What permits do you need to open a coffee shop in Carrollton?

Temporary Food Establishment Permit for Change of Ownership

$75 for fourteen days. This is the bridge permit that lets a business keep trading between contracts exchanging and the new owner's own permit issuing — a fortnight, not indefinitely. If a sale is going to take longer than two weeks to settle, ask the division what happens on day fifteen before you complete.

Farmers Market Permit

Two permits, not one: the market operator pays $150 a year and each concession vendor pays $100 a year. If you run the market you need the operator permit; if you have a stall at it you need the vendor permit; if you do both you need both. Special event food sales are charged separately at $50 per food vendor.

Food Establishment Reinspection Fee

Charged by the hour with a two-hour minimum, so the floor is $90 and there is no ceiling. Most cities in this dataset charge a flat reinspection fee — Garland $200, McKinney $200, Brazos County $100 — and a flat fee is predictable in a way an hourly one is not. Applies where an establishment fails to meet code standards at first inspection.

Food Handler Certification

$10 for the state-accredited food handlers certification. The city also runs its own on-site food service worker class at $80 per class, which is the option worth considering when you are training a whole shift rather than one new hire. The schedule does not state how long a certification lasts; Texas food handler certificates generally run two years, but confirm with the division rather than relying on that.

Shared with other businesses in Carrollton

• Food Establishment Permit — City of Carrollton Environmental Quality Division, $250–$770 per year, by establishment type, 1 year. Also required for restaurants and retail stores; what it involves is set out on the restaurants page.