ANSI-accredited food handler certification, responsible alcohol service, state-specific sexual harassment prevention, and OSHA workplace safety — every required course for every role in your restaurant or hotel, at $5/user/month.
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Compliance Requirements
Hospitality runs on shift workers, seasonal hires, and tight margins — and inspectors don’t care about any of that. Every employee who touches food, alcohol, or a guest needs training that matches their role. Here’s what applies.
Food handler certification required for line staff, food manager certification for supervisors. ANSI-CFP accreditation accepted in 30+ states. Allergen training mandatory in IL, MA, MI, NY, RI, VA.
Health-code violations: closure orders + per-day fines
Required for bartenders and servers in 40+ states. Covers age verification, signs of intoxication, dram-shop liability, and the legal consequences of over-serving.
License revocation risk + dram-shop liability
Mandatory in California, New York, Illinois, Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, and growing. Hospitality has one of the highest harassment complaint rates of any industry — annual training is the baseline expectation.
Fines from $500 to $25,000 per violation depending on state
Slips, cuts, burns, and chemical exposure are the top injuries in hospitality. Fire safety, ergonomics, and bloodborne pathogens for housekeeping all required under OSHA general industry.
Up to $16,131 per serious violation
A single health-code violation can close a restaurant for the night and cost a full shift of revenue. Over-serving can put your liquor license at risk and trigger dram-shop liability. California DFEH harassment violations reach $150,000 in damages per employee — and that’s before the lawsuit costs.
Course Catalog
Short, mobile-friendly courses that new hires and seasonal staff can finish on a phone before their first shift. Every course includes a completion certificate.
| Course | Duration | Price | Certificate | Approval |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Food Handler Training CoursePopular | 2h | $10.00 | Yes | ANSI / state-specific |
| 8h | $65.00 | Yes | ANSI | |
| 25 min | $13.50 | Yes | FDA aligned | |
| 4h | $14.99 | Yes | State-specific (IL) | |
| 3h | $14.99 | Yes | State-specific (WI) | |
| 3h | $14.99 | Yes | State-specific (TN) | |
| 45 min | $9.95 | Yes | State-specific | |
| 16 min | $9.95 | Yes | SB 553 / best practice | |
| 17 min | $29.95 | Yes | OSHA 1910.1030 | |
| 1h | $40.00 | Yes | DOT/BWC aligned |
State-specific courses deployed automatically, new hires enrolled on day one, and compliance visibility from the property level up to the regional dashboard.
Food handler and responsible alcohol service courses are automatically matched to each employee’s work location. California, Texas, New York, and 40+ other states are covered out of the box.
Configure onboarding training once. Every new server, bartender, line cook, or housekeeper is auto-enrolled in the right courses for their role and state on day one.
Whether you run one restaurant or 200 hotels, see who’s certified and who’s overdue across every property from a single account. Group by brand, region, or location manager.
Short enough for hourly and seasonal staff to finish on a phone during onboarding or before a first shift. No one has to block out a half-day for compliance training.
Food handler certifications expire every 2–3 years depending on the state. Coggno tracks expiration dates per employee and sends reminders so no one falls out of compliance.
The most affordable ANSI-accredited food handler card available online. Accepted in California, Texas, Florida, Illinois, Washington, and every other state that requires certification.
Compliance Categories
The compliance categories that apply across restaurants, hotels, bars, caterers, and casinos.
Food handler, HACCP, alcohol service, allergen awareness
Learn moreHarassment prevention, workplace violence, DEI
Learn moreSlips, trips, falls, fire safety, kitchen safety
Learn morePCI data security, customer privacy, phishing prevention
Learn moreCommon questions about hospitality and food service compliance training with Coggno.
Yes in 30+ states. The Food Handler Certification is ANSI-CFP accredited, which is the standard accepted by jurisdictions including California, Texas, Illinois, Washington, Florida, and Arizona. Specific state acceptance varies — Coggno’s state-matching engine auto-assigns the right version per location.
The Responsible Alcohol Service course is built on TIPS-like principles and is accepted in 40+ states for on-premise and off-premise servers. Specific state mandates (Texas TABC, Utah, etc.) are matched automatically based on the employee’s work location.
It varies by state — most require renewal every 2 to 3 years. Coggno tracks the expiration date for every certified employee and sends renewal reminders so no one falls out of compliance.
Yes. There are no minimum seat commitments. Add seasonal staff as needed.
Yes. California requires supervisors and managers to complete 2 hours of harassment prevention training. Non-supervisory hospitality staff complete 1 hour. Coggno has both — assigned automatically by role.
Yes. Organize employees by property, brand, region, or role. Pull a compliance report at the property level, regional level, or company-wide — same dashboard, same login.
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