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Insurance for Pizzerias

How to Insure Your Pizza Restaurant

Before you sell your next pizza, ask yourself if you have enough insurance to protect your pizzeria against lawsuits, slips and falls, and fire.

You don’t want to be a slice away from a financial disaster without any or enough business insurance for your pizza place.

What is pizzeria insurance?

Insurance for a pizza restaurant is a customized policy that protects you as the owner against specific risks associated with serving food and drinks, including third-party bodily injuries and property damages involving customer or clients, accidents, and equipment breakdowns.

What risks can pizzerias face?

Risks that pizza restaurants include:

  • Food safety hazards such as improper handling and storage
  • Food poisoning
  • Slips and falls in your pizza place
  • Your oven breaks down
  • Vandalism
  • Fire
  • Sewer backup
  • Overland flooding

Business liability insurance should be a key part of your commercial insurance for your pizzeria. Here’s what you need:

Commercial general liability (CGL) insurance

This is necessary liability insurance for pizza restaurants. Without commercial general liability insurance, you will pay costs related to third-party (customer/supplier) injuries or damage to their property out of your own pocket.

For example, if a customer were to sue you after slipping on a wet floor at your pizza parlour, commercial general liability insurance would cover the legal costs to defend the claim as well as the costs to compensate third parties whether you win or lose your case.

What kind of risks does commercial general liability insurance cover?

  • Injury to a third party who is not your employee
  • Damage to someone’s property
  • Damage to rented property
  • Medical bills if someone is injured
  • Legal costs and settlement costs of liability lawsuits filed against you
  • Liability lawsuits related to slander and libel

How much CGL insurance do I need for my pizza restaurant?

It’s not uncommon that a pizza restaurant would carry $2 million in CGL coverage, but that depends on its size. It could be more and it could be less.

The number of employees and claims history will also be factors in how much liability insurance you need.

Cyber liability insurance

Do you accept credit and debit cards? Your pizzeria could be hacked by cyberthieves. Cyber liability insurance will help protect you financially should your pizza place experience a cyber-attack.

Depending on the size of the data breach and the information that was taken, the customers who are affected can hold you liable and sue you for damages. Cyber liability insurance helps cover the costs for this.

Product liability insurance

If a customer gets sick after eating your pizza, product liability insurance can help cover the cost of the customer’s medical expenses and your legal and court-related costs to defend yourself.

For example, a customer claims that a pizza your restaurant sold her gave her a serious case of food poisoning and a trip to the hospital, causing her to miss work for an extended period. The customer successfully sues you for bodily injury. Your product liability insurance would help cover the legal expenses and costs to recall the product.

Liquor liability

For pizza restaurants that serve alcohol, liquor liability coverage, Juno program protects your establishment from losses, damages, or other expenses arising from the injury or death caused by an intoxicated customer.

The costs to defend or settle a lawsuit can add up quickly. Make sure that your pizzeria has adequate business liability insurance in case you are sued.

What other insurance coverages do pizza restaurants need?

Commercial property insurance

Commercial property insurance provides financial support to replace or cover repairs to your pizzeria if it’s damaged by a flood, fire, or severe weather. It also covers vandalism and theft.

Commercial property insurance also covers contents such as computers, furniture, tools, equipment, and inventory. Commercial property coverage also extends to protect others’ property that is under your care.

Business interruption insurance

This type of insurance helps support you financially when your pizza parlour can’t operate due to a covered loss.

There are a number of losses that could force your restaurant to shut down. Some examples are:

  • Damage to your equipment from fire or vandalism
  • A major reduction in revenue due to a supplier facing losses of their own
  • A disruption in your supply chain

Business interruption insurance can help with these expenses:

  • Payroll
  • Rent
  • Utilities
  • Property taxes
  • Alarm monitoring
  • Relocation of your business

Equipment breakdown insurance

Your pizza restaurant likely has expensive equipment to keep your products either frozen or refrigerated, and to bake your pizzas.

Equipment breakdown insurance provides coverage for property damage from the sudden and accidental breakdown of insured equipment not automatically covered by a standard commercial property policy.

You’ll need to have a list of your equipment and how much it’s worth.

Crime insurance

It should be part of your pizza restaurant insurance package.

Crime insurance can protect you against theft, credit card fraud, forgery, counterfeit, and other types of fraud that employees sometimes commit.

Commercial auto insurance

If you have a business car, van, or truck that you use for business, it won’t be covered by your personal car insurance policy. You will need commercial coverage as part of your insurance package.

What if my pizzeria gets food delivered via a third-party app and I get sued?

As the business owner, the liability falls back on you for any products sold through any platform. Read through the agreement you have with the third-party delivery provider to see if there could be any terms and agreements that remove your liability once your pizza restaurant’s food enters the delivery car.

Sewer backup insurance and overland flood insurance

Heavy rainfall, melting snow, and storms can overwhelm drainage systems, leading to sewer backups and overland flooding. Businesses located in flood-prone areas or areas with aging infrastructure are at risk, and the risk is likely to increase over time.

Consider sewer backup insurance and overland flood insurance for your pizzeria.

Did you know? In Canada, most standard commercial property insurance policies do not automatically cover sewer backup and overland flooding. Coverage is often offered as an optional add-on to your main business insurance policy. Are you sure your pizza business is covered for these events?

Final thoughts

Your pizza restaurant is your livelihood. Protect it with enough business insurance to keep your doors open and your customers coming back should you face a lawsuit, fire, vandalism, or flooding.

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