Many people want to be food entrepreneurs, but most of them are confused. They don't know what to do next. They don't know where to start. Do they want to know if the formula is approved? A sign?  

If you have to start your food business, here are some suggestions for your reference. These suggestions can guide you to all the things you need to do before your first sale. I hope you can find value in it so that your business can be improved.

Let's get started:

  1. Select your company name

The method is simple-find some friends and family and writes their names on a piece of paper. But don't stop imagining, you need to think about your company name seriously.

Most people don't want their logo to be similar to others. And you can't use the logo registered by others. In other words, logo names are also limited. Because a good-looking logo is loved by everyone, and it can make customers better

2. Decide what you want to do

You need to know what you can do. For example, making barbecues, selling cookies, ice cream, milk tea, and sandwiches? You can consider what product line you want to launch. You need to make sure that your company name reflects the focus or depth of your product line. In addition, you also need to know how many products you need to sell at one time.

Before you want to do business, you need to do a lot of information to make your products more advantageous. So that more profits can be obtained.

ice cream kiosk

 

 

3. Design a logo (and other materials)

This is the exciting part! What do you want your logo to look like? So you can start designing a logo to make your logo more advantageous. Whenever you are designing something, you need to ask yourself, what kind of feedback do you want from customers? You need a professional designer to help you design your products. I have been using this website to provide affordable design help.

When you have your own logo design, you must design packaging, business cards, sales lists, and so on with the same designer. Because this designer can know your product very well, they can better know what your brand means.

Because the designers who help you make your logo already know the origin of your brand clearly, they can handle what you want well.  

stainless steel logo

4. Website

You should build your website before launching your product. You can put your product information on the table so that customers can know your products in advance.

5. Certificate

These are important documents. Steps 1-4 are very simple, but they are very important for the brand promotion of the company. We need to know whether we need to apply for any licenses before producing products.

Food producer licenses (usually you can obtain these licenses through the state health department office)

Caterer's license (if you prepare and serve food for immediate consumption)

The planning process (If you are producing canned products, it should be approved by the process authority. Here's more about that)

Business license (If you want to become a company, a limited liability company, or a partnership, you can file documents with your secretary of state's office to become a real business)

Product liability insurance (basic insurance is the US $1 million for general liability and the US $2 million for general liability

Legal protection (you may want to protect your company name and its visual logo-even a unique slogan)

  1. Find food packaging

How are you going to pack your products? Different products have different packaging methods. There are many packaging methods, such as glass jars, printed bags and so on. Your planning process may require how you package your products, so you may be limited. You can buy packaging according to your own needs.

7. Determine the price of the product

This can be said to be the most important part of the whole project, that is, your product cost. It determines whether you have a viable business. It determines your price on the shelf. If you don't do it right, it may break you down. Here are some things to consider when you open your business.

Here are the things that are included in the cost of your product:

  • Ingredients (plus freight! )
  • Packaging
  • Labor

If you have your own kitchen, you also need to pay rent, utilities, and other expenses. Ultimately, you need to produce and sell enough products to keep the balance, so as to make profits.

8. Mall Kiosk

frozen yogurt kiosk

Running kiosks in shopping malls is a satisfactory and profitable business. The key to running a successful kiosk in a shopping mall is to attract customers. This means that when you build your business, you need to consider how attractive your kiosk is and how you can decorate it to attract customers. If you already have a mall kiosk business, you can improve the appearance of your kiosk with some holiday decorations.

Choose a color scheme for your mall kiosk and make sure that the decorations you choose match that color scheme. For example, if you sell milk tea, you may choose pink and white as your color scheme. Add matching decorative items, such as milk tea cups, to the overall design of your kiosk.

Our paint colors can be customized, we can match your choice of color scheme that kiosk to do table show-off processing. Any items around the kiosk, such as stools or chairs, should also be painted with matching colors. If you can't paint, you can paste colors that match your choice of the color scheme in different areas of the kiosk.

display stand

You can see the main color of the kiosk is purple and white. The left color of the kiosk has a bubble tea cup shape that can decorate the goods, and the right of the kiosk has a stand that installs the two light boxes. The front of the kiosk has a circle of colorful acrylic which can make the whole kiosk more attractive and close to the bubble tea theme. The back of the kiosk has four ice cream light boxes, which can make the whole kiosk more unique and can display the menu easily. And also can decorate the kiosk. For the countertop we use white stone, it can match the purple.