Methodology
Every number on this site traces to a source we name, on a date we print. Here is the discipline behind the datasets.
State statutes, state agency pages (health departments, ABC boards, tax authorities) and county environmental-health programs outrank everything. Where a rule is genuinely set at county level — most food-permit fees are — the dataset stores the framework and the issuing office, and the checkers say "set by your county" rather than printing a number we do not hold.
A few things have no official source — quota liquor license prices are set by private negotiation. Where we publish a market range, it is labeled secondary, given as a wide range, and dated. Where no reliable range exists, we print that instead.
This dataset generation was checked October 23, 2026. Home-food laws change several times a year (five to eight material changes annually, plus California's January cap adjustment and new MEHKO county opt-ins); liquor law overhauls arrive state by state. Pages carry their source lines so you can verify any row against the office itself in one click from your state page.
Tell us at help@doogex.com with the page and the source — corrections to the datasets ship in the next update, and the page date moves with them.