A Platform Kitchen Operation or PKO is a delivery or to-go food service. The PKO operates out of a permitted Commissary Kitchen in Nevada County and would not have any dine-in or seating capability for customers/patrons. The operation would strictly be delivery or to-go. The food entrepreneur would have a delivery and/or take-out service where orders are completed online or by phone by the patrons/customers, which will allow the PKO to set specific days and times which orders can be placed.
The PKO and the Commissary Owner(s)/other food operations cannot operate at the same time (meaning the brick and mortar restaurant commissary/other commissary users would not be preparing any food during the time the PKO is operating). The commissary permit holder will be required to submit an operational schedule to EH, signed by both the operator of the PKO and the permit holder of the Brick and Mortar/commissary facility showing the agreed upon operation times for the PKO, Brick and Mortar, and any additional commissary operations.
In addition, the PKO (As well as all other users of the commissary), will be required to sign in and sign out on a commissary usage log each time they use the facility. Each commissary user will have their own sign-in sheet and the commissary owner will submit said sign-in sheets to NCDEH quarterly.
The commissary facility will also allow for long-term storage of its users’ food, utensils, and food equipment and provide designated, segregated, and labeled shelving space for said items.
To allow for retail food sales directly to the public, the PKO would be permitted by NCDEH as a Food Facility-0 Seats-PKO. This means that the public may enter to pick up and pay for the to-go food product, or the PKO will deliver the food product ordered to the customer’s home. Dine-in operations would not be permitted for a PKO operation.
