Everything you need to help start your own mobile event catering business for free.
Useful business advice, help, ideas and tips
to get your new mobile outdoor event catering business started.
START UP A MOBILE CATERING BUSINESS
STEP1. PLANNING
What's involved
It looks so easy, but what's it really like running your own mobile catering
business? In short no different than running any other type of business, from
our own personal experience of owning three businesses at different times,
including mobile catering for many years it requires a lot of hard, sometimes
physical work, dedication and perseverance to make it work.
The main point to remember is that your mobile
catering business will require you to go out and find the customers (unless you
have a fixed trading position), whereas a shop in the high street always has
passing trade which they need to attract in. Both have their advantages and
disadvantages, the shop in the high street will be paying huge business rents -
rates and will have competition on the doorstep, whereas your mobile catering
business will probably only end up paying a pitch fee for the day or weekly site
rent, plus you will be able to pick and choose where you operate for the best
financial gain.
Unfortunately many individuals who plan to start up mobile catering are under
the impression that they can pick up a cheap trailer, park it wherever they like
and start trading. The reality is that with all the current food safety
regulations and roadside trading laws those individuals fail to make it past the
first six months in business through a lack of planning.
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