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Issue No.90

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Welcome to this March edition of our catering and food newsletter.
With a noticeable increase in new mobile catering businesses starting up this year the overriding main theme of our newsletters this season will be getting Back to Basics with information and ideas to help get your new business of to a flying start. In the excitement and enthusiasm to start up a mobile catering business lots of elaborate menu ideas are often put together without much thought going into practical usability and consumer demand for the menu items. This is a common early mistake that many existing mobile caterers will tell you they made when they first started up and through experience have reduced their menu to the items that actually sell well, are quick to prepare and cook under pressure and are easy to safely store if not sold.

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Deciding what type of foods to sell
This is where the real fun begins, deciding which food products your new mobile catering business will sell. You may be thinking of selling something unique, something different, something in tune with the latest healthy food trends, but most importantly, you need to find something that will sell with a good profit margin and attracts the public to buy over and over again...
Read more of this article and information here

Creating a manageable menu from scratch

You don't need a huge amount of different food products to put together a fairly good menu. From the basic food items of burger buns, hotdog rolls, jumbo sausages, burgers, rindless back bacon, eggs and cheese slices you can put together a variety of simple saleable fast food menu items.

1. Basic burger (burger and bun)
2. Cheeseburger  (burger, cheese slice and bun)
3. Jumbo hot dog (jumbo sausage and hotdog roll)
4. Bacon roll (2 rashers bacon, burger bun or hotdog roll)
5. Bacon and egg roll (2 rashers bacon, 1 egg and burger bun)
6. Sausage and egg roll (jumbo sausage flowered, burger bun, 1 egg)
7. Breakfast roll (jumbo sausage flowered, 2 bacon, burger bun, 1 egg)

As you can see from the examples above you can carry on combining items to create your menu. It's not a healthy eaters menu but can be easily adapted to a healthy menu by using the same principal of selecting no more than ten basic food items. Try changing burgers with chicken breast, burger buns with granary rolls, cheese and eggs with fresh salad or salsa sauce.