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17 August 2013

Ways To Open A Food Business From Home

By Nancy Grasham


Are you thinking of launching a food-related company - preparing and selling homemade food products from your home?

There is an increasing trend towards natural, pesticide-free and healthy food products, so it's no surprise that gourmet food items are becoming more successful. Food products are extensively distributed as presents, they can also offer a solution to specific dietary constraints.



If you like putting together meals and are creative, you can truly enjoy this business while providing solutions for your customers. Below are a couple of businesses you may want to consider:

Become a Caterer

Catering can be a wonderful part-time or full time business. You can deal with a variety of different clients, from small gatherings to large corporate events. You can focus on creative casual outdoor entertainment or elegant sophisticated functions. Establish your own special type of catering and meal preparation, and it will be easier to draw in a faithful following of customers and client referrals.

Cupcake Business

Do you like baking - with a knack for cupcakes? There are a lot of options you have when opening a cupcake-making service. Gourmet cupcake shops are opening up in every major city and are quickly becoming a regular treat.

But what about baby shower cupcakes, wedding cupcakes, kids's birthday cupcakes and cupcake bouquets? You're right - virtually any event that would have a cake or cookies would definitely like cupcakes too.

There is also an expanding market for gluten-free items, organic baked items and healthier desserts. With a cupcake business, you can begin small, from your own kitchen or other baking establishment. You can make deliveries to customers or sell to retailers or markets. As your business expands, and if you decide to, you can open a cupcake shop and offer your cupcakes direct to customers.

Start a Cookie Business

Would you like to begin a part time business that involves food - where you can work out of your home? The cookie baking field is a great opportunity for this. Even though this is a competitive market, you can serve only your community market and do quite well.

You don't need lots of materials, equipment, cooking ingredients or room to begin - as compared with various other food ventures. You can begin with small orders and expand over time as customers learn about your cookies.

Instead of baking the conventional chocolate chip cookies, try to find niche markets where there is little or no competitors. Some examples include gluten free cookies, natural cookies, vegan cookies, one-of-a-kind flavors, forms or sizes, etc. By being unique, it all of a sudden becomes much easier to get people's attention and get them to purchase your items.

Make Money Writing About Food

Food critics provide an useful service to restaurant owners and eaters alike, but their comments can also be entertaining to read. This unique field may easily go un-noticed, however, food writers can have a huge impact on the profits of a restaurant, and even the readership of a magazine or paper.

If you are good at providing useful feedback and have an interesting writing style, you can excel as a food writer, and you'll be able to enjoy a lot of interesting food too.

Start a Bakery

If you want to work for yourself and like cooking, a bakery can be a creative and gratifying line of work that lets you do exactly what you like: developing desserts and cooking delicious treats.

Additionally, you can start a pet bakery, or specialize in baking and selling cookies, concentrate on healthy low fat treats, uniquely-shaped cakes, open a bakery/bookstore or any of a number of other specialized bakery niches.

Bakeries can grow on word-of-mouth advertising, referrals and repeat clients. Nevertheless, they initially require those first preliminary buyers to get that word-of-mouth business. Considering that a bakery costs money to operate from day one (and before), it is very important to generate clients as fast as possible to produce profits.




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