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How To Start Catering From Your Home
By Lloyd M. Gordon - $21.95
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basic primer for person desiring to start up a catering business from their
home.
Thousands of hopeful would-be-caterers make a feeble attempt to supplement
their incomes by providing some catering services for a fee to friends, strangers
and their local community. It is really a very simple addition to their normal
daily existence. What additional training do you need? After all, how many times
have you actually created a food feast for fifteen to fifty people?
However, although it is the day dream of many, it is but the province of a
few to create and operate a profitable catering business starting from their
home.
This booklet makes you aware of the benefits and pleasures as well as the
dangers and pit-falls of starting small and from your own home.
Format: Three ring binder, loose leaf, 34 pages
List of Topics
Catering As An Art
- Financial Planning For Success.
- Other Advantages of Catering As A Business Opportunity
- Some Disadvantages
- Requirements For a Successful Caterer
- Evaluating Potential Markets For Your Business.
- Practical Suggestions For Getting Started.
- Getting Your "Toe In The Water" Or Actually Starting
Menus
- Your Menu As A Marketing Tool
- Pricing, Sales Policies and Add-Ons
- Closing The Catering Sale And Making The Agreement (Sales Contract)
- How To Make Money From Your Catering
- Keeping Within The Law While Catering.
- Filling Your Insurance Needs
- Record Keeping Requirements
- The Need For An Attorney
- Funds You Need To Begin.
- Ideas For Making Your Catering Presentation More Attractive.
- Showmanship Techniques In Catering
- Make Sure That Your Food Arrives In Optimum Condition.
- Use Your Personnel For Their Maximum Effectiveness.
- How To Collect For Your Services
Forms to Use
- Independent Caterers Form 101 - Job Inquiry Check List
Instructions On How To Use Independent Caterers Form 101-Job Inquiry Check
- Independent Caterers Form 102 - Work Assignment
Instructions On How To Use Independent Caterers Form 102 - Work Assignment
- Sample Catering Contract Form 103
Instructions On How To Use Sample Catering Contract: Form 103
- Employee Work Schedule Form 104
Instructions On How To Use Employee Work Schedule Form 104
- Daily Production Check List For Kitchen: Form 105
Instructions On How To Use Daily Production
The key to your practical success is summed up in this section of this book.
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"Keeping Within the Law While Catering
"Since everyone loves great food, and many men and women love to cook,
why isn’t everyone who loves to cook preparing food in their homes to
sell to those other people who love to eat tasty foods? Since a vast marketplace
exists for the service why aren̓t hundreds of thousands of independent
caterers out there supplying the need? The answer may be LOCAL LAWS AND ZONING!
"Food is perishable. Storing food before and after preparation and cooking
requires a knowledge of proper techniques, the utilization of proper storage
and service equipment and the willingness on the part of the preparer to make
the time and effort to protect the product from contamination and spoilage.
"In some corners of the world, people exist without refrigeration, freezers
are unknown, and food products are protected from spoilage by salting them in
various way;. Fortunately, in the USA. the latest in equipment and techniques
are available to provide a wide diversity of methods for keeping and holding
food for long periods.
"Cities, municipalities, and local governments of all sizes are alert
to the danger of contamination of the food supply chain. Inspectors, investigators,
scientists and lawmen are constantly on the alert to protect populations from
tainted food products. Anything that goes into people̓s mouths becomes
suspect. Large sums of taxpayer̓s money goes to prevent even one person
suffering from the effects of improper food handling.
"Laws and ordinances are placed on record to prevent unsupervised individuals
from selling prepared food to each other. Zoning ordinances exist to prevent
a citizen from creating a nuisance for his neighbors operating a business from
his home. In perspective, these prohibitions against unsupervised preparation
of foods being sold from unsupervised households is logical in protecting the
many from the mistakes of the few. So it must be for those of you who wish to
be caterers. The law views with displeasure your operating a food establishment
from home.
"Most communities have laws which make it illegal to cater from your
home."
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