Home-based baking is one of America’s best-kept business secrets. This sleeper industry offers even novice bakers the opportunity to bake from home for profit using tried and true recipes and equipment already on hand. And yet its many rules and how-tos are so elusive that few people out there who love to bake and dream of taking their products from the kitchen to the market actually end up doing so. Enter How to Start a Home-Based Bakery Business—the first book to cover every essential aspect of planning, starting, and running such a business successfully.
Covering all that a small entrepreneur needs to know when setting up a bakery, this book begins with advice on first steps, including setting about the feasibility study. Subsequent chapters cover aspects of setting up the business, such as site and buildings, employees and training, quality control, health and safety, and the right type and scale of machinery and equipment.
If your baking skills have always attracted a lot of appreciation and praise, it's only fitting that you're thinking about using your natural talent to make money. Opening a bakery is fairly simple and straightforward, especially compared to other types of new businesses with much greater startup requirements; yet a good number of bakeries fail each year as a result of inadequate planning before launching. Just because your ganache is more velvety than velvet itself, doesn't automatically make you a successful businessperson. Since you already recognize that, you are far ahead of others in your chosen profession. This book is designed to guide you in opening a thriving bakery, and contains the essential steps and important tips necessary to find yourself on the path to success. With your talent, and my business acumen, together we'll ensure that you will have the best chance at making a mark in the culinary world. In the chapters to come, I'll help you channel the fiery passion displayed in your baking into other entrepreneurial necessities. Let's get started!
Are you one of the many people who dream of making a profit selling your own homemade foods? Now, with this one-of-a-kind, easy-to-follow guide, you can realize your home-based food business dreams! With over 30 years' experience, author Mimi Shotland Fix takes you step-by-step through the process of starting and running a food business.Whether you've always envisioned yourself with a home-based food business, need a second source of income or want to stay at home and be your own boss, Start & Run a Home-Based Food Business offers dozens of tips, examples and advice for you to run a profitable business from your own kitchen! The bonus download kit features resources and forms in PDF and MS Word formats. This includes: lists of books, websites and trade magazines, national and regional suppliers, sample contracts, invoices and accounting forms, tried-and-true recipes, and more!
An instant classic, this revised and updated edition of the phenomenal bestseller dispels the myths about starting your own business. Small business consultant and author Michael E. Gerber, with sharp insight gained from years of experience, points out how common assumptions, expectations, and even technical expertise can get in the way of running a successful business. Gerber walks you through the steps in the life of a business—from entrepreneurial infancy through adolescent growing pains to the mature entrepreneurial perspective: the guiding light of all businesses that succeed—and shows how to apply the lessons of franchising to any business, whether or not it is a franchise. Most importantly, Gerber draws the vital, often overlooked distinction between working on your business and working in your business. The E-Myth Revisited will help you grow your business in a productive, assured way.
Joy the Baker Cookbook includes everything from "Man Bait" Apple Crisp to Single Lady Pancakes to Peanut Butter Birthday Cake. Joy's philosophy is that everyone loves dessert; most people are just looking for an excuse to eat cake for breakfast.
Bakery Business Startup How to Start, Run & Grow a Trendy Bakery Business Up until about 25-30 years ago, there was something called the "Neighborhood Bakery." Everybody went there almost daily to pick up a fresh loaf of bread, or to buy some freshly baked chocolate chip cookies and even a few cupcakes. But the big grocery chains and their cheap machine-made full of additive bakery items took over our lives and ran the locally owned bakeries out of business. If you haven't, I urge you to take a look at the expiration date on any store-bought bread, what you see will shock you. I have seen breads with 30-day expiration dates. If you are like me, you would wonder how that could even be possible. People, in general, are getting more and more health conscious, and generation X & Y are into trendy, healthy, gluten-free, all-natural and organic food. And that is the very reason you may see more and more upscale; trendy bakeries are opening up around every city now. If you have a passion for a food-related business, this is THE time to get into it before someone else does it. You don't have to be a pastry chef or have a degree in culinary arts to be a bakery owner. Most successful bakeries are not owned by chefs or people who are into baking. But if you are into cooking and baking, sure that is always a huge plus. But remember a long-term success in any business comes from being dedicated, motivated and having some basic understanding of how small business and marketing works. Before you say, "oh I don't have that kind of money to start a bakery business" I think you should at least give my ideas a chance, I outlined every step of opening and running a successful bakery business including how to get funding when you are low on cash. I started my first bakery business six years ago on a very limited budget, and in just three years I opened up four more locations. If I wasn't making money, I sure wouldn't have expanded. But I will admit, it was a lot of work. I was glad when I had a great offer to sell all my locations. It was a great offer that I could not say no to. Anyway, this is not about my business success; it is about you and your success. This is not a book where I teach you how to bake bread or make delicious butter pound cakes, but it is about how to start, run and grow a successful bakery business and thrive. But Wait! Oh! I did share two of my secret recipes. First one is an all-butter pound cake, and the other is the delicious yummy Tres Leches (everyone's favorite). You will see how I used these two recipes as my secret marketing weapon and saw overnight success at the beginning. Here Is What I Show You In This Book. Who & Why You Should Open A Trendy Bakery Profitability & Break-Even Point Of A Bakery Business How To Find Money To Open A Bakery Estimated Cost And Expenses Estimated Monthly Income Knowing The Market And Setting A Trend Naming Your Bakery Business Plan Incorporating Your Business Licensing, Permits, EIN & Bank Account How To Find A Bakery To Buy Or Lease How To Find A Suitable Location How To Negotiate Lease Site Planning And Build-Out Menu & Signage Décor, Furniture & Equipment Management & Employees Choosing The Right Vendors Pricing & Accounting Marketing & Promotion My Secret Recipes Grand Opening And So Much More My only request is that you read this book with an open mind. Don't be that person who reads a bunch of how to start a business book and then think "I can't do that." Instead be that person that says "If he can do it, I can do it better than him. Let's get started, shall we?
IACP AWARD FINALIST • The expert baker and bestselling author behind the Magnolia Network original series Zoë Bakes explores her favorite dessert—cakes!—with more than 85 recipes to create flavorful and beautiful layers, loafs, Bundts, and more. “Zoë’s relentless curiosity has made her an artist in the truest sense of the word.”—Joanna Gaines, co-founder of Magnolia NAMED ONE OF THE BEST COOKBOOKS OF THE YEAR BY TIME OUT Cake is the ultimate symbol of celebration, used to mark birthdays, weddings, or even just a Tuesday night. In Zoë Bakes Cakes, bestselling author and expert baker Zoë François demystifies the craft of cakes through more than eighty-five simple and straightforward recipes. Discover treats such as Coconut–Candy Bar Cake, Apple Cake with Honey-Bourbon Glaze, and decadent Chocolate Devil’s Food Cake. With step-by-step photo guides that break down baking fundamentals—like creaming butter and sugar—and Zoë’s expert knowledge to guide you, anyone can make these delightful creations. Featuring everything from Bundt cakes and loaves to a beautifully layered wedding confection, Zoë shows you how to celebrate any occasion, big or small, with delicious homemade cake.
This beautiful hardback is packed with practical advice to help you improve your baking. It includes fascinating trivia covering the history of baking and the chemistry crucial to achieving winning cakes, biscuits, pastry, bread and baked desserts, as well as classic recipes to demonstrate techniques. Arranged into a helpful question and answer format and beautifully illustrated throughout, this is an in-depth guide for bakers of all levels of skill, an invaluable companion to the Great British Bake Off recipes books, and the perfect gift for Mothers’ Day.
Pet Bakery Business Startup How to Start, Run & Grow a Trendy Pet Bakery Business Inspired by that British (BBC) television program called The Great British Bake Off and love, more pet owners are making homemade treats for their furry companions. Fueled by the rapid spread of information on the internet, there are what seems like an unending array of pet recipes. It's never been easier to treat Fido and King homemade artisan dog treats. And for those dog owners who haven't yet jumped into baking for their pets but are more than willing to buy gourmet treats, some of the best options can be found at places often called pet bakeries. Whether the bakery is online or in a physical retail establishment across town, pet owners, especially those who own dogs, are willing to spend a reasonable amount of money so their pet can enjoy a delicious treat. More pet owners are developing the tendency to treat their four-legged friends with the same attention and appreciation as their children, for they have chosen to not have any of their own or are waiting for the right circumstances to have or adopt some. Another reason for the rise in homemade treats is a growing realization that commercially bought treats contain dubiously healthy-if not shockingly dangerous- ingredients. For those owners who want to ensure their pets have nothing but food and treat with the healthiest ingredients, it's really not a long jump to creating homemade treats. After all, you can easily see this as a natural extension of food-buying if you're already dedicated to organic and natural ingredients in your own diet and that of your family. I started making various dog treats at home out of necessity and to make sure our dog always had something healthy to eat. But my hobby quickly grew into a passion and soon I saw a demand for dog treats from extended family, friends and neighbors. The next step came almost naturally, after my husband suggested that I look into opening my own pet bakery, I started looking and researching the idea and soon enough the concept turned into reality and I never looked back. But this book is not about my success story but yours, in this book, I show you a step by step process that anyone can follow and open up their own Pet Bakery even from home. In This Guide I Discuss: Why Your Pets Need Fresh Treats How To Tell If Your Dog Has Food Allergy Food Nutrition And Food Safety What Kind Of Nutrition Your Dog Needs What Vitamins Your Pets Need Organic Vs. Commercial Food FDA, AAFC, OTCO And USDA Regulations Dangerous Additives To Avoid Equipment And Supplies You Will Need To Get Started Recipes Your Dogs Will Love 12 Traits Of A Successful Business Owner The Bridge From Hobby To Business Step By Step Transition To Starting Your Own Business How To Market Your New Business Business Plan To Success 6 Must Do's For Your New Business How To Pick The Right Legal Structure State And Local Regulations And so much more...
