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Starting a Part-time Food Business: Everything You Need to Know to Turn Your Love for Food Into a Successful Business Without Necessarily Quitting Your Day Job Paperback – February 1, 2011

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Whether you're slaving away in a cubicle dreaming of turning your mother's secret jam recipe into the next 'it' food or wish you could turn your flare for flan into a moneymaking venture that doesn't conflict with your stay-at-home parenting responsibilities, it's possible to start and run a successful part-time food business.

Written for anyone who wants to start a small part-time or full-time food business on a limited budget, this comprehensive book provides the roadmap to help you realize your dream. Each chapter takes you step-by-step through everything you'll need to get your small food business up and running including:

* Building a business plan that will guide decision making and set you up for success;
* Obtaining the necessary business licenses, registering your business, and securing commercial kitchen space that meets health code requirements;
* Determining which sales channels will work best for you based on the detailed pros and cons outlined for each option;
* Understanding your true product costs and how to price your products in a way that will make you money;
* The role marketing and branding play in customer loyalty and how it can help you succeed; and
* Developing a system to help you keep track of business finances and detailed worksheets that walk you through the financial side of the business

This book also chronicles the stories of seven entrepreneurs who started their own small food businesses in their limited free time using minimal resources. Each of the 'How They Got Their Start' stories shares the mistakes and triumphs these entrepreneurs experienced in their first few years of business. From all walks of life, these stories include a twenty-something with modest savings who started a successful artisan ice cream company; a mother of toddlers who not only worked a full-time job but also started a whimsical cake company on the side; and a newly unemployed construction worker who decided to turn the bad economy into his good fortune by starting a meat jerky company.

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Nominated for the 2012 Small Business Books Awards by Small Business Trends

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A culinary professional who spent years working as a professional pastry chef for a luxury hotel chain, Jennifer Lewis founded her own small food company in 2006. In addition to a culinary degree, Jennifer also holds an MBA from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management with a concentration in Entrepreneurship, Marketing, and Finance. A part-time entrepreneur herself, Jennifer splits her time between running her business and working for a nonprofit organization.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Rabbit Ranch Publishing; 1.2.2011 edition (February 1, 2011)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 148 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0615437648
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0615437644
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 6.2 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.34 x 8.5 inches

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A culinary professional who spent years working as a professional pastry chef for a luxury hotel chain, Jennifer Lewis founded her own small food company in 2006. In addition to a culinary degree, Jennifer also holds an MBA from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management with a concentration in Entrepreneurship, Marketing, and Finance.

When not working in the kitchen, Jennifer tries to stay closely connected to her local food business community. She also loves running with her husband and dogs and dreams about the Wyoming ranch she hopes to one day buy. She loves nothing more then talking about food and entrepreneurship and encourages readers to join the conversation at www.smallfoodbiz.com.

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FaireMaiden

A Wealth Of Information

Reviewed in the United States on July 12, 2013

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I bought this book for my son who is an executive with a very lucrative salary, but whose heart is in the kitchen. He caters small parties at present and has had rave reviews of his food and many referrals. He especially wanted to know the basics of cost-analysis and pricing-out his food per person. This book, so he tells me, has been extremely helpful to him in this particular regard as well as informative across-the-board. His confidence in pricing his catering has risen exponentially for, while he's always happy cooking for these soirees, he feels he's now being adequately paid for his services. This book absolutely helped him to achieve his new-found confidence in pricing and has made him even happier to profit properly from his culinary labours of love. Buy with confidence.

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Megan S King

The perfect recipe

Reviewed in the United States on February 28, 2011

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With insightful guidance and practical step-by-step directions, this is really the perfect recipe for starting your own food-related business! Jennifer Lewis has created a great guidebook for how to think through starting your own business, and then follow through into making that business a reality. The real-life business cases make this book a true gem, as you get a real sense of the hard work and passion necessary for success! I definitely recommend this book for all - whether you are toying with an idea or ready to truly start-up- this provides the right direction to get you going! I think when you are done, you will say, like I did, "I can do this!"

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Bonnie

most important is what I did't know before taking the THE BIG LEAP!

Reviewed in the United States on October 8, 2013

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This book provided a lot of information to ponder. I was, maybe still am, thinking of starting a cookie business. This book gave me a lot to think about (and still am). The book also showed me what I had did not have a clue about!

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Fun Gus

Great examples and straight to the point

Reviewed in the United States on July 28, 2017

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Short read and much of it can then be used like a checklist -for these types of books this format works well - more a briefing and how to list

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mary

Easy Reading for the masses

Reviewed in the United States on April 20, 2014

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I got this book because I wanted to explore the idea of start up business. I was not surprised by the information supplied as I had read similar Information else where.

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Caitlin Guszkowski

You've made me feel like my dream

Reviewed in the United States on August 10, 2017

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I've read a number of books on running a food business and starting a bakery, but this is the only book I've encountered that validated my need to keep working while starting this business and generated a game plan to do both. I rewrote the complicated business plan I was trying to put in place with a reduced, direct plan based on the template provided here. Jennifer, THANK YOU! You've made me feel like my dream, even if only part-time for now, is achievable.

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Matt

Very Elementary

Reviewed in the United States on July 7, 2012

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If you are someone who appreciates a properly written book with commas and correct word usage, then this book is not for you. Coming from a seemingly educated author who has a master's degree, one would expect this writer to be much more skilled at writing. This book is literally written at what seems to be a middle school reading level at best, which in my opinion was offensive for the price I paid. Entrepreneurs deserve more in a book that is supposed to help one's business venture prosper.

This book really doesn't tell you much, which is a shame because I have only found a couple other books along this same genre. Only a few of the templates provided in the back of the book are worthwhile. The individual success stories were the best part about this book, whereas everything else is so superficial that it seems to be written more for people who have zero business knowhow and who are extremely rural folks. Also, the entire book mostly revolves around baking, which does not help as much for someone who is trying to make BBQ sauce or other food products. Also, only a handful of the Web resources were useful. It would have been nice to see more research on packaging because that represents a majority of your product costs. I have performed much research in the past month and have found many better places to find packaging and label printing (e.g. containerandpackaging.com or ebottles.com or psprint.com). Furthermore, the book should have provided a lot more information on constructing a proper formal business plan.

I don't typically write bad reviews, but I would suggest even to the most novice beginner that YOU SHOULD FIND ANOTHER BOOK! Try to find something local first that explains the laws of the region in which you live because that is where the journey really begins. Without knowing what the local laws allow, you cannot even begin to understand whether your idea will work. Overall, this book has inspired me to perhaps write my own book on the topic.

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Faustino F Santana

Very Informative

Reviewed in the United States on August 10, 2012

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The book is very inspirational, it shows you how food entrepreneurs had to overcome challenges in many different ways, and how they use their creativity to find solutions to their problems. I recommend for any one looking to get into the food business.

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Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 22, 2018

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Desdemona

Not Thorough

Reviewed in Australia on July 27, 2014

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From an author with what appears to be good credentials I expected a lot more from this book, particularly for the price.
Instead, what you get is a poorly written booklet which skims over each topic, some vague diagrams and templates and content that is, overall, only applicable if you're a US resident.

Unfortunately, I have to say that I would not waste my time with this one.

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