Bakery Licence

The bakery licence is for selling bread and other baked goods.

The bakery licence allows plain bread only, with no other food products such as sausages or luncheon meat. Most bakeries today actually hold a food factory licence: if you want to make bread in the shop and the bread may include meat or milk products, you need a food factory 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. These are government charges, separate from our consultancy fee.

Shop specifications

The restaurant must have a bakehouse of at least 12 sq m for retailing baked goods;
and a separate bakehouse of at least 6 sq m for baking.
Approved building types: shopping centres, shops designated for restaurant use in housing estates, non-industrial commercial buildings / commercial-residential buildings.

Special requirements

These licensed restaurants must apply separately for a bakery licence:

Light refreshment restaurants not permitted to prepare and sell baked goods.
General or light refreshment restaurants with a separate counter for retailing bread and other baked goods baked in the restaurant.

The bakery licence allows plain bread only, with no meat or milk products.

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Bakery licence questions

Does every bakery need a bakery licence?

No, it depends on the type of bread you sell. Most bakeries today actually hold a food factory licence. If you want to make bread in the shop and the bread may include meat or milk products, you need a food factory licence.

Why not a bakery licence, then?

Because the bakery licence allows plain bread only (no other food products such as sausages or luncheon meat). Most shops want to sell a wider range of products, and the bakery licence limits that, so we usually suggest that anyone running a bakery apply for a food factory licence instead.

So when do I need a bakery licence?

If your restaurant wants to serve bread for dine-in, has bread-making machines on site, and you also want to sell the bread as takeaway, you need to apply for a bakery licence together with the restaurant licence.

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