Restaurants & cloud kitchens space in Mumbai: what to check
Food service adds licensing to the usual retail checks. The premises must be eligible for an FSSAI registration or licence, and a dine-in restaurant additionally needs municipal trade licence, fire clearance at the relevant seating scale and, where alcohol is served, an excise licence tied to the address. Physically, the deal breakers are exhaust and chimney routing to the terrace, grease-trap and drainage capacity, water supply, and a sanctioned power load that carries kitchen equipment. Cloud kitchens need far less frontage than dine-in — a first-floor or rear unit with delivery-rider parking often works better and costs less — but still need the same licensing and ventilation.
- Landlord NOC for FSSAI, trade licence and, if needed, excise licence
- Exhaust and chimney duct route to terrace, agreed with the society in writing
- Water supply, drainage and grease-trap provision
- Sanctioned electrical load for kitchen equipment, plus gas bank or cylinder storage rules
- Cloud kitchen: rider parking and pickup access rather than customer frontage
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An FSSAI registration or licence, a municipal trade or health licence, fire clearance at the applicable seating scale, and an excise licence if alcohol is served. Several of these are issued against the address, so the landlord's NOC must be part of the lease.