Rajesh Anandakrishnan

There is no legal way to sell homemade cheesecakes in TN. Your mom needs a commercial license, which would also allow her to take online orders and do interstate sales. http://forrager.com/faq/#commercial

Yes, you can do any direct sales to customers.

You mean food stamps? I really don’t know.

You can run it as a partnership, but each business has the $45,000 sales restriction, so that’d be $22,500 of sales (not profit) max per person.

The requirements don’t change much for Class B. You need to get an inspection so you can sell to stores and restaurants, and you can only do those indirect sales within your county, unless another county…[Read more]

I have talked with a government official in North Dakota, which is the only reason ND is green on the map. Even though they don’t have laws, they regularly allow small producers to run their food businesses from home. I’d say you’d be best off talking to your ag dept and seeing what they allow.

That’s correct — no homemade food may be sold on Etsy or anywhere else online.

You need a commercial license and can’t produce at home: http://forrager.com/faq/#commercial

The letter of the law is that pets cannot ever be anywhere in the building where production is taking place, regardless of where the pets have access. I’ve not sure if your health dept would overlook that or not.

To make even $1 of profit, you need to follow the cottage food law described on this site. That will entail talking to the health dept, registering, submitting labels, etc.
http://forrager.com/law/california/

No, deep fried foods aren’t allowed at all, whether they’re fried on or off site.

Sorry, you can’t sell homemade salsa in CA. http://forrager.com/faq/#commercial

That’s correct — salsa is not allowed.

I did research on it awhile ago, and I recall experts saying that having an LLC doesn’t completely eliminate the owner’s liability. I’m not sure what that refers to, however. I know that an LLC protects the owners much more than a DBA, but the bigger question is whether or not protection is really necessary. If you follow all of the rules, on what…[Read more]

You can’t do that with your home kitchen: http://forrager.com/faq/#commercial