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What Oklahoma'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.
Persons unnecessary to the food establishment operation are not allowed in the food preparation, food storage, or warewashing areas, except that brief visits and tours may be authorized by the person in charge if steps are taken to ensure that exposed food; clean equipment, utensils, and linens; and unwrapped single-service and single-use articles are protected from contamination;OAC 310:257-3-3(2)
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;OAC 310:257-3-3(3)
- What it means
- Oklahoma'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. OAC 310:257-3-3 makes the person in charge keep people the operation does not need out of the food preparation, storage and warewashing areas, and makes "delivery and maintenance persons" who enter those areas comply with the chapter. Oklahoma's own definition of "Food" names ice and beverages. Its "Employee" definition includes a "person performing work under contractual agreement"; whether that reaches a courier is the open question in the national answer above. Delivery service appears in the definitions only where a food establishment hands food to one.
- Food code
- Oklahoma Administrative Code Title 310, Chapter 257, Food Establishments (OAC 310:257); last amended 39 Ok Reg 1247, eff. Sept 11, 2022 (OAC 310:257)
- Other rules that apply
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"Food" means a raw, cooked, or processed edible substance, ice, beverage, or ingredient used or intended for use or for sale in whole or in part for human consumption, or chewing gum.OAC 310:257-1-2
"Employee" means the license holder, person in charge, food employee, 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 food establishment.OAC 310:257-1-2
"Food employee" means an individual working with unpackaged food, food equipment or utensils, or food-contact surfaces.OAC 310:257-1-2
and that relinquishes possession of food to a consumer directly, or indirectly through a delivery service such as home delivery of grocery orders or restaurant takeout orders, or delivery service that is provided by common carriers.OAC 310:257-1-2 ("Food establishment")
- 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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