09-05-2007, 06:03 PM
Ed, you may not have been around when beachboy was asking about setting up as a food vendor (use the search feature " Certified Kitchen " to find the March discussion) anyhoo this is excepted from a post then "As Carrie pointed out, many places (esp. some churches) have Cert. Kitchen & rent them out. In fact, many rummage sales that are at venues that do not have a cert. kitchen often rent out one to produce their bentos 'n' such - that is what our church currently does as they are in the throws of updating their very dated facilities (which also includes updating from cesspool & much else)...
if you don't want to establish a certified kitchen, you may want to check out some of the public venues in HPP to see if they have a rental kitchen available...may make it a more affordable entry if you want to 'try the waters' without jumping into the full Health Dept. regs. Although some of the vendors may not be using cert. kitchens, it is required if you are supply food to the public, our church was told that even to supply free coffee to people waiting for a rummage sale would need a cert. kitchen...the big question would then be, will you get caught? and do you care? (Something you may want to ask if you are BUYING the food from a vendor...if the cook doesn't care....)
the state site, which includes vendor permits, fees & such:
http://www.hawaii.gov/health/environment.../11-12.pdf
and here is a temporary vendor application:
http://www.hawaii.gov/health/environment...aleapp.pdf
if you don't want to establish a certified kitchen, you may want to check out some of the public venues in HPP to see if they have a rental kitchen available...may make it a more affordable entry if you want to 'try the waters' without jumping into the full Health Dept. regs. Although some of the vendors may not be using cert. kitchens, it is required if you are supply food to the public, our church was told that even to supply free coffee to people waiting for a rummage sale would need a cert. kitchen...the big question would then be, will you get caught? and do you care? (Something you may want to ask if you are BUYING the food from a vendor...if the cook doesn't care....)
the state site, which includes vendor permits, fees & such:
http://www.hawaii.gov/health/environment.../11-12.pdf
and here is a temporary vendor application:
http://www.hawaii.gov/health/environment...aleapp.pdf