Licensed restaurants (SIC code 56101)
Restaurants licensed to serve alcohol file here. That means sit-down dining, pub-restaurants and hotel restaurants. No other hospitality code holds more companies. Cafes and lunch-only spots are 56102, takeaways are 56103, and licensed clubs are 56301.
46,759active UK companies list SIC 56101 among their codes on the public recordCompanies House · counts as of August 2026
SIC 56101 in numbers
46,759 companies is 0.90 per cent of the 5,190,464 active companies on the UK register. 56101 is the second most used of the 7 codes we track in division 56.
43,024 of the 46,759 put 56101 first, and only 3,735 carry it as a second, third or fourth code. The code on its own is a clean filter.
ACTIVE COMPANIES BY REGISTERED-OFFICE POST TOWN (WHERE THE PAPERWORK SITS, NOT NECESSARILY THE WORK) · COMPANIES HOUSE PUBLIC RECORD, AUGUST 2026
London is the largest cluster at 20 per cent and the top five post towns hold 28 per cent, so the other 72 per cent sit across the rest of the country. A regional filter narrows the list without gutting it.
A worked example: 56101, registered office in London, incorporated in the last ninety days, from a pool of 46,759. Each lead you get arrives with a working website and a real email, and the director's name when the record has one. If we cannot complete one, you pay nothing.
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Division 56 is about serving food and drink to eat now. It is the home of the UK hospitality trade.
Related SIC codes
How to read SIC 56101
SIC 56101 reads as division 56 (food and beverage service activities), group 561, class 5610, then the full five digits, inside section I, accommodation and food service. A company picks its own codes, up to four, and Companies House does not check them, so 56101 is the company's own description of what it does, and 43,024 list it first where 46,759 list it anywhere.
Who sells into division 56
Hospitality churns fast and buys supplies constantly. That makes it one of the most worked sectors on the public record.
About SIC 56101
When do new restaurants show up under SIC 56101?
A new company shows up on the Companies House register when it is incorporated, which is usually before the restaurant opens. That gap is a short window for suppliers to get in touch.
Is SIC 56101 used by both pubs and restaurants?
Yes. A pub with a real kitchen usually files 56101. A wet-only pub, drinks and no food, files 56302. A fair few pubs file both codes.
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