SmoothBoarBBQ
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Hey All,
So I've finally got my catering business up and running with the exception of a culinary kitchen. I live in North Carolina and I had some questions about the permitting process so I stopped by the local health department (permits office) and they were giving me some strange answers. They weren't sure but were pretty insistent that if I wanted to sell my food, for catering or vending, that I wouldn't be able to cook it outdoors on a smoker. They were were pretty certain, but not sure, that I would have to cook inside a trailer or some kind of "closed in" area. Has anybody ran into something such as this?
My intention was to hire out a culinary kitchen for the prep work, but of course I'll do the cooking outdoors on my smoker. Unfortunately my town doesn't have a culinary kitchen so I'll have to make a round trip, out of county, to a kitchen about 45 miles away. They also weren't sure if it were legal for me to do this and they had no idea how to write out the permits for this.
Has anybody had similar issues or can anybody give some insight here which would help me? Quite frustrated with this... still looking into my local VFW for a kitchen but they're kind of "waffling" over it at the moment. Thanks.
So I've finally got my catering business up and running with the exception of a culinary kitchen. I live in North Carolina and I had some questions about the permitting process so I stopped by the local health department (permits office) and they were giving me some strange answers. They weren't sure but were pretty insistent that if I wanted to sell my food, for catering or vending, that I wouldn't be able to cook it outdoors on a smoker. They were were pretty certain, but not sure, that I would have to cook inside a trailer or some kind of "closed in" area. Has anybody ran into something such as this?
My intention was to hire out a culinary kitchen for the prep work, but of course I'll do the cooking outdoors on my smoker. Unfortunately my town doesn't have a culinary kitchen so I'll have to make a round trip, out of county, to a kitchen about 45 miles away. They also weren't sure if it were legal for me to do this and they had no idea how to write out the permits for this.
Has anybody had similar issues or can anybody give some insight here which would help me? Quite frustrated with this... still looking into my local VFW for a kitchen but they're kind of "waffling" over it at the moment. Thanks.