The Everything Guide to Starting and Running a Catering Business


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Do you enjoy cooking for others? Is your buffet table a work of art? Are your parties the best in the neighborhood? Then catering may be a great career for you! It's all here-from getting licenses and choosing the perfect name to developing menus and getting the word out. Seasoned food expert and caterer Joyce Weinberg covers all aspects of the catering business and shares her secrets to success with you, including how to: Choose a specialty-fancy fundraisers, company and family picnics, or romantic weddings; Learn the ropes before you start your business; Create a marketing plan that gets your company noticed by all the right people; Find clients and generate repeat customers. The Everything Guide to Starting and Running a Catering Business is all you need to make your passion your profession!




How to Start a Home-Based Catering Business, 6th


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Those passionate about parties or cooking can now realize their dream of working from home at something they enjoy. Denise Vivaldo shares her experiences and advice on all the essentials and more, including estimating start-up costs and pricing services, finding clients, outfitting one’s kitchen, and honing food presentation skills.




The Everything Guide To Starting And Running A Restaurant


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A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader.




The Everything Guide to Starting and Running a Restaurant


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It takes a lot more than top-notch cooking skills to launch and run a successful eatery. But if you're a hopeful chef or hungry entrepreneur looking to open the next hot spot, you'll find everything you need in this accessible guide! Written by veteran restaurant owner and manager Ronald Lee, this guide offers solid advice on how to: Secure financing and find the perfect site Develop an engaging marketing plan to build and keep a patron base Operate an offbeat site like a food truck or rotating restaurant Create an innovative and diverse menu Hire and manage wait, kitchen, and front-end staff And much, much more! Complete with the latest thinking on industry trends and how to make a realistic and achievable business plan, this practical resource will turn you into a restaurateur before you can say "Bon appetit!"




Idiot's Guide: Starting a Food Truck Business


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- Everything readers need to know to start up and operate a wildly popular mobile food business - Includes crucial marketing expertise from a successful food truck entrepreneur




Restaurant Business Start-up Guide


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Master the essentials needed to start a restaurant. Features proffesional advice, sample business plan, revenue forecasting, organization tips, financial advice, location selection, leasing tips, negotiation tips, business checklist, and more!




How To Start a Home-based Food Truck Business


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From designing your food truck and identifying your market to establishing a business plan and determining the operational concerns of a mobile business, this comprehensive guide provides down-to-earth advice on every aspect of setting up and running a food truck business. Learn all about overcoming the hurdles facing the mobile food vendor, the legal aspects of food safety, menu planning, setting up your home-based headquarters, and navigating the catering industry. Whatever your plans, each chapter can help you experience the satisfaction of establishing and building your own home-based food truck business and reaching opening day! Look for useful charts and worksheets throughout the book, including: Preferred Vendor Checklist Start-Up Cost Worksheets Sample Operational Weekly Schedule 7878Outfitting your mobile kitchenAttracting customersNavigating operations concernsUnderstanding legal aspects and food safetyBuilding your menu




Restaurant Start-Up Guide


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A 12 month plan for successfully starting a restaurant. The all new edition of The Restaurant Start Up Guide focuses on what to do and when to do it advice for preparing to open a restaurant. This preliminary planner is an indispensable resource for anyone who is thinking of opening a restaurant. Complete with resources, timelines, sample financials, facilities checklists, and more, the would be restaurateur can be up and running in 12 months.




Career Diary of a Caterer


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This series examines a wide array of professions; each book goes behind the scenes and on the job with a professional in a particular field. These books provide a glimpse of some of the projects, challenges, and rewards of a job on a day-to-day basis."" Humor and true stories abound in this lively glimpse into the real world of catering. Each day presents a new challenges in this diary, and routine tasks are frequently interrupted by major snafus, irate customers, and last minute orders. Trained cooks who fantasize about owning a food service will quickly see that thinking on their feet and remaining confident of their skills will be important keys to success in this business.




Starting a Part-Time Food Business


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Each chapter takes the reader step-by-step through everything needed to get a small food business up and running including: business plans; obtaining licenses and registering the business; understanding costs and pricing; marketing and branding; and developing business tools to track finances.