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A business operating in Kitchener may needs a business licence. The cost, requirements and application process depend on the type of business. The business licensing bylaws outline the requirements of each category of business. Inspections from planning, fire, public health, building, and plumbing may be required.

Businesses that need a business licence include permanent businesses such as adult entertainment parlour, alternative massage centre, beauty salon or barber shop, commercial kitchens, convenience store, driving school, farmers market, fireworks vendor, food shop, laundrette or dry cleaner, lodging house, motor vehicle facility, nightclub, old gold, payday loan establishment, permanent vendor, pet care establishment, pet shop, place of amusement, public hall, theatre, and temporary and mobile businesses such as auctioneer, buskers, contractors, food truck, mobile business, pop-up shop, refreshment vehicle, special events, street vendor, temporary vendor.

This dataset identifies current businesses and trades in Kitchener. The search features information based on business name, or address. The following information will be included: business name, business address, business phone number, business category, etc.

The City of Kitchener is committed to supporting citizen engagement and enhancing transparency and accountability to its residents by providing public access to its data. Open data is data that is made freely available to the public in machine-readable format within the agreements of the open data license.