How to Start a Catering Business - Tips for Beginners

How To Start a Catering Business – Tips for Beginners

Who doesn’t loves to be an entrepreneur?

Almost more than half of the population dream to be one. Among all other types of businesses becoming a food entrepreneur is considered to be 100% profitable business. If one is good at cooking and that’s the only passion, catering is the best option to choose from. Catering is a never dying business as we all have learned in science human needs energy to do activities and energy is derived from food we eat. Starting a catering business isn’t a tough job if proper study and pre-launch research is done. Just being a great cook will not help to run a successful catering company.

A person to be a successful caterer apart from being a good cook /chef has to be well organized, patient, consistent and creative. He or she must be willing to work under high pressure and in an environment that keeps changing quite often or every day. They must have good number of assistants or professionally well trained staff to assist in preparations, cleaning and serving.

Below are some of the tips that can be useful for beginners to start a catering business:

Deciding on the type of catering service and market research: Before getting into this business it’s important to decide what type of food or event one wants to focus on, for example just cooking, taking orders and delivering from home i.e.

Petite take away buffet catering, on premises or off premises, a small street food stall, buffet catering, wedding services, cocktail reception, bento catering. Once decided, the next step involves collecting supplies required for setting up the business structure along with all other legal permits if required to abide by. Before launching a catering service check out who else is carrying same business in the area. Deeply scrutinize competitor’s way of business - its offerings and key areas. To be successful in an area where there are many other providing services from the same business, it is of great importance to offer some benefits like affordability, uniqueness and highest hygienic condition, in short it’s important to give customer a reason to make their way to a newly opened catering business and prefer it over others.

Getting associated with Potential customers:Identifying customers is another important step to get your business a head start. For a home based catering service, a word of mouth or distribution of pamphlet is an effective way to get customers. But for a business which has to be done on a large scale i.e. providing catering services in corporates, small offices or any other establishment, one must contact associates in the business community to check out what companies look for in the caterers.

Gathering information about the services that corporate customers are looking for beyond food service is beneficial.

Deciding a niche: - As mentioned in the first point above its important to decide on what one wants to offer as a catering service. Making one stop for all services will definitely not help in the earlier start-up period. Hence its recommended to do a good market research and find potential customers to end up with the best niche.

According to the niche decided one can develop their product or service to target a particular set of customers. Again within a niche one can narrow and become a specialized one to serve better and focus more, for example, if the catering services niche is exclusively for children parties they can further narrow it to healthy foods only.

Such catering services might be preferred at children’s hospitals or in government schools where free food is offered to the children.

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