BMF Vault Blog
Every article is written for one specific problem, cites where its facts came from, and carries a review date — because rules and prices change, and a page that does not say when it was last checked is not worth trusting.
Registration, permits, and what the rules actually say.
You may have been told you need an FDA license. Read the FDA's own rules and you will find that restaurants, catering and street food selling are named as businesses it does not cover, and placed under the LGU instead. Here is exactly where the line sits.
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The order is DTI, then your city hall permit, then BIR — and the barangay step has changed. Here is what each office actually does, what is fixed nationally, and what you have to go and ask about locally.
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