Like Food? Here's How To Turn A Profit With It

By Wendy Maines


Are you thinking of launching a food company - making and selling homemade food out of your house?

There is a growing trend towards natural, pesticide-free and healthy edible products, so it's not a surprise that specialty food items are becoming more profitable. Food products are widely given as presents, they can also provide a solution to particular nutritional limitations.



If you enjoy preparing meals and are creative, you can be in your element in this type of business while giving your clients what they need. Here are a couple of businesses you can start:

Start a Catering Company

Catering can be a great part-time or full time business. You can do business with a range of different clients, from small gatherings to big business events. You can focus on imaginative laid-back outdoor entertainment or elegant elaborate functions. Develop your very own unique type of catering and meal preparation, and you can more easily draw in a faithful following of clients and client referrals.

Open a Cupcake Bakery

Do you enjoy cooking - with a flair for small desserts? There are several choices you have when launching a cupcake business. Gourmet cupcake stores are opening up in every well-known city and are rapidly becoming a popular treat.

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

Additionally, there is a growing market for gluten-free items, natural baked products and healthier desserts. With a cupcake service, you can begin small, from your kitchen or other cooking establishment. You can make deliveries to customers or sell to retail stores or markets. As your business expands, and if you choose, you can open a cupcake shop and sell your cupcakes direct to clients.

Bake and Sell Cookies

Do you want to start a part-time bakery that involves food - where you can work at home? The cookie baking field is a great business for this. Even though this is a competitive market, you can serve only your local market and do rather well.

You do not require many supplies, equipment, ingredients or room to start - as compared to various other food ventures. You can begin with small orders and grow gradually as customers find out about your cookies.

Instead of baking the standard chocolate chip cookies, search for niche markets where there is minimal or no competition. Some examples include gluten free cookies, organic cookies, vegan cookies, one-of-a-kind tastes, forms or sizes, etc. By being unique, it all of a sudden becomes much easier to gain people's attention and get them to buy your items.

Become a Food Writer

Food critics offer a valuable service to restaurant owners and eaters alike, but their commentary can also be amusing to read. This unique field may easily go un-noticed, but food critics can have a huge impact on the success of a dining establishment, and even the audience of a magazine or newspaper.

If you are good at offering useful feedback and have an interesting writing style, you can go far as a food writer, and you'll get to enjoy a great deal of interesting food too.

Open a Bakery

If you would like to work for yourself and enjoy baking, a bakery can be a creative and rewarding business that lets you do what you love: developing desserts and baking scrumptious treats.

Additionally, you can open a pet bakery, or concentrate on baking and selling cookies, focus on healthy low fat desserts, uniquely-shaped cakes, open a bakery/bookstore or any of a number of other specialty bakery niches.

Bakeries can flourish on word-of-mouth advertising, recommendations and repeat clients. However, they first require those first initial customers to get that word-of-mouth business. Since a bakery costs money to operate from the first day (and before), it is very important to bring in customers as quickly as possible to create revenue.




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