If you operate a restaurant establishment, you are subject to mandatory billing measures. If you operate a restaurant, a business that provides catering services or a bar, you must comply with the measures.

You may be considered the operator of a restaurant establishment in the following situations:

• You operate a place laid out to ordinarily provide, for consideration, meals for consumption on the premises, including beverages sold alone (for example, a restaurant, bar or reception hall).
• You obtain a reunion permit (issued under the Act respecting liquor permits) authorizing the sale of alcoholic beverages during an event.
• You operate a tourist accommodation establishment, such as an inn or a bed and breakfast, and you offer restaurant or bar services. 
• You operate a restaurant establishment covered by an alcohol permit and you organize an event that will take place at a location not covered by your alcohol permit.
• You operate a place where meals for consumption elsewhere than on the premises are provided for consideration, or you operate a business that offers catering services.

If you operate a bar, you have additional obligations. For more information, click Additional Obligations of Bar Operators.

The mandatory billing measures also apply to any person that, in an operator's bar, at its entrance or near the establishment, ordinarily sells, under a contract entered into with the operator of the establishment or with a person related to the operator, property or services intended primarily for clients of the bar. For more information, click Obligations of Persons That Make Supplies in Bars.