Start your own specialty food business
Subtitle: your step-by-step guide to success
By: The Staff of Entrepreneur Media, Inc. & Cheryl Kimball
Contributors: Entrepreneur Media, Inc
Series: Entrepreneur magazine's startup; Entrepreneur magazine's start up
Publisher: Entrepreneur Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 161
ISBN-13: 9781599185835
Subjects: Management; Business planning; Small business; New business enterprises; Food service management; Entrepreneurship
Other titles: Entrepreneur magazine's startup start your own specialty food business; Startup start your own specialty food business
Description: "Fueled by growing consumer demand for new tastes, cleaner ingredients, health benefits, and more convenient ways to shop and eat, the business of specialty food is taking off at full speed. This step-by-step guide tells creative cooks and aspiring entrepreneurs how to make sure they're not left behind. Armed with a detailed overview of the specialty and gourmet food industry including how it differs from other food businesses, today's and tomorrow's trends, important research and statistics, and more, entrepreneurial foodies gain insight into industry growth drivers and opportunities. Covering behind-the-scenes business models and retailing businesses within specialty food, the experts of Entrepreneur help new entrepreneurs determine their best business approach assessing what they need to startup, expected expenses, the market, and competition. Location options, retail or production space, are explored and readers are given a lesson in all things digital. Coached by practicing entrepreneurs, aspiring business owners are given valuable insight with tales from the trenches including advice and tips on unique considerations within the food business, and important lessons in planning for the long term. The how-to provided is supported with worksheets, samples, and resource lists. "--

"Topping $100 billion in sales in 2014 and primarily driven by small businesses, the specialty food industry presents a ripe opportunity for food artisans and aspiring entrepreneurs. Teamed with practicing entrepreneurs, the experts of Entrepreneur deliver the details behind what's needed to get started and what it takes to succeed"--
Notes: At head of title: Entrepreneur magazine's startup.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Who puts the "specialty" in specialty food?; title: You like to eat but is this business right for you?; title: Meet your mentors; title: Pass the salt and pepper: business basics; title: You've been chopped!: market research; title: The necessary ingredient: financing; title: Home is where the stove is: location; title: All things digital; title: Chef, sous-chef, and kitchen help: employees; title: How to not cook the books: accounting; title: When "to market" means something else; title: Social media; title: Appendix: specialty food resources.