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Three questions to ask about your coverage

1. What could go wrong? For full-service restaurants, it’s often slips on freshly mopped floors, hot plates and spilled drinks at the table, burns, and allergen or foodborne illness complaints. Guests sit, eat and move around your dining room for an hour or more, so injury claims are the everyday exposure.

2. Do I need GL or a BOP? General liability handles third-party bodily injury, property damage and (for most classes) personal and advertising injury, with per-occurrence limits of $300K, $500K, $1M or $2M. A BOP adds property and business income protection. A BOP adds your kitchen equipment, furniture and inventory plus business income, and the restaurant endorsement can respond to spoilage and food contamination.

3. Will my business qualify? Coterie’s appetite excludes bars, taverns and nightclubs, dance floors, DJs or live entertainment, door staff, BYOB service, hookah bars and places where liquor tops 50% of sales. Hired and non-owned auto isn’t available if staff deliver in their own cars. Coterie generally accepts businesses with up to $10M in revenue and 50 employees, one location per policy, limited losses in the past five years and no prior cancellations. Startups and home-based businesses can qualify too.

Where this class ranks with Coterie

Full Service Restaurants is #1 on Coterie’s Top 100 classes list (December 2025), so it’s one of the business types Coterie writes most often.

What comes with a Coterie policy

You can get an instant quote, bind online and get certificates right away. Policyholders also have free access to Manage My Risk, which includes risk assessments, safety guides and compliance checklists you can use with your team.

Coverage is subject to underwriting and availability.

Get a quote

Start your Coterie quote online, or call America Insurance Brokers to talk through your options for Alabama full service restaurants.