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Do I need a special licence for a delivery-only kitchen?

You still need a proper food-business licence and the standard food-safety approvals — a cloud kitchen is not a way around regulation. The trade licence goes through the Department of Economy and Tourism (mainland) or the relevant free-zone authority. Dubai Municipality assesses the kitchen layout before it is built (service 2976) and issues the permit for the food activity (service 2975), and the Food Code requires a trained Person in Charge. Inside a shared facility, ask in writing which approvals the facility holds and which you must hold yourself. Requirements change, so confirm the current ones with each authority for your setup.

From Cloud Kitchen Setup in Dubai: Costs, Licensing and the Real Economics — the full reading, with the method behind this answer.

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