Insurance for Restaurants

Why do Restaurants need it?

Take a minute to sit back, relax and look at our menu of insurance options for your business. What’s more, you don’t need to shop around to find the best cover solutions. With BizCover, you’ll get multiple competitive quotes from leading insurers within minutes.

Insurance for Restaurants

Public Liability Insurance*

There are many possible accidents that could happen in a restaurant environment.  You should consider protecting your business with Public Liability insurance.  Public Liability insurance is designed to provide protection for you and your restaurant business in the event a customer, supplier or a member of the public is injured or sustains property damage as a result of your negligent business activities.

Personal injury claims could arise from a waiter dropping hot food on a customer, a customer slipping on a melted ice-block on the floor, or a supplier tripping on the plastic mat in the prep area.

Business Insurance*

Even though you can’t insure the ambiance you have created in your restaurant, you can insure the building and all its contents:

• Building* – if you own the building you will want to be able to rebuild or restore quickly. Water damage (pipes burst) or fire (in the kitchen) is a high risk area.
• Contents* – protection for damage to your chairs, tables and other fittings.
• Machinery breakdown* – if you depend on your fridges to keep food fresh you will want to ensure you have cover for them. You can even get an extension to cover loss of stock – so if your fridge motor burnt out and your food was spoiled you can include the cost of these items in your claim.
• Business interruption* – continuity is important in a restaurant. What happens if there are major power outages? Not just immediate impact of days of trading but also potential loss of custom from customers who don’t return.

Management Liability*

If you have employees in your restaurant, you’ll need to cover all your (pizza) bases!

• Ensuring fair treatment in all areas of business is important e.g. protection against bullying and harassment, discrimination and unfair dismissal, EPA Fines.
• OH&S is also an important part of running a restaurant – management liability provides cover for this.
• Correct disposal of waste and garbage is important for small businesses and like all restaurants you will be dealing with grease – if a team member inadvertently disposed of this incorrectly you could be fined.
• While we like to think of all employees as good people, theft in small business is commonplace. Management liability protects against such instances.

Tax Audit*

As a restaurant owner you have enough to keep you busy day and night. Take the stress out of an ATO investigation with this insurance.

Cyber Insurance*

As a restaurant owner your exposure could be at the payment desk – with your Eftpos machine hacked.

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