RECIPE FOR SUCCESS INGREDIENT CARDS
Ingredient 4: Ideas
Question:
What are some home cooking ideas?
Answer:
There are many advantages to home cooking: it reduces costs; it enables easy involvement with the family; it provides part-time work.
Some of the ways to start cooking for money are baking for market stalls, confectionery, celebration cake service, bar and hotel food, lunch boxes and picnics, making preserves for sale, cooking for dinner parties, and running a freezer service. We’ll have a look at some of these below.
Baking for market stalls
You can sell your products to someone already established with a market stall and when you have gained some experience start-up your own market stall.
Cakes for every occasion
There are many, many occasions which can be celebrated with a special cake, and the scope for the cake decorator is enormous. There are birthdays, anniversaries, weddings, christenings, Easter, and Christmas, to state the obvious ones.
Lunch boxes and picnics
Depending upon the area in which you live, a lunch box and picnic service could be built into a profitable business. If you do not want to do too much work at first, this sort of service will be a good way to start catering as you do not need to invest much money in new equipment or in packaging.
Make preserves for sale
Homemade preserves are always popular and many good cooks are maximising their skills in this area. For more information why not email alacaretetraining@me.com and request a FREE copy of ‘Make Preserves for Sale’.
Cooking for dinner parties
You can start cooking for dinner parties straight away. You do not necessarily need to invest much money and provided that you are confident in your cooking ability you can just put a card in the local shops’ window or notice board in a shopping center.
Running a freezer service
Freezer cooking is becoming something of a growth industry. The idea is simply to fill up someone’s deep freeze with a wide variety of homemade dishes (perhaps a month’s supply of things like cakes, puddings, pies, flans, casseroles, and soups) thus relieving the customer of the double chore of shopping and cooking/baking.
Sometimes the customers are busy professional people who have neither the time nor the inclination to cook for themselves but don’t want to exist on shop-bought convenience foods.
Sometimes they are people who do a lot of entertaining and prefer to pay for the privilege of being able to remove gourmet dishes out of their own deep freezer rather than attempt to do the cooking themselves or employ a caterer.
Very often they are old or incapacitated people, who simply are not able to do their own cooking, and sometimes their family or friends organise the filling of their freezer to give them a modicum of independence.
Home Cooking Ideas
You are (or will be) investing a lot of time and money into your new food venture, so for your business success, it is vital for you to gain as much hospitality and business management knowledge as you can.
For a very low investment, why not download a copy of:
‘How to Cook for Cash – Ideas’ eBook.
Your food venture starts now!
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RECIPE FOR SUCCESS
4 Ingredients:
Business – keep within the law
Marketing – increase sales, make more profit
Operations – controls to save time and money
Ideas – keep your customers coming back
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