Colorado food plan / meat processor bonds.
From $100.
A food-plan organizer or meat processor takes customers’ money up front for food delivered later. Colorado repealed statewide home-food-plan licensure in 2018, so a bond backing those prepayments is now generally a legacy or contractual requirement. Whatever amount you’ve been asked for, pricing starts from $100.
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How much does a Colorado food plan / meat processor bond cost?
0.5% of the bond amount, from $100. Enter your amount in the calculator for the exact price.
Three steps. One sitting.
No underwriting queue for the standard food-plan bond — enter your amount, pay, and you have the executed bond. Here is the whole thing:
Apply online
Your business details, the bond amount you were asked for, and the effective date — that is the application.
Issued on the spot
No credit check up to $500,000. Above that, the carrier may run a soft pull, which never affects your score.
Deliver to whoever required it
Submit the executed bond to your contract counterparty or local jurisdiction. Wet-ink originals mailed on request.
What it is and who needs it.
What this bond actually covers — and what changed
A “food plan” is an arrangement where a customer prepays for food (often meat, in bulk or freezer plans) delivered over time. Because the customer pays ahead of delivery, Colorado historically required a food-plan organizer (and bonded meat processors handling these plans) to post a consumer-protection bond — so customers could recover if the food was never delivered.
Important and honest: Colorado repealed its statewide home-food-service / food-plan regulatory program in 2018. House Bill 18-1183 eliminated the regulation of home food service plans (repealing Article 35.5 of Title 35 effective July 1, 2018) after a DORA sunset review found the program obsolete — the number of licensees had fallen below ten. So this is no longer a standing statewide license bond.
If you’re asked for one today, it’s typically a contractual or local requirement — or you’re carrying it voluntarily to reassure prepaying customers. There’s no current statutory amount, so enter the figure you were asked for; pricing starts from $100 and no credit check up to $500,000. Meat processing itself remains regulated (custom processing under Title 35, Article 33), but that program does not impose this prepaid-customer bond.
You need this bond if you are
Claims, renewal, filing, and what sets the price.
If a claim is made
A claim comes from the party the bond protects, the obligee named on the form, when the duty the bond guarantees is not met.
The surety investigates and pays a valid claim, up to the bond amount. You then repay the surety: a surety bond is a guarantee of your performance, not insurance for you.
Renewal and term
The premium covers a one-year term from the effective date you choose.
Renew before the expiry date to keep the bond in force: the license, permit or contract it backs expects continuous coverage.
How to file it
Deliver to whoever required it. Submit the executed bond to your contract counterparty or local jurisdiction. Wet-ink originals mailed on request.
What sets the price
The premium is 0.5% of the bond amount, $100 minimum: the amount the obligee sets moves the price, not your business profile.
No credit check up to $500,000. Above that, the carrier may run a soft pull, which never affects your score.
Where a check runs, it decides approval; the rate is the same for everyone approved.
One application, issued on the spot.
Submit the application with the bond amount you were asked for — the executed bond is generated instantly, ready to deliver.
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Food plan bond, issued today.
Pricing from $100. Enter the amount you were asked for and deliver it the same day.