# Breakfast-only exemption

A term used when buying bed and breakfast.

The four conditions that let an inn serve breakfast without a food license.

Two of this guide's terms lean on this and neither says it. The room permit says the room count is a permission, and owner-occupied premises says living there changes the financing and the [recast](https://searchspheresource.com/glossary/recast). In Ohio it is also what keeps the kitchen unlicensed. A private home run as a bed and breakfast is excluded from food service licensing if the home is owner-occupied, the guest bedrooms number six or fewer, breakfast is the only meal offered, and no more than sixteen guests are served. Every conventional improvement plan breaks one of the four. A seventh bedroom breaks it. Adding dinner breaks it. Taking a wedding past sixteen breaks it. Hiring a manager and moving out breaks it, which is the whole absentee thesis. What replaces it is a licensed food service operation, with the kitchen build and the inspections that implies.

Part of: Buying a Bed and Breakfast (https://searchspheresource.com/guides/buying-a-bed-and-breakfast)

Source: https://searchspheresource.com/guides/buying-a-bed-and-breakfast/terms/breakfast-only-exemption
Not dated: The same editorial definitions as the glossary, inside a trade.

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