What permits do you need to open a restaurant in West Jordan?

There is no single figure, and any site quoting one is rounding away the part that matters. Of the 15 records listed for a restaurant in West Jordan, UT, 9 apply to every business of this type and 6 are conditional. Adding every fee on the page together would overstate what most operators pay, because it would include permits they never need.

Of the 9 that always apply, 1 carry a flat fee, coming to $290.00. That is a floor, not a total. 6 of the 15 are charged as a range or a formula set by the issuing agency, and 3 have no fee published at all. The ones that vary:

General Business Licence: A single flat 'Business' category, expressly captioned 'not to exceed $2,000' on the fee schedule: a $163/year base fee plus $8/year per employee (capped in total at $2,000), plus a separate one-time, nonrefundable $55 application fee. This is the only category that applies to nine of this project's ten tracked industries — the fee schedule's other named Business Licensing categories (Home Occupation, Alcohol Licensing, Pawn Shops, Rental Dwelling Units, Solicitor, Sexually Oriented Business, Vending Machine, and Vendor License) do not match a restaurant, retailer, contractor, childcare centre, salon, fitness studio, veterinary clinic or ordinary auto-repair shop; a food truck is the one exception, recorded separately below.

Building Permit (Commercial): Priced by total project valuation (per the International Code Council's Building Valuation Data as of July 1 each year): $1-$2,000, $60.50 plus $3.70 per additional $100 (or fraction) after $500; $2,001-$25,000, $116.00 plus $16.90 per additional $1,000; $25,001-$50,000, $505.00 plus $12.20 per additional $1,000; $50,001-$100,000, $810.00 plus $8.45 per additional $1,000; $100,001-$500,000, $1,233.00 plus $6.76 per additional $1,000; $500,001-$1,000,000, $3,938.00 plus $5.75 per additional $1,000; over $1,000,000, $6,803.00 plus $3.80 per additional $1,000. A 1% state surcharge and a $12-per-permit processing fee both apply on top. Non-Residential plan review is 65% of the building permit fee. Electrical, plumbing and mechanical work is priced separately as a Miscellaneous Minimum Permit at $70 each.

Sign Permit (Sign Review): Priced by sign valuation on the Planning and Engineering 'Sign Review' table: $1-$500, $35 flat; $501-$2,000, $35 plus $2.00 per additional $100; $2,001-$25,000, a $65 base fee (the table's own per-$1,000 additional rate for this tier did not render legibly in the retrieved copy of the fee schedule); $25,001-$50,000, $345 plus $8 per additional $1,000; over $50,001, $525 plus $6 per additional $1,000. Bus bench signs are $60; bus shelters $90; off-premises development/construction signs $300; a Planning Commission Review is $500; temporary sign review is $35. Installing a sign without a permit doubles the fee.

Commercial Business Fire Inspection: The fee schedule's own table is internally contradictory as of this file's retrieval date. It lists a 'Commercial Bi-Annual Business Inspection' (charged every two years), by employee count: 0-10 employees $88, 11-50 employees $242, more than 50 employees $330 — each figure carrying a parenthetical stating it 'will revert to $44 / $121 / $165 January 1, 2026' when the inspection itself reverts from a two-year to an annual cycle. That reversion date has already passed as of this document's own 'Updated June 23, 2026' revision, which still prints the higher, bi-annual figures as current without updating the now-past-tense reversion language. Which set of figures — and which billing frequency — is actually in effect today could not be determined from the published schedule alone. A 2nd re-inspection after an initial violation is free; a 3rd and subsequent re-inspection is $175 each; inspection reports are $15 each.

Food Establishment Permit: Priced by risk level, assigned by the Food Protection Bureau at application: Risk Level 1 (includes Shaved Ice Stand, Self-Service Mobile, Venue Cart) $275; Risk Level 2 (includes Venue Cart) $405; Risk Level 3 (includes Venue Cart) $555; Risk Level 4 $770. A new, converted or remodeled facility separately owes a plan review fee: Level 1 $580, Level 2 $870, Level 3 $1,140, Level 4 $1,345. A failed inspection or follow-up inspection is $155.

Food Handler Card: Fee set by the training provider and the local health department — not independently confirmed here

Permits for a restaurant in West Jordan, UT come from 8 separate offices: City of West Jordan Finance Department, Business Licensing Division, City of West Jordan Community Development Department, Building & Safety Division, City of West Jordan Community Development Department, Planning and Zoning Division, West Jordan Fire Department, Salt Lake County Health Department, Environmental Health Division (Food Protection Bureau), Utah Division of Corporations and Commercial Code, Utah State Tax Commission, Utah Department of Agriculture and Food, Regulatory Services Division. No single office issues them all, which is why an opening means filing in several places rather than one.

• City of West Jordan Finance Department, Business Licensing DivisionIssues 1 permit on this page: General Business Licence8000 South Redwood Road, West Jordan, UT 84088 · (801) 569-5010westjordan.utah.gov/business-licensing
• City of West Jordan Community Development Department, Building & Safety DivisionIssues 2 permits on this page: Building Permit (Commercial), Certificate of Occupancy8000 South Redwood Road, West Jordan, UT 84088 · (801) 569-5050www.westjordan.utah.gov/community-development/development-application-and-permits
• City of West Jordan Community Development Department, Planning and Zoning DivisionIssues 2 permits on this page: Sign Permit (Sign Review), Zoning Verification Letter8000 South Redwood Road, West Jordan, UT 84088 · (801) 569-5060www.westjordan.utah.gov/community-development/development-application-and-permits
• West Jordan Fire DepartmentIssues 2 permits on this page: Commercial Business Fire Inspection, Kitchen Hood Plan Review/Inspection7602 S. Jordan Landing Blvd., West Jordan, UT 84084 · (801) 840-4000www.westjordan.utah.gov/fire
• Salt Lake County Health Department, Environmental Health Division (Food Protection Bureau)Issues 1 permit on this page: Food Establishment Permit788 East Woodoak Lane (5380 South), Murray, UT 84107 · (385) 468-3845www.saltlakecounty.gov/health/food-protection
• Utah Division of Corporations and Commercial CodeIssues 4 permits on this page: General Business Licence (not required by Utah), Certificate of Organization (LLC), Articles of Incorporation, Annual Renewal160 East 300 South, Salt Lake City, UT 84111 · (801) 530-4849corporations.utah.gov
• Utah State Tax CommissionIssues 1 permit on this page: Sales and Use Tax Licence210 North 1950 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84134 · (801) 297-2200tax.utah.gov
• Utah Department of Agriculture and Food, Regulatory Services DivisionIssues 2 permits on this page: Food Service Establishment Permit (local, not state), Food Handler Card4315 South 2700 West, Taylorsville, UT 84129 · (385) 332-1499ag.utah.gov/regulatory-services/retail-food-regulatory-program

Mandatory for any person engaging in business within city limits (Ord. 23-25, § 4-1B-1). Zoning, Building & Safety and Fire Department sign-off are all required before a licence issues, per the city's own Commercial Business License checklist. A building contractor with no retail sales and no actual business location in the city is exempt from paying this fee (though must still apply) under § 4-1B-19.A — see the separate contractor record below for the full condition. Insurance companies paying state licence fees and nonprofit/charitable organizations are also fee-exempt under the same section. The city's own checklist still lists a $53 application fee, which is stale — the current fee schedule's $55 figure is used here.

Applied for through the city's Development Public Portal. Commercial project reviews allow up to 21 business days; corrections are reviewed within 5 business days. A demolition permit is a flat $175; a manufactured home building permit is $250.

The city's own Commercial Business License checklist tells applicants that sign permits are required for changes to any existing permanent sign and for temporary signs (banners, A-frames, streamers) alike, and that failure to obtain one will delay business licence approval. Contact Planning & Zoning at (801) 569-5060 before installing.

The city's own Commercial Business License checklist recommends contacting Planning & Zoning (801-569-5060) before applying for a business licence, to confirm zoning requirements and possible restrictions on the intended location. A more involved 'Zoning Administration/Interpretation/Determination' is billed separately at $100/hour, and a full Zone Change is $3,214 — this file records those as related but distinct products rather than assuming one figure covers all three.

Unlike Salt Lake City and West Valley City, both of which record no published Certificate of Occupancy fee anywhere in their own fee schedules, West Jordan's own Consolidated Fee Schedule prices this inspection directly at $290. It is unlawful to use or occupy a building before this certificate is approved. Confirm with Building & Safety (801-569-5050) whether a temporary certificate (available for projects not yet fully complete) carries the same fee.

A center-based (commercial) childcare facility is billed under these same employee-count tiers, not the separate $44 Home Childcare Facility line recorded below, which this file's research could only confirm applies to home-based daycare.

A named, restaurant/coffee-shop-specific Fire Department line for any commercial kitchen exhaust hood, separate from and in addition to the general Commercial Business Fire Inspection recorded above.

West Jordan has no health department of its own; this is the delegated county-level food-permitting authority, currently named 'Salt Lake County Health Department' since 2013 — the city's own Commercial Business License checklist (last updated 09/2020) still instructs applicants to contact the 'Salt Lake Valley Health Department,' the same retired name Salt Lake City's own site was found using. Plan review requires a minimum of 10 working days and must be approved before construction or remodeling begins. A coffee shop preparing and serving food or beverages for immediate consumption is licensed the same way as a restaurant.

No fee, because Utah's state-level structure is entity registration rather than business licensing — the Division of Corporations frames the question as whether another unit of government requires registration, not as a licence the state itself grants for the right to operate. A city or county licence is the thing that actually functions as a general business licence for most Utah businesses.

Fifty-nine dollars, the same figure whether the entity is domestic or registering in from out of state. A corporation costs the identical $59 to form.

The same $59 as an LLC, and a nonprofit corporation costs the same again.

Eighteen dollars a year, the same figure for an LLC or a corporation, due in the entity's own anniversary month rather than a single date shared statewide. Missing it is not immediately fatal: the statute gives sixty days from the division's notice to cure before administrative dissolution follows, and reinstating after dissolution costs $54 for an LLC or a corporation. A dissolved entity's name, and any assumed names filed under it, cannot be reused by anyone else for two years afterward.

No fee — the state's own combined business and tax registration form lists a line for the sales and use tax licence alongside every other tax account a business might need, and nowhere on the form does a dollar amount attach to it. Once registered, a business is assigned a filing cycle, monthly, quarterly or annual, and must file on that cycle even in a period with no sales.

No state fee, because a food establishment engaged primarily in service for immediate consumption is placed by the state agriculture department's own published guidance under the jurisdiction of the local health department where it operates, not under the state's own retail food registration. Utah has thirteen local health department jurisdictions, each setting its own fee under a shared statewide minimum sanitation standard. Confirm the figure with the specific local health department rather than assuming a statewide number, because none exists.

A food handler card is required, and it must come from a provider on the state's own approved list — the agriculture department publishes that list directly and states plainly that a card from an unapproved source will not be accepted by a local health department. What is not recorded here as confirmed fact is a specific dollar figure or validity period: both a roughly $15 fee and a three-year term are widely repeated online, but neither could be verified against the rule's own text, so no number is asserted here. Confirm the current fee and term with a specific approved provider or the local health department before budgeting for it.