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Business licenses in Dubai
What licenses do I have to apply for opening a cafe in Dubai?

Depending on the nature of the activity a legal entity plans to undertake, business license in one of these categories will be issued:
Industrial License – to be issued to a company that will engage in manufacturing or any industrial activity; Professional License – to be issued to service providers, professionals, artisans, and craftsmen; Commercial License – to be issued to a company that will engage in any kind of trading activity.
In case you would like to establish the legal entity with the principal business activities such a delivery of services related but not limited to sale of soft drinks, for example, coffee, tea beverages and juices to public, delivery of services related but not limited to sale of confectionery products, pastries, biscuits, sweet cakes, ice-creams and other food items to public you have to obtain the Commercial License.
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