If you are located in Houston, Texas, and you are looking to get your Food Manager Certification, you will need to follow a few simple steps.
- Optional: Take the Food Manager Training.
- The course is not required. However, it is available for purchase and can help you review critical information about managing a foodservice establishment.
- The course is not required. However, it is available for purchase and can help you review critical information about managing a foodservice establishment.
- Schedule, take, and pass Trust20’s Food Protection Manager Certification exam and obtain your credentials.
- Once you have successfully obtained your CFPM credentials from Trust20, fill in the Houston application for Replacement or Reciprocal Food Service Manager’s Certificate.
- Download the application.
- Check the box indicating that the application is for a reciprocal certificate from another agency or program or a replacement certificate for a lost or damaged existing City of Houston certificate.
- Attach a copy of a valid government-issued photo ID and a copy of your certificate from Trust20.
- Enter the date as “MM/DD/YYYY.”
- Enter your name as it appears on your present certificate and photo ID.
- If your name does not match these two documents, enter your name as you want it to appear on your replacement or reciprocal certificate, attach an explanation on a separate page, and submit it with your application.
- Enter your phone number.
- Enter your Driver’s License number or State ID number.
- Enter your date of birth as MM/DD/YYYY.
- Check the appropriate box for gender.
- Enter your home address.
- Check the “Preferred” box if you want your certificate postal mailed to your home address.
- Enter the business name of your work location.
- Enter the address of your work location.
- Check the “Preferred” box if you want your certificate postal mailed to your business address.
- Enter your email address (if any).
- Sign the application.
- Submit the application:
- by email (preferred) to FSMC@houstontx.gov, or
- by postal mail to the PO Box at the bottom of the application.
Applications are processed within three business days of receipt. If the application is correct, it will be approved, and reciprocal certificates will be postal mailed to your preferred mail address.
For replacement certificates, an invoice for $31.32 for the replacement certificate, along with payment options, will be emailed to the email address you provided on the application or postal mailed to your preferred mail address.
Recertification is required every five years.