Welcome to NK Randoms and today I'm going to make a video about how to start a street food business I've run my own coffee shop Student enterprise coffee shop at my university I opened that around that had a team of people under me also I ran a street food sourdough pizza Business for coffee here that was really fun and basically I had a few friends ask me like what are the steps? Because there's definitely a few and Let's go So here's my top 10 points and how to start street food Okay find your company's name It doesn't necessarily have to be the same as the brand name But it does help so for instance my husband at peace can't team them with it as my wife's company name That was different from the brand name the brand name was Tomatoes Pizza and like it can be the same but it's necessarily to be the same to the little companies like My Pepsi code is like the call is like the official name for the whole corporation that is Pepsi And it is like Pepsi UK Pepsi USA so it doesn't necessarily have the same but it's good to their own mind Same but if you look in the link down below you can basically find A place where you search How names you see they're going to be picked So it's a simple almost as a good deal Number two you register a company's house in the UK So you register a company's house online so simple as almost a few things and then you pay on mind like You would put anything out very quickly on either your account And they send you left up for me that you started a business There's several types of business you can open a private limited company a limited libel partnership a limited partnership and also you can open as a sole trader and just number three you need to get from free stand Take it easy So what I got was a level two food safety and hygiene for catering cost But also there's like options up the power there for like 100 pounds The one twenty pounds basically you get a power point and online power and you aren't suppression stray of them So one hundred pounds It's basically go to a pool you go to go in To okay bring his nourishment for a day They literally teach you the same But more hands on And if more Face-to-face Number four you register your business with the council then the council is then going Come and interview you check your establishment check your food setup Your equipment And if you have whatever they're gonna just interview you see what your plans are And based on that they'll give you a rating from one to five five green the best And based on that You'll be able to be able to trade But council tries to keep up hold to some standards So it's really important to know what you're up If you don't have this then you are able to trade anywhere But you have to be careful I did this almost like the first step Registry in the council can take a while you can think about the six months or more But generally for me to go up three four months But you want to do it as soon as possible because let's say there's the council busying stuff I mean you can be delayed You haven't been registered properly You're gonna have this be your bottleneck which is gonna slow you down It's really hard to actually register a home kitchen because it's it's basically for domestic use So it's really hard to uphold the highest standards So there will always be a few crimes a bit of mess Sometimes the door will be open to our side and you can't have A kitchen a commercial kitchen open to the outside elements where flights can come in So it's hard to get that license for instance But a street food outlet on the road in different places and stuff is much easier And you think almost that wouldn't be the case because you're outside But there's that kind of gray area in like street food Where they're very tolerant very tolerant But also you want to keep your standards high because on the small company you're more likely to be Searched like check out randomly because In new companies they're gonna just think about it. It's going to be an increased chance of The new company where it's just starting out and doesn't really know about industry Getting like food food hygiene problems Compared to large corporations where they have systems in place Which I've upheld really strictly. It's just bear in mind I mean because You could just get caught once and then you get banned Number five get your food equipment ready. I bought so much for Fee Bay and Vongeray I mean now it's so easy to set things up You don't need to be go to a specialist store everything's on my if you just do it from a click from your room Number six test out beforehand Um, I didn't actually use my pizza oven until the actual event for the first time That was the worst example and you know what The first trade event was so stressful because I used the wrong word Because it was with fire the other and you know what you want to basically I had out your problems before It really matters But the reason I had to be so fast is because it was It was already getting well into summer and I needed to be sending straight away I mean in the summer because the summer's peak season in the UK when the weather's actually all right So I first time I traded my pizza it was on the 22nd of June 2015 But if you don't if you don't trade you don't make money Like then you are the old to stay open So you got no one the busy times down really good shit number seven Apply to low to various local markets to trade For me it was about getting as many different experiences different parts of London festivals kind of rules street food markets To really understand what I wanted where I wanted to be Costs are anywhere from 20 pounds to 100 pounds today where sometimes a profit share is even wanted So they'll even think over 100 pounds of better say in the busiest most exclusive private events and then they want a profit share that's a 25% On top Number eight register with NCAST national nation wide Caterer's Association they help you write a risk assessment which is really do legally required if you want to officially trade And they also offer like free guidance so you can put them up and they'll give you like expert knowledge and advice and contacts and Even say you take so like private and public events We include that within the area you want to be trading This is fantastic because basically after you just apply in the jobs and it gives you it gives you a really good Number nine will help the internet is going It's so important to sell the basic website More than anything makes you look professional. I mean I create a website half a day Yeah, it's called tomato is dot code at UK and where you go for interviews to possible markets You don't know the impression you get I mean they're like they were so excited they four hours somebody legit and you know I just started up So you can start several basic websites for like three four five pounds a month or whatever things customized and so professional It with websites such as Squarespace Wicks go down the WordPress Really easy even easy than it ever was before Number 10 social media. It's so easy to create social media pages Instra and Facebook Twitter is a complete basic for any company nowadays And it's the beautiful thing is that it's free To open these sites up and connect your website And basically allows you to connect to future customers and fellow businesses Of course look professional. It was my top 10 point doesn't have to start street for company I can't tell you just when I had trading has a street food vendor. It was great fun. It was great sense of community and It was just the best when you get that compliment from someone saying you know what that piece was Something different, you know something really good Something great, you know, and just and just trading and just sharing food with people Trying to make it day even more fun And if you can do even a little bit of that I'm sure you're going to be really happy And if you got an idea to if you got an idea for a new unique street food business then just do it It's easy than it ever has been before if you have any questions just link me below I try to help you guys out as much as possible. I've got several different people actually ask me how to start The street food business. I've been telling them individually. So here. It's just everything you put down It's down to you guys now. So show me what you guys are made of