Restaurant Food Delivery: A Practical Guide for Entrepreneurs
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Offering delivery enables you to grow your business and during times of lockdowns will help keep your business ticking over. The good news is that you can outsource the delivery service to delivery drivers, Uber Eats for example.
However, if your restaurant directly employs the delivery driver or drivers, then you have the responsibility to make sure they have sufficient food delivery insurance. Standard car insurance does not provide cover for food delivery drivers. Delivery food drivers are at a higher risk of being involved in an accident due to the nature of the job. Delivering hot and fast food quickly and normally in the evening in built up arrears. These factors make them higher risk and not covered by a standard business insurance policy.
Professional insurance in catering: protect your business
As a catering professional, your insurance must necessarily cover any damage that you or your employees could cause to a third party. Professional liability insurance covers you when you are responsible for damage caused by:
For complete coverage of your business, it is also essential to insure your business against operating losses. Concretely, in the event of a claim causing the temporary closure of your fixed or mobile restaurant (water damage, fire, etc.) your insurance compensates for the loss of turnover suffered. Such insurance that allows professionals to maintain the financial situation that was theirs before the disaster, and to resume their activity as soon as possible.
Another useful guarantee to secure your activity: professional legal protection. It allows you to benefit from legal information from legal professionals and to be accompanied, amicably, and in court, in the event of a dispute with a supplier, a client, an employee… in the context of your restaurant business.
Restaurant insurance: guarantees to protect your premises
1. Kitchen, cooking, and refrigeration equipment
The restaurant business requires equipment that is both important and expensive. Your restaurant insurance must therefore protect your equipment and your movable property. Your premises must also be covered, whether it is the room that welcomes customers, your kitchens and your storage spaces.
Before subscribing, check that your insurance covers the main claims. If the risk of fire is the most frequent in catering, you must also be protected against the risk of water damage, accident to electrical devices and natural risks (storm, hail, snow). Protection against vandalism and theft is also strongly recommended.
Depending on your needs, it is possible to take out insurance covering the loss of foodstuffs in the event of a refrigeration appliance failure.
2. Delivery Service
If you have delivery vehicles or a van that supplies food for you, it is essential to take out hire and reward van insurance.
As with the insurance of your activity, auto insurance must cover at least the damage that you can cause to a third party.
Even if insurance against material damage and bodily injury that you (or your staff) may suffer is optional, it is strongly recommended. Depending on your needs, it's up to you to determine your level of coverage, third-party, or all risks. While the third-party formula includes essential guarantees, the all-risk formula includes more comprehensive guarantees such as 0 km assistance, the loan of a vehicle in the event of an accident, breakdown, theft, or even the protection of goods and instruments carried.