Kansas — statewide
Kansas Department of Agriculture, Division of Food Safety and Lodging
In short
Kansas Department of Agriculture, Division of Food Safety and Lodging issues 2 permits we publish for Kansas — statewide, last verified 2026-09-04. Each carries the fee as the agency publishes it, with a link to the schedule it was read from.
What this agency issues
| Permit | Issuing agency | Fee | Renews | Last checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Certified Food Protection Manager (optional, not mandatory)only if it applies to you | Kansas Department of Agriculture, Division of Food Safety and Lodging | No fee | not applicable | 2026-09-04 |
| Food Establishment License | Kansas Department of Agriculture, Division of Food Safety and Lodging | $250–$750 a year, banded by the establishment's square footage, up to statutory ceilings | annual | 2026-09-04 |
Fees shown as a range or formula are set that way by the issuing agency — we do not average them into a single number.
About each permit
Certified Food Protection Manager (optional, not mandatory)
No fee, because Kansas gives the person in charge three separate ways to demonstrate food safety knowledge at inspection, and certification is only one of them: having no priority violations that day, holding certified food protection manager status from an accredited programme, or simply answering the inspector's questions correctly. There is no mandatory statewide food handler card behind any of these paths, and no state exam or state fee — a manager certificate, where a business chooses that route, is bought from an accredited private provider at that provider's price.
Food Establishment License
Statute sets these as ceilings rather than fixed points — up to $250 a year for a facility under 5,000 square feet, up to $300 from 5,000 to under 10,000, up to $500 from 10,000 to under 50,000, and up to $750 for anything larger, on top of a one-time application fee capped at $350. What the agriculture department actually charges could sit anywhere at or below those figures. The department may contract with a city or county to carry out inspection and enforcement on its behalf, and where it does, the law forbids that local government from charging its own separate fee for the same service — so a delegated inspection does not mean a second bill.
Contact
- Jurisdiction
- Kansas — statewide
- Phone
- (785) 564-6767
Contact details are taken from the agency’s own site or its published fee schedule. Where we have not verified a phone number we leave it blank rather than guess.
Sources
Every fee and term above was read from one of these government pages on the date shown.
- Kansas Food Code — the person-in-charge knowledge requirement, of which certified food protection manager status is one of three optionsKansas Department of Agriculture · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-04
- Kansas Statutes section 65-688 — the statutory ceilings on food establishment application and license feesOffice of Revisor of Statutes · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-04
- Kansas Statutes section 65-692 — the secretary of agriculture's authority to delegate food inspection to a municipalityOffice of Revisor of Statutes · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-04
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