How To Operate A Mobile Catering Business?

| Friday, September 7, 2012
By Christine Castillo


If you are an entrepreneur, mobile catering is a great business idea especially if you love food and cooking. You can create with some tasty foods to sell and from there, people will always be curious to try them and promote them to others particularly when you're expert at cooking and marketing. Mobile catering in particular markets food-in-a-cart model of cooking and offering foods so people can readily gain access to their food desires. It can either be through the use a vehicle, bicycle, or hand to manage and sell regularly to the public. This is appreciated in the United States generally throughout celebrations and fanfares where people look for a movable catering unit. Now if you are interested to handle a mobile kitchen business then here are the tips to be successful in mobile catering:

1. Pick the best foods that you can offer from your mobile kitchen. Mobile catering trailers usually have breakfast goods that incorporate egg sandwiches, bagels, bacon sandwiches, donuts and coffees. They also offer sausages, hotdogs and frozen snacks such as ice cream. Well, it depends on your target customers' needs so choose the right type of food for them. Think of these as an example and if you believe you can carry those similar foods then go for breakfast, coffee and snacks as well. 2. Be sure that it is less complicated for the public to purchase and eat the food they have purchased at your store. Provide your customers with a fine and clean place to hang around while expecting their orders.

Now to be able to have full operation in this business, you must execute the following prerequisites: Registration - before opening the business, you must register your movable catering service and vehicle with the acceptable agency. Inspection - the registered business will be evaluated in different categories as well as the cleanliness of your food arrangement and storeroom area. There will also be assessments of probable hazards and food management security. If there is any need for maintenance or development, a written note will be issued offering a period of time in which you may bring your unit to normal guidelines before operation.

Issuance of Sanitation Certification. Certification will demonstrate that you have acceptable education in food hygiene and state prerequisite. This will also certify you with having knowledge of temperatures for cooked or reheated foods, refrigerator temperatures and when to avoid cross contamination or chemical and contamination of products is needed to receive a sanitation or food hygiene permit. Insurance. adequate insurance to guard yourself and your customers. This are the employer's liability insurance (claims in the event or instances of food poisoning or any property or personal injury induced by your product or vehicle. Licensing. This will depend on the state or region you may be required to bring one or more caterer's licenses before you to business operation.

The key principles that can help you pick the right strategy to be able to survive in this industry are: 1. Knowing exactly who your buyers or target prospects are; 2. Understanding want and need of you customers; 3. Refining your strategy according to what you learn; 4. Implementing your marketing messages, campaigns and sales channels.




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