What UK law and the regulators actually require of a restaurant that publishes.
A fire risk assessment bought once from a template and never reviewed leaves a restaurant at risk after a refit, a greasy duct or a new starter who never saw the exit.
Sign the lease too early and you risk paying rent on a restaurant you cannot yet open. This guide puts every UK registration in order, by format, for 2026 to 2027.
Staff with six months' service can claim unfair dismissal from 1 January 2027, and the cap on the compensatory award is removed. This analysis dates each step and prices one disputed dismissal for a 60-cover restaurant.
The Fair Work Agency can ask for hours and holiday records, and a restaurant that fails to produce them risks arrears plus a penalty of twice the amount. This analysis dates each power and prices one case.
A fee that appears one screen too late now risks refunds and a penalty. This analysis follows one restaurant's prices across menu, booking page, checkout and bill, and says what is still untested.
Sick pay now costs money from the first day, tribunal claims run for six months and a harassment duty starts on 30 October 2026 for every employer. This analysis dates every change and costs it for a 45-cover restaurant.
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.
