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Do you love food and have an entrepreneurial spirit too? Do you dream of launching your own foodie business to combine making a living with doing something you love and have a passion for? If so, starting a business in the food space might be your calling. From meeting the increased demand for healthier options to whipping up delicious, sumptuous meals, there’s a niche for everyone in the food industry. While it’s often hard work, owning a food-based business is also rewarding when you see your customers’ reactions to your cuisine. So have a look at these ideas and see if any of them could work for you.
There is a growing popularity in mobile food businesses and trucks are trendy. As a business idea, having a truck can be a lot cheaper than opening a new restaurant. Consumers get convenience- and often a fun, unique experience with some of the new creative food truck concepts. You can sell all sorts of food from a food truck but offering quick service and convenient access is essential. This business can really pay off because of the visual attention; you can even get yourself a seating area and market umbrellas if you get a location fit for it. There are also now so many food truck events, or you could even be hired out for weddings and other events.
As a private chef, you can prepare meals in advance and deliver them to clients, or you can do the cooking in their home. There are different types of clients who hire personal chefs from busy families to corporate executives. You might get people who have special dietary needs or people who just don’t like to cook. A career as a personal chef can be an excellent option for those who enjoy cooking and for those who don’t want the stress that comes with working larger events or managing lots of people.
Do you love eating food and do you enjoy writing? If so, then combine the two and use your hobby of going out and trying new foods and restaurants to start a food blog. Have you tried some fantastic things on your travels or perhaps somewhere small and local to you and you wish the world knew more about them? Take it upon yourself to spread the word about all the beautiful delicacies you have tried, and you can even include some lovely recipes in your blog.
Another fun idea if you enjoy food but don’t know how to prepare it is to take lovely photographs of it. Take some good ones, and you can sell your pictures to food magazines and blogs or even work as a freelance food photographer for different events.
Today, many people don’t have the time to prepare home-cooked meals, but at the same time, they are more and more health-conscious and don’t want processed meals. Opening a homemade frozen food delivery business could make you quite a bit of money, so if you have the appliances and equipment, and enough free time then start preparing and freezing food that you’ll could then deliver to your customer’s doorstep.
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Welcome to Birds and Lilies! I'm Lou: mother, blogger and freelance writer. This is my lifestyle blog, where I talk about motherhood, infertility and IVF, beauty, my love for food and wine, as well as my thoughts about stuff, and our real-life and travel adventures.
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