Home Kitchen Operations

Alabama has never created a microenterprise home kitchen permit. The words "microenterprise" and "home kitchen" return no sections at all in the Code of Alabama, and Ala. Admin. Code…

Alaska has no microenterprise home kitchen permit, and the reason is stronger than silence: 18 AAC 31.020(d) states that the Department of Environmental Conservation will not issue a…

Arizona has no home restaurant permit. There is no microenterprise home kitchen operation licence, no meal count allowance, and nothing in A.R.S. § 36-136(I)(4) that exempts a home…

Arkansas has never created a microenterprise home kitchen category, and it has no exemption that lets a private home cook meals to order for paying customers. A.C.A. §…

California lets home cooks sell meals from their own kitchen under a microenterprise home kitchen operation (MEHKO) permit, capped at 30 meals a day, 90 a week, and $100,000 in annual…

Colorado has no microenterprise home kitchen permit and no exemption that lets you cook meals to order at home for the public. The state food code closes the question from both…

Connecticut has never created a microenterprise home kitchen permit. Conn. Gen. Stat. Sec. 19a-36i(a) requires a permit from the local director of health for any food establishment…

Delaware has no microenterprise home kitchen permit. Cooking meals to order at home for sale is lawful here only if the kitchen falls outside the definition of food establishment, and…

The District does license home cooks to sell full meals, not just shelf-stable goods. Subchapter III-A of Title 7, Chapter 7A, added by the Street Vendor Advancement Amendment Act of…

Georgia has no microenterprise home kitchen permit and no exemption that lets a private house serve cooked meals. The Department of Public Health food service rules make it unlawful to…

Hawaii has no microenterprise home kitchen permit, but it does have a genuine hot-meal carve-out. Hawaii Administrative Rules section 11-50-3(d)(5) exempts a home kitchen operated by a…

Idaho has no microenterprise home kitchen permit and cannot issue one, because the Idaho Food Code flatly bars the premises. IDAPA 16.02.19.620 provides that except for cottage food…

Indiana never created a microenterprise home kitchen permit, so there is no license to apply for and no inspection to schedule before cooking for sale at home. The state went the other…

Iowa is one of the few states that lets a home cook sell meals prepared to order. Iowa Code section 137D.1(4)(b)(2) puts made-to-order food, regularly prepared and promptly served or…

Kansas never created a microenterprise home kitchen permit. Cooking meals to order and selling them from a home kitchen is conducting a food establishment, which K.S.A. 65-689(a) makes…

Kentucky issues no microenterprise home kitchen permit. You cannot buy a licence to cook meals to order in your own kitchen and sell them to the public. The one route that lets a…

Louisiana issues no microenterprise home kitchen permit. LAC 51:XXIII.501(A) forbids operating a food establishment of any type without a valid permit to operate from the state health…

Maine issues no statewide home kitchen operation permit. Instead the Maine Food Sovereignty Act, 7 M.R.S. chapter 8-F, lets a municipality, plantation or county adopt an ordinance…

Maryland has no microenterprise home kitchen permit. The word microenterprise does not appear anywhere in COMAR 10.15.03, the chapter that governs food service facilities, and the four…

Massachusetts has no microenterprise home kitchen permit and no home restaurant category. The one route to serving cooked meals out of a private kitchen is the bed-and-breakfast branch…

Michigan has never created a microenterprise home kitchen permit. The word "microenterprise" returns zero results in a full-text search of the Michigan Compiled Laws, and the only…

Minnesota has never created a microenterprise home kitchen permit, and its food code closes the door from the other side. Minn. R. 4626.1425 says a private home, a room used as living…

Mississippi has created no microenterprise home kitchen permit, and it has not carved a paid-meal exemption into its food establishment rules either. The state's retail food…

Missouri has no microenterprise home kitchen permit and no statute that lets a resident sell meals cooked to order from a home kitchen. A home kitchen escapes regulation only by…

Montana never created a microenterprise home kitchen permit because it went further. The Montana Local Food Choice Act, Mont. Code Ann. §§ 50-49-201 through 50-49-203, bars every state…

Nebraska issues no microenterprise home kitchen permit, and it does not need to, because the Nebraska Pure Food Act simply writes small home meal operations out of the definition of a…

Nevada never created a microenterprise home kitchen operation. The words microenterprise and home kitchen appear nowhere in NRS chapter 580 or NAC chapter 446. What Nevada does have is…

New Hampshire has no microenterprise home kitchen permit, but it does have two real routes to cooking meals for the public in a home kitchen, and both are written into the food service…

New Jersey has no microenterprise home kitchen permit and no way to license a home kitchen as a restaurant. N.J.A.C. 8:24-2.1(c)1 makes the person in charge responsible for ensuring…

North Dakota has no microenterprise home kitchen permit. Cooked-to-order meals sold from a private home run into the food establishment licence in N.D.C.C. 23-09-16, and the Century…

Ohio never created a microenterprise home kitchen permit, so there is nothing to apply for. It solved the same problem from the other end, by exempting home cooking from the food…

Oklahoma is one of the few states where a home cook may sell time- and temperature-controlled food, meaning hot meals rather than only shelf-stable baked goods, with no permit and no…

Oregon has no microenterprise home kitchen operation permit and no meal-count carve-out of the kind Ohio and California use. Cooking meals to order for the public from a residence puts…

Rhode Island never created a microenterprise home kitchen permit, so you cannot register a house to cook meals to order for the public. What the state does have is narrower and…

South Carolina has never created a microenterprise home kitchen permit, so there is no route for selling meals cooked to order out of your own house to the general public. Regulation…

South Dakota has no microenterprise home kitchen permit, and cooking meals to order at home for the general public still requires a Department of Health food service establishment…

Tennessee does not issue a microenterprise home kitchen permit because it does not require one. Under the Tennessee Food Freedom Act, T.C.A. § 53-1-118, producing and selling homemade…

Utah Code § 26B-7-416 lets a resident sell ready-to-eat meals cooked in a home kitchen once the local health department issues a microenterprise home kitchen permit. The core operating…

Vermont does not have a microenterprise home kitchen statute creating a home restaurant with seated diners, but it does license cooking for sale out of a domestic home kitchen. The…

Virginia does not issue a microenterprise home kitchen permit, and it cannot: the Board of Health food regulation at 12VAC5-421-2990 says a private home shall not be used for…

Washington has no microenterprise home kitchen permit. WAC 246-215-08300 bars operating a food establishment without a permit from the local health jurisdiction, and the one permit…

West Virginia has never created a microenterprise home kitchen permit. Searching the Code for "home kitchen" and for "microenterprise" returns nothing at all, so there is no licence a…

Wisconsin has never created a microenterprise home kitchen permit, and it has no exemption that lets you cook meals in your own kitchen and sell them. Wis. Stat. § 97.30(2)(a) requires…

Wyoming does not run a microenterprise home kitchen permit program because it does not require a permit at all. The Wyoming Food Freedom Act, W.S. 11-49-101 through 11-49-104, exempts…