Start & Run a Home-Based Food Business
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Whether you have always dreamed of owning a home-based food business, need a second source of income, or want to stay home and be your own boss, this book offers tons of tips, examples, and advice for you to run a profitable business in your own kitchen!
ISBN: 9781551808338
Number of pages: 176
Product Description for Start & Run a Home-Based Food Business:
- Turn your kitchen into a business
- Create professional recipes and products
- Find success with your own unique speciality!
Are you one of the many people who dream of making a profit selling your own homemade foods? Now, with this one-of-a-kind, easy-to-follow-guide, you can realize your home-based food business dreams!
With over 25 years' experience, author Mimi Shotland Fix takes you through each step to starting and running a food business. Topics covered include:
- Developing, pricing, and packaging your product
- Advertising, marketing, and finding customers
- Setting up simple bookkeeping, scheduling, and inventory systems
- Finding low cost ways of turning your kitchen into a health-department approved production space.
The (Windows only) CD-ROM includes:
- Tried-and-true recipes
- Sample contracts, invoice, and accounting forms
- Lists of books, websites, and trade publications
- National and regional suppliers
- — And more!
Product Specification for Start & Run a Home-Based Food Business:
| Author | Mimi Shotland Fix |
| Author Detail | Mimi Shotland Fix started a home kitchen business in 1979, and has since owned and operated two successful bakeries, worked as a head pastry chef for multiple restaurants, and developed products for corporate food companies. She currently teaches continuing education classes on food and nutrition at SUNY and Cornell, and owns a culinary business consulting firm in Kingston, NY. |
| Edition | First Edition |
| Pages | 176 |
| Size | 8¼ x 9¾ |
| ISBN | 9781551808338 |
| UPC | 069635808337 |
| About the CD | The CD works with all versions of Microsoft Windows: 95, 98, ME, NT4, 2000, XP, and Vista (Vista and Windows 7 installation requires you to have Administrator rights on your computer). |
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News and Reviews
“The book, written in a clear and engaging style, touches upon the coarse and fine points of food-making as a cottage industry, from how to figure out what to make, to drawing up a business plan, to making the food, and finally to find people to buy it.” — “The kitchen as savior” article in the Woodstock Times discusses Start & Run a Home-Based Food Business.
“I need to work out my budget and cost per item ASAP so I can get going and make some [income]. Thanks for your great book, Mimi, it was just the inspiration I needed.”
-- Daniella, California, USA
“I need to work out my budget and cost per item ASAP so I can get going and make some [income]. Thanks for your great book, Mimi, it was just the inspiration I needed.”
-- Daniella, California, USA