Street Food Success


Book Description

There are so many views on street food with regard to its future. Some fear that soon street food will be replaced by other types of eateries. They want to preserve street food, like old buildings, as something quaint for the tourists. Others want street food to become Modern Singapore Cuisine with great tastes based on great ingredients. Others want street food to be affordable enough for the elderly poor, living on welfare. Still others want street food to represent the heritage of the country, like the museums, nice to have but seldom visited. Whatever the reason, You have for keeping street food, the objectives of this book is to get you started on street food as one of the most interesting ways to start and to stay in a business that is viable.




Chef Roy Choi and the Street Food Remix


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Describes the L.A. street cook's life, including working in his family's restaurant as a child, figuring out what he wanted to do with his life, and his success with his food truck and restaurant.




Good Food, Great Business


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For those ready to follow their foodie dreams (or at least start thinking about it), this book provides the tools to decide if creating a specialty food business is right for you. Whether the goal is selling a single product online or developing a range of gourmet foods for grocery chains, this handbook helps hopeful food entrepreneurs become experts in everything from concept and production to sales and marketing. The author uses real-life examples from more than 75 successful individuals and businesses to illustrate the good, the bad, and the ugly of starting a food enterprise, providing links to useful charts and worksheets to simplify the process and keep entrepreneurs organized and focused.




Delicious Freedom


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So you want to set up a food business? You want to be your own boss, show off your skills and have an adventure? Street food is the best place to start. It is delicious and fun, well-paid and life-affirming, offering pure freedom and a chance to develop a real obsession with the weather forecast. It can also be hand-to-mouth, heartbreaking, soul-destroying and heavy manual labour - but more on that later. Delicious Freedom is a guide for anyone thinking about setting up their own street food business, for those who don't have the time or inclination to read a dull tome on business strategy. It is the book Miranda Roberts wishes had existed seven years ago when she started her street food adventure, and one which many people are searching for. It provides tangible advice from what you will sell to where will you do it and to whom. Throughout the book you will find stories from those who have tried and succeeded as well as those who have tried and failed, what they've all learnt and why they did it. This accessible book encompasses all the highs and lows of running your own business, and provides an insight into one of the most exciting sectors of the hospitality industry.




Innovative Business Development—A Global Perspective


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This proceedings volume presents the latest trends in innovative business development theory and practice from a global, interdisciplinary perspective. Featuring selected contributions from the 25th International Economic Conference Sibiu (IECS 2018) held in Sibiu, Romania, it explores various topics in the areas of economics, business, finance and accounting, including tourism, marketing and Islamic banking and finance. Written by researchers from different regions and sectors around the world, it offers significant insights into the emerging shifts that characterize the fields of innovative economics and global development, innovative business practices, as well as innovative finance and banking, and provides organizations, managers and policy makers with new reliable solutions and opportunities for innovative development and growth within and between organizations around the globe.




Street Food


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Prepared foods, for sale in streets, squares or markets, are ubiquitous around the world and throughout history. This volume is one of the first to provide a comprehensive social science perspective on street food, illustrating its immense cultural diversity and economic significance, both in developing and developed countries. Key issues addressed include: policy, regulation and governance of street food and vendors; production and trade patterns ranging from informal subsistence to modern forms of enterprise; the key role played by female vendors; historical roots and cultural meanings of selling and eating food in the street; food safety and nutrition issues. Many chapters provide case studies from specific cities in different regions of the world. These include North America (Atlanta, Philadelphia, Portland, Toronto, Vancouver), Central and South America (Bogota, Buenos Aires, La Paz, Lima, Mexico City, Montevideo, Santiago, Salvador da Bahia), Asia (Bangkok, Dhaka, Penang), Africa (Accra, Abidjan, Bamako, Freetown, Mozambique) and Europe (Amsterdam).




Mission Street Food


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Presents a collection of recipes from the popular restaurant, along with a history of how it was set up, anecdotes about the chefs and staff, and illustrations of the techniques used to prepare certain dishes.




Running a Food Truck For Dummies


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Drive your food truck business to success While food trucks may not be the new kid on the block anymore, it's a segment that continues to swell—and there's still plenty of room for growth. If you have your sights set on taking your culinary prowess on the road, Running a Food Truck For Dummies, 2nd Edition helps you find your food niche, follow important rules of conducting business, outfit your moving kitchen, meet safety and sanitation requirements, and so much more. Gone are the days of food trucks offering unappealing prepackaged meals, snacks, and coffee. In today's flourishing food service industry, they're more like restaurants on wheels, offering eager curbside patrons everything from gourmet tacos and Korean BBQ to gluten-free pastries and healthy vegan fare. Whether you're the owner or operator of an existing food truck business looking to up the ante or a chef, foodie, or gourmand interested in starting your own mobile restaurant endeavor, Running a Food Truck For Dummies has you covered. Create a food truck business plan to set yourself up for success Stay profitable by avoiding the most common operating mistakes Harness public relations and social media to build your following Grow from one truck to multiple trucks, restaurants, or a food truck franchise Packed with the latest information on legislation and ordinances, securing loans, and marketing to the all-important Millennials, this one-stop guide helps you cook up a well-done food truck venture in no time!




Street Food Revolution


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By travelling across the UK and Ireland in a campervan, Richard Johnson tells the remarkable stories of 12 budding entrepreneurs who have chosen wheels over bricks-and-mortar to peddle their wares, from the porridge bar outside Edinburgh Castle to the coffee cart on the north coast of Ireland to the Ethiopian food stall in London.




The World Atlas of Street Food


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Street food is one of the most amazing culinary success stories of the twenty-first century, defying globalization and the spread of multinational fast-food franchises. Fresh, cheap, plentiful, and varied, street food offers urban residents a cornucopia of choices. Food that was once obtainable only on Saharan roadsides is now available in New York City, and Patagonian village recipes can be picked up in downtown Hong Kong. Millions of people all over the world eat street food every day, and their numbers are rising rapidly. The World Atlas of Street Foodidentifies the best places around the globe to find street food and surveys the mouth-watering range of food and drink being purveyed. Organized geographically and sumptuously illustrated, the book covers North America, the Caribbean, South America, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and Australasia. For several major cities in each region, Carol Wilson and Sue Quinn describe what the locals eat in the best and most established food markets. The authors suggest which trademark delicacies to try and selected recipes are featured to enable readers to re-create the stand-out dishes at home. The most complete guide of its kind, The World Atlas of Street Food belongs on the shelf of everyone who craves an imaginative, original alternative to homogeneous fare.