Help for hospitality, cafés and food businesses
Friendly, free help for cafés, food businesses and hospitality.
Cafés, takeaways, food vans and small restaurants. Here are the free NBHQ guides and tools most relevant to you.
Dedicated hospitality, cafés and food guides are coming. We haven’t written industry-specific guides yet, so this page points you to our existing general guides and tools that fit your kind of business. Tell us what you’d want covered.
Running your business
- Pricing for profit and break-even
- HMRC and Companies House deadlines
- Legal setup: sole trader or limited company
- Data protection and licences
- Separating business and personal money
- Marketing on a small budget
Busy service, lots of small payments
If you take card payments in person, these will help you compare options on fees, contracts and payout speed.
- Compare UK card readers
- Cheapest no-contract card readers
- Amex fees on card readers explained
- How payout speed affects cash flow
- Card readers for market stalls
- Card fee break-even calculator
- Find my card reader quiz
Tools & services
- Payments & card readers
- HR & payroll
- Insurance (info only)
- Business banking
- Accounting & bookkeeping
- Websites & domains
- All tools & services
Looking after you
Your first year, step by step
Our first-year roadmap puts all of this in order.
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Not financial advice: this is general information to point you to our free guides and tools. It is not financial, tax or legal advice. Check the official pages our guides link to, and speak to an accountant or adviser about your situation.
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