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What New Jersey's food code requires
The restaurant's person in charge must keep people its operation doesn't need out of its food prep, storage and dishwashing areas. Delivery and maintenance people who do go in have to follow the food code.
That persons unnecessary to the retail food establishment operation are not allowed in the food preparation, food storage, or warewashing areas.NJ Dept. of Health
That employees and other persons such as delivery and maintenance persons and pesticide applicators entering the food preparation, food storage, and warewashing areas comply with this chapter.NJ Dept. of Health
- What it means
- New Jersey's code puts this duty on the restaurant's person in charge, not on the driver. It has no rule aimed at delivery drivers themselves. The "retail food establishment" definition covers food provided "indirectly to consumers through a delivery service."
- Food code
- N.J.A.C. 8:24 (state code; FDA 2001 basis) (NJ DOH Chapter 24)
- Food handler card
- No card; CFPM for Risk Type 3 (8:24-2.1(b))
- Other rules that apply
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the operator, person in charge, person having supervisory or management duties, person on the payroll, family member, volunteer, person performing work under contractual agreement, or other person working in a retail food establishment.NJ Dept. of Health
Drinking cups and containers may be reused by self-service consumers if refilling is a contamination-free process.NJ Dept. of Health
- Sources
- Last verified
- October 26, 2026
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Not legal advice. This is general information. Local (city or county) health departments can have stricter rules than the state. Check with your local health department. Last verified October 26, 2026.
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