General liability for restaurants

Published 2026-06-05 · Updated 2026-06-11 · by Brokly

Worth a look

Customer injuries on your premises — and harm caused by the food you serve.

What it covers for full-service restaurants

Protects the restaurant against claims of bodily injury or property damage to others: a guest who slips in the dining room, or a customer injured by food the restaurant served — the CGL's premises and products sections respond to the trade's slip-and-fall and foodborne-illness exposures. A dining room full of guests plus food as your product means injury exposure every shift.

Sources: Texas Department of Insurance — Commercial general liability insurance (retrieved 2026-06-06)

What it costs — benchmark in progress

The same treatment our workers’-comp benchmarks already get: real filed-rate and quote data for general liability, by state and business size, fully sourced and dated. As quote data accumulates, this page becomes the general liability benchmark for full-service restaurants — same URL, real numbers.

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