Register with your council
Anyone selling food regularly, including from a home kitchen, must register as a food business with their local council. Do it at least 28 days before you start. It is free and the council cannot refuse it.
Real food, made round the corner.
Breadline is a marketplace where home cooks open a kitchen and sell their dishes to people nearby. Collect it yourself, or the cook brings it round.
Coming to the UK. Not live yet: we're signing up cooks first.
For cooks
Your auntie's cooking, on your doorstep.
That is what the people on your street are missing. If you're the one everyone asks to cook, whatever your cuisine, open a kitchen on Breadline and get paid for it.
Your kitchen, your rules
You set the menu, the prices and the days you cook. You choose how food is handed over: customers collect, or you deliver.
You keep 95% of your menu price
Breadline takes 5% from the cook. Customers pay a separate 5% service fee on top.
Paid every week
Your earnings are paid out weekly.
Help with the paperwork
We walk you through registering with your council as a food business. The short version is in the guide below.
Example: one dish at £6.00
- Your menu price
- £6.00
- Service fee, 5%
- + £0.30
- Customer pays
- £6.30
- Your menu price
- £6.00
- Breadline, 5%
- - £0.30
- You keep
- £5.70
An illustration of the fees. You set the real price.
A plain guide
Selling food from home in the UK
Four things to know before you sell your first plate.
The food hygiene rating
After you register, a council food safety officer may arrange to inspect your kitchen. In England, Wales and Northern Ireland you are then given a rating from 0 (urgent improvement required) to 5 (very good). Scotland uses a separate scheme with a Pass or Improvement Required result.
The officer looks at how you handle food, how clean and sound your kitchen is, and how you manage food safety.
Tell customers about the 14 allergens
You must tell customers if a dish contains any of the 14 allergens named in food law. When food is ordered online, that information has to be available before they order and again when the food is handed over.
- Celery
- Cereals containing gluten
- Crustaceans
- Eggs
- Fish
- Lupin
- Milk
- Molluscs
- Mustard
- Peanuts
- Sesame
- Soybeans
- Sulphur dioxide and sulphites
- Tree nuts
Check your insurance
Home insurance usually does not cover selling food from your kitchen. Tell your insurer what you plan to do, and ask about cover for a home food business, such as public and product liability insurance.
This is general guidance, not legal advice. Rules differ a little between England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, so check with your local council before you start.
For eaters
A proper plate for a fiver.
That is the idea: generous, home-cooked food at a price that makes sense on an ordinary weekday, made by someone who lives near you.
From round the corner
Dishes cooked in home kitchens by people in your neighbourhood. Collect from the cook, or have them bring it to your door.
Honest prices
Each cook sets their own prices. We add a 5% service fee, and you see it before you pay.
Allergens on every dish
The cook declares the allergens in every dish, so you can check before you order.
Before we launch
Put your name down.
We are starting with cooks, then opening to customers area by area. Your postcode tells us where to go first.
Cook with us
Tell us a bit about your cooking. We'll be in touch by email.
Get food near me
Join the waitlist. We'll email you when cooks open near your postcode.