What UK law and the regulators actually require of a restaurant that publishes.
A restaurant that starts delivering takes on rules dine-in never triggered. Each of the four checkpoints, from launch to the door, carries its own risk if it is missed.
Three nations put the duty on the drain itself; no England food waste rule was located, but discharging without the undertaker's consent is its own exposure.
From 1 October the illegal-working penalty reaches individual sub-contractors and online matching services. Which people in this restaurant are inside the scheme, line by line.
From 1 October 2026 the window for a tribunal dispute with a former member of staff doubles — but only where the 'relevant date' falls on or after that day.
A Saturday-only kitchen porter who calls in sick now costs money, and what it costs turns on a qualifying-days question most small restaurants have never answered in writing.
Operators are told a bottomless brunch is safe because it comes with a meal. The exception they cite was removed in 2014, and the page owners land on still shows it.
Continuing to let a sub-standard commercial building has been unlawful since April 2023 — the penalty is the landlord's, but the lease can send the cost to the tenant.
A new Chapter of ITEPA 2003 can hand a restaurant the PAYE and NIC bill for staff it never employed — but only on three chain shapes, and the ordinary UK agency is not one of them.
In England the 8 °C rule may not govern a hot courier delivery at all — but which branch applies turns on an undefined term, and reading it wrong inverts the risk.
England and Wales scrapped the five-employee test in 2023 — record the whole assessment or risk a penalty. In Scotland and Northern Ireland, any licensed premises is caught.
A fingerprint clocking-in terminal turns payroll admin into special category data. Consent can make it lawful — but only where refusing costs a member of staff nothing.
A plate that counts as exempt packaging in England has no exemption in Wales, where it carries a penalty — and a straw needs a declared health reason, not a simple request.
