From pricing your services to honing your food presentation skills, this comprehensive guide provides a wealth of information about building a home-based catering business.
What Others Say
Okay but not exactly what I was looking for
I was interested in starting a part time catering business out of my home. Meaning part-time, cooking in my home. How to Start a Home-Based Catering Business, 5th (Home-Based Business Series) was very thorough but pointed out what I had found in the mean time that this is not possible. By working out of your home, How to Start a Home-Based Catering Business, 5th (Home-Based Business Series) means that you can run the business aspect (i.e. planning, selling, etc) out of your home. Separate (costly) kitchen facilities are required in most staes. So, while How to Start a Home-Based Catering Business, 5th (Home-Based Business Series) was informative for someone who is willing to put their career on the line and solely do catering, it did not work for my purposes.
bunch of ideas
...How to Start a Home-Based Catering Business, 5th (Home-Based Business Series) contains a lot of useful information, precautions and advices. The author gives also titles of books that are required for the caterer.
Gift for a beginning Chef
Bought this as a Christmas gift for a new Chef interested in starting their own catering business. So far they love it and find it very helpful.
Amazing and captivating
I read a lot (and I mean a lot, as I have thousands of books in my library), but this is one of the very few business books I've been truly inspired and uplifted by. When I say "the only book you need to succeed in catering" it's not only a cliche, I believe it's really true! In her writing, the author strikes the fine balance between telling you the 'real deal' and hardships of starting your own business, while managing to keep you motivated and telling you about all the positive that can come out of your efforts as well. It is extremely detailed, honest, passionate, and credible. This has truly been a fantastic help to me while I'm planning to launch my own catering business next year. Brava!!!
Ilegal to cater from home
Although the concept of How to Start a Home-Based Catering Business, 5th (Home-Based Business Series) is appealing, it is ILLEGAL by health department standards to cater from any home kitchen UNLESS it is fully licensed and certified as a commercial kitchen. Hopefully, this author is not giving permission to folks to attempt to cook and deliver food from home kitchens, which is completely against health department rules.
