About The Book

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Category: Non-Fiction
Publication Date: 2007
ISBN 978-0-9765703-2-5
Pages: 264
Trim Size: 6 x 9
Binding: Soft cover/perfect bound
Illustrations and Images: 115
Back matter: Appendix, bibliography, index
Rights: Barbara J Fitzgerald
Distributed by: Carnival Press
Publisher: Carnival Press
List: $34.95

 

Premise:

Food Booth, The Entrepreneur’s Complete Guide to the Food Concession Business is a step-by-step "how-to" guide to designing, managing, and operating a successful food concession business. Based directly on the author’s twenty-plus years of experience, Food Booth is a rare insight into the unconventional, yet surprisingly lucrative field of earning cash income selling food at fairs, festivals, and special events. It provides concrete no-nonsense information about how to start your food concession business from the ground up, how to develop a schedule of lucrative events, how to manage your business to reach your sales potential quickly, and compound your sales year after year.

• Considering starting a food concession.
• Unemployed or underemployed and need a dependable source of income.
• Have already worked for a concessionaire and are now ready to start your own concession.
• Are ready to take your business knowledge and experience and apply them to a new business.
• Want to make an income while working from home and being your own boss.
• A non-profit seeking fund raising opportunities.
• Part-time employed and wish to start a business to fill the income void.
• A retiree wishing a fun way to travel and make money.
• A student needing a job that won't interfere with your class schedule.
• A family that believes in working together for the things they enjoy.
• Hard to employ due to being under-educated, over-aged, or an ex-convict.

The book is designed to guide you with the information you need to start and run a successful concession business. It is concise, thorough, and offers in-depth information that even experienced concessionaires will find useful. The language is clear, readable and straight to the point. It explains:

• How you can calculate your potential earnings before you spend any money on your new business.
• 8 Important things you should learn about an event before you sign up.
• How to avoid buying unnecessary health department licenses.
• The key reasons some menus make money and some don’t.
• 7 important things successful vendors know that makes them successful.
• How to profit from the mistakes other new vendors make.
• How you can easily sell food at an event without buying a booth or equipment.
• 9 Key things you can do right now to get yourself ready for this business.
• 10 reasons why this is the right business at the right time.

The book also includes example event applications, health permit license applications, and business forms. You will learn everything you need to get your business started and reach your profit potential quickly.

The information in the book is divided into four parts. The first section, Planning your Business, addresses the process of due diligence. The second, Planning your Booth and Equipment, is about the nuts and bolts of the business assets. The third, Scheduling Events, addresses the particulars of concession venues. And the fourth, It’s Show time, talks about the activities of management, operations, and making money. Where appropriate I have included dozens of photographs and various example event and health permit applications, accounting forms, worksheets for illustration, and a planning guide to keep you on track. And finally, there’s an appendix of resources at the back of the book to help you locate sources of outside information.

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