UT limited-service restaurant bonds.
$100 flat.
A Utah limited-service restaurant licensee posts a $5,000 bond payable to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Services — the penal sum is set by Utah Code 32B-6-304(4). Ours is $100 flat, and the price you see is the price at checkout. The application collects no credit information, and most applications approve instantly.
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Three steps. One sitting.
Retail licence bonds are about the simplest thing in surety. Here is the entire process:
Apply online
Entity type, business details, term and an effective date. That is the application — no financials, no credit section, no follow-up scavenger hunt.
Pay & e-sign
Licence bonds like this are among the thousands of bond types that issue right after purchase. At most, a business day or two.
File with DABS
Your executed bond and power of attorney arrive by email, ready to go into your retail licence application or your renewal packet. Wet-ink original mailed on request.
What it is and who needs it.
What the limited-service restaurant bond guarantees
A limited-service restaurant is the Utah licence class that lets a restaurant store, sell, offer for sale, furnish and allow consumption of wine, heavy beer and beer — but not spirituous liquor. That single distinction is why the licence exists, why its bond is smaller than a full-service restaurant's, and why the part is written around dining areas and dispensing areas kept apart by distance or a physical barrier.
The bond runs under Utah Code 32B-5-204, the general bond section for retail licensees. It is posted in the amount the relevant part specifies — here $5,000 — and it is payable to the department, in a form approved by the attorney general, conditioned on the licensee's faithful compliance with Title 32B and the rules of the commission. You keep it in place for as long as you operate under the licence.
It is not insurance for you. If the department claims and the surety pays, you repay the surety. Three consequences are worth knowing: a bond canceled through your negligence can draw a $300 reinstatement fee; no part of the bond may be withdrawn while the licence is in effect or a revocation is pending; and the department may claim against the bond for money you owe it without the commission first revoking the licence.
You need this bond if you are
One application, issued instantly.
These are the actual issuing fields — no credit section, because this application doesn't collect credit information.
Start the application →Common questions.
Other Utah bonds.
Get the DABS packet complete.
$100 flat, no credit section in the application, bond often issued in the same sitting. Free until issued.