What permits do you need to open a restaurant in Chesterfield County Va?

BPOL Alcohol Add-On Tax — Limited Mixed Beverage Restaurant

A restaurant holding Virginia ABC's 'Limited Mixed Beverage Restaurant' sub-classification owes this lower county add-on instead of the standard mixed-beverage add-on above: $100 a year for 100 seats or fewer, $250 for 101 to 150 seats, and $400 for more than 150 seats (Code § 6-39.1(a)(1)-(3)). These three figures are likewise an exact, figure-for-figure match to the ceiling Code of Virginia § 4.1-233.1(A)(3)(g)(1)-(3) sets for this specific ABC sub-classification and seating tiers. The restaurant must already hold the active state ABC limited mixed-beverage license before this county tax applies (Code § 6-39.1(b)). Chesterfield has no incorporated towns, so this tax applies the same way everywhere in the county.

BPOL Alcohol Add-On Tax — Mixed Beverage Restaurant

A restaurant holding a Virginia ABC mixed-beverage license owes this county add-on tax on top of its regular BPOL restaurant tax: $200 a year for 100 seats or fewer, $350 for 101 to 150 seats, and $500 for more than 150 seats (Code § 6-39(a)(1)-(3)). Unlike the beer/wine add-on above, these three figures are an exact, figure-for-figure match to the ceiling Code of Virginia § 4.1-233.1(A)(3)(a)(1)-(3) sets for this exact license category and seating tiers — the county has simply adopted the maximum the state statute allows, rather than setting its own lower figure. The restaurant must already hold the active state ABC mixed-beverage license before this county tax applies (Code § 6-39(b)), which the Classification Affidavit (Q9) also asks about. Chesterfield has no incorporated towns, so this tax applies the same way everywhere in the county.

Temporary Food Establishment Permit

A food vendor, including a food truck, selling food at a one-off event in Chesterfield County uses the Temporary Food Establishment Permit instead of the standing food-establishment permit: $40 per event, the same 2011 effective date as the district's other published food fees, with the application filed at least 10 business days before the event. This permit is issued by the Chesterfield Health District, a Virginia Department of Health field office, and covers the event-based case that a mobile unit's standing annual permit does not. No separate food-truck-specific fee line exists in the district's published fee table beyond this general temporary-event figure and the standing permit recorded above.

Food Establishment Permit

One flat $40 for the whole state, which is unusual and cheap — and the fee's authority is the Appropriation Act rather than the food statute, so anyone looking for it in Title 35.1 or in the food regulation will not find it there. A new restaurant pays $80 in total, plan review plus permit, and the combined fees are capped at $80 a year per facility. Apply at least thirty days before opening. A permit is not transferable, so a change of ownership means a fresh $40. Ten localities adopted their own food ordinances before 2022 and permit independently — Alexandria, Arlington, Danville, Fairfax County, Hampton, Hopewell, Norfolk, Petersburg, Portsmouth and Roanoke — and some add real money on top: Fairfax charges $100 for a preliminary inspection and $80 for a change of ownership. Retail food stores and manufacturers are a different regime entirely, run by the agriculture department, where the permit is free and the annual inspection is $40.

Certified Food Protection Manager

No state fee — Virginia neither issues the certificate nor charges for it; an accredited programme does both. At least one employee with supervisory and management authority must hold it, but the rule carves out establishments serving only food that needs no temperature control, and those that merely reheat or cold-hold commercially processed food, provided they do not cool it. The five-year validity people quote is the certifying programme's rule, not Virginia's — the regulation sets no term. Virginia requires no food handler card statewide either, and the department publishes a table of the twelve localities that do impose one, all of them in Hampton Roads and the Peninsula.

Shared with other businesses in Chesterfield County Va

• BPOL Alcohol Add-On Tax — Beer and Wine Retailer — Chesterfield County Commissioner of the Revenue, $20 a year, flat, in addition to the retail BPOL tax, annual. Also required for coffee shops and retail stores; what it involves is set out on the coffee shops page.
• Food Establishment Permit — Virginia Department of Health, Chesterfield Health District, Plan Review Fee $40 (one-time, before construction or remodel) plus Annual Permit Fee $40 a year., annual. Also required for coffee shops and food trucks; what it involves is set out on the coffee shops page.