Start a Restaurant Business in Bangladesh

The restaurant business is one of the profitable business sectors in Bangladesh. Basically, urban people are very much like their special meals to enjoy of certain moments or like the ones during traditional holidays, business trip, and different kinds of occasions in the country. Entrepreneurs who want to Start a Restaurant Business in Bangladesh should know that there are several steps which needed to fulfill for processing and distributing foodstuffs into the country, businesses need to collect few certificate and licenses from respective authority.

If you want to open a traditional Bangladeshi or foreign restaurant or are planning on delighting locals/ desi with other international cuisines because of large city dwellers are habituated to foreign dishes that’s why a large numbers of Chinese, Thai, Italy, Irish and other countries restaurants are opening their business in Bangladesh.  Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, Chittagong and Khulna are the largest business hub in the country, there huge number of foreigner coming here and enjoying delicious foods at foreign and local restaurants in Bangladesh. Moreover,  Khulna, world’s largest mangrove forest & Royal Bengal Tiger habitat and Cox’s  Bazar, the longest sandy sea beach in the world are bustling tourist spot for suitable to open restaurants, hotel, motel and resorts.

Restaurant operation in Bangladesh is as like other company in the country. For foreign entrepreneurs will need to open a company, generally a limited liability company, and take all necessary steps for company registration from RJSC (Office of the Registrar of Joint Stock Companies and Firms) of legal authority of Bangladesh. Local single investor can open a restaurant business by operating a sole proprietorship business; however, two or more entrepreneurs have to need Limited Company Registration or Partnership Firm Registration at RJSC.

The restaurants produce commercialize food products & beverages  that’s served to mass people for this reason need to follow special health regulations and collect special permission and license from respective Govt. authorities  to operate restaurant business in Bangladesh.

Few documents need for opening a restaurant in Bangladesh.

  1. Incorporation Certificate (for limited Company)
  2. Memorandum of Association and Article of Association ( for limited company)
  3. Partnership Certificate (for Partnership Firm)
  4. Trade license
  5. TIN (Taxpayer’s Identification Number)
  6. NID ( National Identification) card copy
  7. VAT Certificate ( Value Added Tax)
  8. No Objection Certificate
  9. Health Certificate
  10. Fire License
  11. Owner photograph (Proprietor, Managing Director or authorized person of the business)

Sometimes restaurants serve foreign foods to the customers at that moment should be needed Import Registration Certificate (IRC) for importing foreign foods of dedicated customers. Moreover, Restaurants have some opportunities to sell local dish to other countries so there would be essential of Export Registration Certificate (ERC) for exporting local foods & goods. Both ERC and IRC documents are issued by CCI&E (Office of the Chief Controller of Imports & Exports). Now, promising Restaurant entrepreneurs are looking forward to supply in Middle East, European Union, USA, UK and others international markets because of high demand of Bangladeshi/Indian cosine. Restaurant foods and goods export will be one of the leading foreign currency earning sectors within short time of Bangladesh.

Author: Aman123