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| Thread ID: 69118 | 2006-05-22 15:16:00 | Opening a food business, where to start | Mr_Milkman (10437) | PC World Chat |
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| 456893 | 2006-05-22 15:16:00 | Hi all, I'm not sure where to go with this question, hopefully someone here will have some good advice for me! My fiance and I are wanting to open a food business in the waikato area, but we are unsure of how to go about this, like what we need to supply for the council and where to go for advice and such. Any advice would be great! Thanks heaps!:thumbs: |
Mr_Milkman (10437) | ||
| 456894 | 2006-05-22 19:00:00 | errrrrrrr...um......ask the council ? | drcspy (146) | ||
| 456895 | 2006-05-22 19:53:00 | The first step would be to approach the council, also survey how much foot traffic is passing by the proposed location. Think about equipment needed and cost this, check out supplers, write menus and cost these, work out labour, power, lease costs. Add this to your food costs build in a profit margin. Build a buseness plan The bank wll proberly want this as part of the loan process. I believe also That some councils require food service workers be quailified in food saftey (as employer I would expect this of my employees in the food industry) I would recommend that you do the advanced food saftey course. Both of these can be done through the TOPNZ |
beama (111) | ||
| 456896 | 2006-05-22 21:11:00 | One thing is that you need a commercial kitchen. I think it is illegal to cook food at home and sell it. | mejobloggs (264) | ||
| 456897 | 2006-05-23 00:17:00 | Hi all, I'm not sure where to go with this question, hopefully someone here will have some good advice for me! My fiance and I are wanting to open a food business in the waikato area, but we are unsure of how to go about this, like what we need to supply for the council and where to go for advice and such. Any advice would be great! Thanks heaps!:thumbs: My guess is that you have no experience in the food industry & to start one - you're gonna get really stuck. get a job in a takeaway or lunchbar first - then you can find all about the biz. My folks spent years with coffee lounges, they bought old ones, got it profitable & sold it etc. I went & did a cert. course when i was a kid & learnt to cook when i was still at high school. i could set one up, but hey i'd rather fix computers. good luck! |
quarry (252) | ||
| 456898 | 2006-05-23 01:49:00 | From the sound of your initial question I would assume you are completely inexperienced in the business world. Be very careful before putting your money into a new enterprise. The first and most important consideration is the location. How many potential customers are there in the area? Are there enough to make your enterprise profitable. And equaly important , how many other food businesses would you be competing with. I know of an aweful lot of cafes, restraunts and take aways that have gone broke in a very short time. Once you decide where you want to start up go to the local council and ask what their requirements are. Different councils have different rules. The health people will want to inspect the premises and they will issue you with a health certificate. And they will visit you regularly to check you are meeting their standards. If you need financing from your bank,be prepared for another rigourous inspection. Best of luck anyway. |
JJJJJ (528) | ||
| 456899 | 2006-05-23 01:52:00 | Yes, start with the Council. There are all sorts of health regulations but they are likely to want to encourage any new business so should be helpful. There are government funded free business advice places such as Business Mentor (http://www.businessmentor.org.nz/) which you should also contact. Any business needs to stand out from it's competitors so decide what it is that will attract customers. If you are thinking cafe/bar, be aware that many fail. It might seem odd but good food isn't always enough. Location is important, and excellent service is very important. One bad customer experience can undo 10 happy customers. |
Winston001 (3612) | ||
| 456900 | 2006-05-23 02:37:00 | All the stainless steel catering equipment is expensive. Shop fitting is exorbitantly expensive. I see a lot of the equipment (and the furniture) going through auctions, from businesses which have failed. I suspect a lot of the equipment comes up for auction repeatedly. You would have to have a pretty good turnover, and margin to handle the financing charges. There's a lot of competition. Selling booze is probably a better deal, but there's a lot of competition in that "rent coloured water" business too. |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 456901 | 2006-05-23 03:47:00 | Mr Milky - my advice is... ignore all the negatives posted above, and stick with the positives: Assuming you know how to cook and know how to maintain decent health standards and have appropriate certificates to prove it and have an awareness of the market where you're about to set up shop and have an understanding of the fickleness of customers and know how to attract a broader customer clientele and know how to make non-Watties tomato sauce and know a bit about interior design and are happy to run at a loss because you've got lots of capital... well then it's as easy as making a great pie. | Greg (193) | ||
| 456902 | 2006-05-23 04:26:00 | Hi Milk* Your post strikes me as odd. Funny place to come for advice on such a topic. How many experts in that field would anyone expect to find in this group. Quarry seems to be the top-dog at the moment but he/she walked away from it all... no help to you, I know, but it still seems an odd topic here. Did you try the prime words in Google? | Scouse (83) | ||
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