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How to Start a Home-Based Catering Business

How to Start a Home-Based Catering Business

by Denise Vivaldo

The Globe Pequot Press | November 1, 1999 | Trade Paperback

For those who want to be their own boss, change careers, or add excitement, challenge, and a boost to Social Security in the retirement years, starting a home business is the perfect option.

This series provides the tools to help launch a successful home business and keep it running in today's competitive environment. Like having a personal business advisor, each title in this series is crammed with insider information from professionals who've done it themselves, including:
-- Essential information on start-up costs, self-evaluation, and zoning regulations
-- Advice on how to attract first-time customers, maintain a loyal client base, and price services competitively and profitably
-- Easy-to-use worksheets and questionnaires to help entrepreneurs focus on success
-- Listings of contacts, organizations, and phone numbers of people in the trade.

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Do you like making food for fancy functions? Perhaps this is your dream career! Read all about the nuts and bolts of catering in How to Start a Home-Based Catering Service. The How-to-Start a Home-Based Business series helps the reader to understand issues such as zoning laws and what business strategies to undertake, as well as estimating start-up costs and attracting first-time customers. Get started with an invaluable source for the burgeoning entrepreneur. After all, the only boss you'll ever truly love is yourself.

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For those who want to be their own boss, change careers, or add excitement, challenge, and a boost to Social Security in the retirement years, starting a home business is the perfect option.

This series provides the tools to help launch a successful home business and keep it running in today's competitive environment. Like having a personal business advisor, each title in this series is crammed with insider information from professionals who've done it themselves, including:
-- Essential information on start-up costs, self-evaluation, and zoning regulations
-- Advice on how to attract first-time customers, maintain a loyal client base, and price services competitively and profitably
-- Easy-to-use worksheets and questionnaires to help entrepreneurs focus on success
-- Listings of contacts, organizations, and phone numbers of people in the trade.

From the Jacket

Are you passionate about parties? Do you live to cook? Now you can realize your dream of working from home at something you enjoy - a home-based catering business. Author Denise Vivaldo shares her experiences and advice on every aspect of setting up and running a thriving home-based catering business, from estimating your start-up costs and finding clients to outfitting your kitchen and staying profitable. She even offers tips on the latest high-tech help, including CD-ROM recipe books, culinary Web sites, and computer software designed especially for chefs and caterers. Learn all about defining your market niche, selling yourself as a pro, establishing your daily schedule, pricing your services, organizing parties with ease, honing your food presentation skills, avoiding the 10 most common home-based mistakes and much more. (7 x 10'', 224 pages, profit-and-loss worksheet, equipment checklist, master party checklist, sample catering contracts, sample menu themes, budget worksheet, business deductions)

Trade Paperback

224 Pages, 6.35 x 8.75 x 0.68 in

November 1, 1999

The Globe Pequot Press

English


0762704926
9780762704927

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