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Most often foreign citizens choose to engage in the following types of business in Belarus:
- restaurant business;
- business in the field of beauty - massage, hairdresser;
- trading.
Restaurant business.
If you dream to have your own café in Belarus - you have two options: You can buy a running business or to arrange it from scrach.
The average cost of a small cafe in Minsk is about $15,000.
Buying a running cafe practically means buying a company that rents restaurant premises.
Usually this company already has all the food service permits. When purchasing, you need to check not only the presence of the restaurant itself, the kitchen, but also the legal documents of the company, the presence of all licenses and sanitary certificates.
At first glance, buying an existing business seems like a good idea, but in reality you need to understand the risks. When purchasing a company, you assume full responsibility for what came before you. All the company’s debts and tax obligations, which you may not even know about, are transferred to you. Therefore, conducting a legal audit when purchasing is mandatory. But even an audit is not a one hundred percent guarantee of security, since the former owner of the restaurant can hide some of the documents.
Therefore, I recommend registering your own company in Belarus and concluding a lease agreement with the owner of the premises of the restaurant.
In this case, you will only need to obtain legal documents for your company - a license to sell alcohol and tobacco, a sanitary certificate and agree on working hours with the local executive committee.
It will take approximately one month to receive all these documents, but you will be confident in your safety.
So, to legally operate a restaurant you need to obtain the following documents:
- a license to sell alcohol and tobacco, if you sell alcohol. The requirements for obtaining this license are that the restaurant area is more than 50 square meters. Here I would like to note that an alcohol license is required to sell drinks with an alcohol content of more than 7%.
A license is not required to sell beer and other low-alcohol drinks.
You also need to agree on the operating hours of the restaurant, as well as send documents on the inclusion of your company in the trade register.
You also need to obtain a sanitary certificate from the local health authority. All these documents can be received in parallel without wasting time.
Also, the law of Belarus requires the installation of security and fire alarms in restaurants. If it is already installed, you just need to conclude an agreement on behalf of your company for its maintenance.
These are the basic requirements for restaurants in Belarus. I think they are quite understandable and correspond to global trends.
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