UtahCottage Food Laws

Yes, and Utah has three paths. Traditional Cottage Food (registration about $50) covers shelf-stable items; the Home Consumption and Homemade Food Act allows broad direct-to-informed-consumer sales; and MEHKO permits a home restaurant for prepared meals. Pick the path that matches your menu.

Traditional Cottage Food registration is about $50. MEHKO, the prepared-meal path, costs more because it is a permitted and inspected home restaurant. The Home Consumption Act path needs no permit for covered direct sales.

Yes — through MEHKO you can prepare and sell hot meals from a permitted home kitchen, and the Home Consumption Act allows broad direct sales of homemade foods. You can deliver yourself; a full commercial storefront is a separate license.

Utah's MEHKO tier — the home-restaurant path — caps output at 30 meals a day and 90 meals a week, under a $100,000 annual revenue limit that adjusts for inflation. It requires a Food Protection Manager Certification and a home-kitchen inspection before the permit issues, then an inspection every year. A MEHKO cannot cater or sell at events, farmers markets, or wholesale.

Beyond the roughly $50 registration, the Traditional Cottage Food path adds a consultation or inspection with the Department of Agriculture and a food handler permit. In return it is unusually broad on venues: online sales and in-state shipping are allowed, and — rare among states — you can sell to retail stores for resale. It excludes refrigerated TCS foods, cream-filled pastries, meat, dairy, eggs, and cut produce.

Utah requires registration before selling cottage food. The listed cost is $50. The cited state sources do not list a revenue cap. Utah allows online orders, in-state shipping, seller delivery for cottage food sellers. Utah also has a path for prepared or time/temperature-control foods, and that path requires a separate permit.

Yes. Utah requires registration before selling cottage food. The listed cost is $50. Check the official state source before selling because local zoning, food safety training, or label rules may still apply.

Utah's basic cottage food rules mainly cover foods that do not need time or temperature control for safety. Utah also has a path for prepared or time/temperature-control foods, and that path requires a separate permit. Common no-go categories include tcs, meat, poultry, dairy, eggs.