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Start a restaurant or food business in the UAE.Licensed in UAE free zones · fully remote · priced line by line

Restaurants, cafeterias, catering, food carts, restaurant management: food is one of the most loved businesses founders want to start, and the zones below license a real family of official activities behind it. Because premises and food approvals shape what’s possible, this page works in the honest order: the conversation first, then your itemised price, then the commitment.

Before the price, the honest part.

A food business lives where its customers are, and the zones’ own records show it: many food activities below carry a recorded municipality or food-safety approval, often after the licence. What fits your plan depends on where and how you’ll operate. Talk to us first. The licence is priced now, any approval is scoped with you and charged when it applies, and we walk through all of it before you pay anything.

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AED 4,888*

The licence behind it.

These are the official licensed activities our engine maps to restaurants & food businesses: the exact names the authorities use, and every zone writes its own list in its own words. Our engine recognises them as one business, so your setup is built on the real activity behind it, not a guess. Where a zone’s own record notes an authority approval for an activity, it’s shown beside that zone: the licence is priced now, and an approval’s fee is scoped with you when it applies.

Where it’s licensed.

Free zones on our platform whose official activity lists cover this business, with each zone’s own licence-only starting price.

Ajman NuVentures CentreAjmanSetups from AED 4,888* SPC Free ZoneSharjahSetups from AED 4,999* Ajman Free ZoneAjmanSetups from AED 5,565* ShamsSharjahSetups from AED 5,760* RAKEZRas Al KhaimahSetups from AED 6,000* Innovation CityRas Al KhaimahSetups from AED 6,600* Masdar City Free ZoneAbu DhabiSetups from AED 7,000* Dubai SouthDubaiSetups from AED 12,500* Meydan Free ZoneDubaiSetups from AED 12,500* IFZADubaiSetups from AED 12,900*
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