Seating in front of shops and building facades
Anyone wishing to set up seating for customers in front of shops and building facades requires a permit.
Description
If you would like to set up seating for your customers on the pavement during shop opening hours, you can submit an application online. Please note the requirements below. However, these are not open-air bar areas for catering with food and drinks for a fee. Information on this can be found online.
As a trader, you may offer your customers a free coffee or water (non-alcoholic drinks) in front of your shop as well as in the shop to make the waiting time more pleasant.
Prerequisites
- Only a small amount of furniture may be set up
- The maximum projection must not exceed 80 cm and the area must be less than 10 square metres.
- The furniture may only be placed directly against the building façade.
- Chairs and benches are permitted, but no beer benches or upholstered furniture.
- The furniture may only be set up during statutory shop opening hours (Monday to Saturday 6 a.m. to 8 p.m.).
- Outside of shop opening hours, storage must take place on private property.
- You may not charge money for catering; only the free distribution of non-alcoholic drinks to waiting customers is permitted.
- You may not display any advertising signs.
- A passage width must be left: At least 1.60 metres for pure footpaths, at least 1.90 metres for adjacent cycle paths, at least 2.30 metres for sloping or perpendicular parking spaces
Required documents
- Online application for seating
- Scaled floor plan of the installation site
- Photo or brochure of the seating - if available
- Photo of the complete house facade without seating
- Photo or plan of the house facade with a dimensioned elevation drawing of the planned seating facility
Legal basis
- Bavarian Road and Paths Act
- Special use guidelines
- Special utilisation fee statutes