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Home Bakery BusinessHow to Start a Home Bakery Business: LLC Setup
Can you sell cakes from home? In Florida, no city can ban your home bakery, but your homeowners association still can. Why an LLC matters for a home bakery, the one sentence your label has to carry, and the key Bizee screens, start to finish, with what Texas, Florida and California each say. Rules change by state and county, so check yours.
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Why an LLC for this business
The bakery itself
Florida's law names an entity, if it bakes at an owner's home
The money
Orders get paid into an account: open it in the LLC's name
The label sentence
TX, FL and CA labels say it's from a home kitchen, plus your name
How to start it, in order
- Pick your menu from your state's rule. Texas bans meat, poultry and a few other foods. Florida and California allow only foods that don't need refrigeration (California: an approved list).
- Check your address: city zoning, HOA and lease. Florida's law doesn't override HOA covenants.
- Take your state's food handler course.
- Form your LLC and get its EIN before anything carries a name.
- Register or get the permit your state requires (California: through your county).
- Design your label: your name, address or registration number, ingredients, allergens, and your state's home-kitchen sentence.
- Buy liability insurance in the LLC's name.
- Pick your channels. Texas online orders must be hand-delivered; Florida bans wholesale.
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