Start Up Projects: Turn Private Recipes Into Big Businesses

Making private recipes into big businesses and family recipes can also achieve your entrepreneurial dream.

When you enjoy the long aroma of cheesecake baked by your grandmother, or when you taste the rich smell of your father's barbecue sauce, you may wonder how you can bring these family recipes to the world.

Can you start a business around family cookbooks?

Of course!

But first you have to do a lot of preparations.

To get feedback, you may need to invite friends and family to try these dishes at church fairs or similar occasions. Stephen and Holzer suggest that you must do so. StephenF.Hall

She wrote the book from kitchen to market (FromKitchentoMarket), and founded FoodMarketingInternational company.

The company is located in Arizona, USA, which provides guidance for special food enterprises.

Holzer suggested that if you want to scale production on a large scale, you must study the cost and find a partner -- a company that can produce and package your products.

When Eve founded EveLemon 'Nature sPopcorn in 2001, she took the first step.

She produced many flavored organic popcorn products RastaPop on the basis of her aunt's seasoning popcorn.

"The advantage of cooperative packaging companies is that they know all the industry information," says lemon.

"My cooperative packaging company knows those companies that can offer labels at the lowest price."

In the beginning, he sold products on his wagon and sold them to local grocery stores.

"There was no product like RastaPop at that time," said lemon, 39.

"Now I go to the natural food store, and almost no one will refuse my product."

She even sent her products to a supermarket chain like Kroger and WholeFoods near his hometown in Atlanta.

Today, lemon offers a wide range of flavors, from garlic flavor to spicy taste, and plans to expand its sales to the east coast and south of the United States, eventually spreading across the United States.

In 2006, the company's sales exceeded $1 million.

For the entrepreneurs looking for opportunities in the food industry, it is very important to test the new products on a small scale, RickCitron said.

He is an entrepreneur and a lawyer in Citron&Deutsch company.

The company is a legal and business consulting firm located in Losangeles.

"You can set up a small pavilion in the shopping area of the shopping center to see if people like your products, packaging and prices," he said. "You can do this in the grocery store - they always look forward to having new products to test."

Hitlund also stressed the importance of calculating cost - raw material cost should only account for 25% of the final price, because you may take 50% of the retail price as the wholesale price, and the other 25% should include marketing and distribution costs, as well as profits.

Of course, you can also start a part-time career, just like Pamela Fishman Cianci (PamelaFishmanCianci).

She founded the Sugar&Spike company in 2004, which is an enterprise in San Francisco producing special cake, walnut chocolate cake and cookie.

Her first product is her great grandmother's rum cake.

She is still working part-time, but has sold products to the United States, and sales in 2006 broke through millions of dollars.

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