New York — statewide
New York State Department of Health, Bureau of Community Environmental Health and Food Protection
In short
New York State Department of Health, Bureau of Community Environmental Health and Food Protection issues 2 permits we publish for New York — statewide, last verified 2026-09-03. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Food Service Establishment Permit | New York State Department of Health, Bureau of Community Environmental Health and Food Protection | No fee | set by the permit-issuing official, not to exceed two years | 2026-09-03 |
| Food Worker Training — Local Option under 10 NYCRR 14-1.73 (New York)only if it applies to you | New York State Department of Health, Bureau of Community Environmental Health and Food Protection | No fee | set by the permit-issuing official where one is imposed | 2026-09-03 |
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
Food Service Establishment Permit
Delegated, so there is no statewide fee and none is shown here. The permit comes from the county or city health department with jurisdiction; where a county has no health department the state's own regional or district health director issues it instead, and in those cases the state portal lists a band of $75 to $175. New York City is a separate regime under the city health department. The term is unusual and worth planning around: up to two years rather than a fixed annual cycle, with the permit-issuing official setting the length based on your compliance record, the risk your operation presents, and whether you run an acceptable self-inspection programme — so a good record literally buys you a longer permit. One statutory fee does exist statewide and is easy to miss: $25 a year to manufacture frozen desserts for retail sale, collected alongside whatever the local permit costs. Approved day care centres, hospitals and nursing homes need no separate food service permit unless a third party runs the food service.
Food Worker Training — Local Option under 10 NYCRR 14-1.73 (New York)
Under 10 NYCRR section 14-1.73 there is no statewide food handler card in New York and the state charges no fee for one — the opposite of what most states do. The rule is permissive: the permit-issuing official MAY establish training programmes and require owners or operators to attend. That makes it a county question and, in New York City, a city one. A real state mandate does exist but is narrow and sits with a different agency — a retail food store that prepares food on the premises must show that someone in the store has completed an approved food safety programme, unless the store is owner-run with no more than two full-time employees or had under $3,000,000 in gross sales last year. Even there the state approves providers and sets no price.
Contact
- Jurisdiction
- New York — statewide
- Phone
- Not verified — use the website
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.
- 10 NYCRR section 14-1.190 — food service establishment permits, application, fees and the permit-issuing officialNew York State Department of Health · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-03
- 10 NYCRR section 14-1.192 — permit term not to exceed two yearsNew York State Department of Health · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-03
- 10 NYCRR section 14-1.73 — personnel training, which the permit-issuing official MAY establish and requireNew York State Department of Health · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-03
Other New York statewide offices
- New York State Department of State, Division of Corporations, State Records and Uniform Commercial Code
- New York State Department of State, Division of Licensing Services
- New York State Department of Labor
- New York State Department of Taxation and Finance
- New York State Education Department, Office of the Professions
- New York State Office of Children and Family Services, Division of Child Care Services
New York jurisdictions
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