Temporary Food Service Permit Application
A Speedy Process That Doesn’t Compromise Safety and Compliance
Guarantee that food trucks, carts, and stands and other short-term kitchen setups are registered and adhering to the same standards as restaurants and permanent businesses.
Challenge
Culinary establishments, caterers, and sole-proprietor chefs need to be vetted in a short timeframe to ensure that they are suitable to serve at public fairs, auctions, community gatherings, and other special events (e.g., Super Bowl, World Cup, etc.). This process, which often involves multiple departments, must be both fast and thorough, which is virtually impossible when it isn’t digitized.
Solution
The SimpliGov platform provides:
- The power to develop and deliver brand-new application processes quickly
- A user-friendly way for food service companies to provide basic information about their business, food, safety and handling procedures, certifications, and event information
- A seamless end-to-end process — fill, pay, route, automate, sign, and populate — for applicants and employees
- Automatic routing of applications through health, public safety, planning, public works, and other departments involved in the review process, according to the way you do business
- Easy, direct collaboration with applicants and among staff through the platform
- Instant access to status of any application
- The ability to clone and customize workflows for multiple-event applications, nonprofit exceptions, or other similar temporary food service processes — no need to recreate the wheel
- Integration with onboarding processes (e.g., certificate issuance, road closures, traffic management, etc.) upon acceptance of applications
Features Used: Workflow Automation | Smart Forms | Document Generation | SimpliSign | Application Integration | Performance Analytics | Collaboration
SimpliGov in Action
- Intuitive digital form builder with customizable fields, dropdown menus, yes/no buttons, checkboxes, text boxes, and headers
- Prebuilt and tailorable form templates
- Autopopulation of fields (e.g., business address populates upon entry of name or ID number)
- Translation support for dozens of languages
- Workflow automation to route submissions to appropriate personnel in proper order with autogenerated email alerts to prompt reviewers
- Intuitive drag-and-drop designer that allows nontechnical personnel to adapt workflows to their way of working
- Correspondence with citizens and between employees conducted, recorded, and archived through SimpliGov
- Dashboard to retrieve current status of applications
- Generation of reports by food service type, event type, demographic, or other variable
- Integration with payment applications and record databases
- No-code architecture
- SimpliSign electronic signature add-on
Benefits
- More applications reviewed in shorter timeframe — shave days, weeks, or months off processing time
- Sweeping reduction of errors thanks to the elimination of manual data entry
- Optimize staff deployment — employees focus on complex issues, not chasing down approvals, fielding numerous status-check phone calls, or completing bureaucratic tasks
- Easy for business owners and citizens to work with their government
- Compliance with USDA and federal reporting standards
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