food I would be selling
    I know I would need a gazebo, something to cook on, a couple of fold up tables, a trailer

    Any other ideas?


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    delahuntv
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,532 ✭✭✭delahuntv


    Food licence/ Food registration from HSE (free).
    Public Liability insurance.

    Without them you won;t be permitted to sell at any market/festival.

    Probably best to ask a non competing food seller at a market what they needed.


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    Help!!!!
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    delahuntv wrote: »
    Food licence/ Food registration from HSE (free).
    Public Liability insurance.

    Without them you won;t be permitted to sell at any market/festival.

    Probably best to ask a non competing food seller at a market what they needed.

    yeah will be getting in touch with some markets to see what's needed.
    does all equipment need to be stainless steel?


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    delahuntv
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,532 ✭✭✭delahuntv


    Help!!!! wrote: »
    yeah will be getting in touch with some markets to see what's needed.
    does all equipment need to be stainless steel?

    all equipment should be washable - sink needs to be big enough to imerse pots.

    Loads of rules and regs - but if you know your food most of it will come across as common sense as the rules are there to protect customers from getting bad ill.

    Contact your local HSE office - lads of info here http://www.hse.ie/go/environmentalhealth/


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    Help!!!!
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    delahuntv wrote: »
    all equipment should be washable - sink needs to be big enough to imerse pots.

    Loads of rules and regs - but if you know your food most of it will come across as common sense as the rules are there to protect customers from getting bad ill.

    Contact your local HSE office - lads of info here http://www.hse.ie/go/environmentalhealth/

    Do you still need a sink if your not using pots? There wont really be any washing up as such


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    delahuntv
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,532 ✭✭✭delahuntv


    every case is different - you would need to ask HSE, but I would guess you would have to, even for washing hands & usually a different sink for hands & food if you need to wash food or containers.


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    suirvale
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    i been around long time in business.
    seriously i would advise you to get Trading no matter what.
    Whether its on an old barrel in car boot or farmers creamery, but just get standing on front of customers Belly2Belly,.
    plead ignorance to rules and regulations in a nice way tell a few fibs,.,.


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    delahuntv
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,532 ✭✭✭delahuntv


    suirvale wrote: »
    i been around long time in business.
    seriously i would advise you to get Trading no matter what.
    Whether its on an old barrel in car boot or farmers creamery, but just get standing on front of customers Belly2Belly,.
    plead ignorance to rules and regulations in a nice way tell a few fibs,.,.

    and if a customer gets food poisoning, just brush it away?

    now that is STUPID. - Probably the most stupid of all comments I've seen this year.

    But then again, some people have a total disregard for rules/regulations, other people heath etc

    Food safety regs are not onerous - VERY easy to implement and registration is FREE.

    Only an absolute eejit would risk what suirvale suggests. - And thankfully the OP sees to be more intelligent than that.


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