Division of Hotels and Restaurants

Plan Review Forms

For seating restaurants; take-out/delivery or food courts (nonseating); caterers; mobile food dispensing vehicles; hot dog carts; and theme park food carts.

Plan review is required for food service establishments that are:

• Newly built,

• Converted from another use,

• Remodeled or

• Re-opened after being closed at least 1 year.

If you are not sure if your food service establishment needs a plan review, please call the Customer Contact Center at 850.487.1395. Additional information is available on our plan review web site. Also, see our guidelines for planning your food service operation.

Plan review applicants may be eligible to complete the plan review process electronically. This option is available to anyone with the technological ability to submit high-quality plans drawn to scale, including architectural or engineering plans or blueprints. If you are interested in completing the plan review process electronically, please contact the plan review office at dhr.planreview@dbpr.state.fl.us.

After your plans are approved, you still must be approved for a license. See our licensing web site for more information.

All information on this page is current and was last reviewed by the division on June 24, 2009.

On Completing the Forms Electronically. . .

Plan Review Application Forms

This page contains helpful information about plan review. To apply for a plan review using a paper application, please click this APPLY link.

Guide to LP Gas on Mobile Food Dispensing Vehicles - PDF

DBPR Form HR 5030-035, Division of Hotels and Restaurants' brochure. (January 13, 2004)

Variance Application Procedure – PDF

-DBPR Form HR 5021-102, provides guidance on applying for a variance from sanitary and safety requirements in food service establishments (September 19, 2008)

Variance Request and Operating Procedures – Bulk Food on Open Air Mobile Food Dispensing Vehicles – Word / Fill-in PDF

-DBPR Form HR 5021-101, provides guidance and assistance in applying for a variance from sanitation and safety requirements while serving bulk food on open air MFDVs. For further information about plan review variances, see our webpage.

 

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