How To Start Your Own Home Based Meals To Go Business

If you are one of those people who love to cook, you might want to explore the possibilities of selling meals to go in your community. A lot of people are not really eating right these days. In most cases, families thrive on processed and instant foods because everyone is too busy to prepare a healthy meal. By offering home cooked meals to go, you will be able to help others eat more healthy foods and at the same time earn some money to contribute to the family coffers. If your neighbors and friends love your cooking, you will most likely have a lot of people knocking on your door and asking for a decent meal.

Getting Organized

If you happen to live in an apartment building where everyone leaves the place in a hurry everyday, you might want to offer some breakfast, lunch or dinner to go. However, before you do so, you better check with the building administrator to see if these things are allowed or you may get into trouble. There are many apartment buildings that do not really allow these things because this could be a source of fire hazards. On the other hand, if you have your own house, offering meals to go will not be much of a problem. In most cases, after complying with government regulations, you can start your home business immediately.

Organizing things for your food to go business is not really that difficult especially if you have a computer with internet connection in your home. You can start by asking the people in the building for their email or instant messaging address. You can send your menu for the day to these addresses and ask them to send you a message as to what they will have for breakfast, lunch or dinner. For your neighbors who do not have internet connection, you can just put a cork board outside your door where you can post your menu for the day. You may also provide for some paper and a box where your clients can write their order and then drop them in the box. Furthermore, having a business phone is a must. Some of your clients may want to call you to place or cancel their orders. Never rely on your home phone for this purpose. Always bear in mind that the home phone should only be used for personal transactions and the business phone should dedicated solely for entertaining clients.

Set a specific time and place where your clients can pick up their food. Make sure that you are ready and waiting a few minutes before your clients starts arriving so you will not have difficulties getting things in order.

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Sheila enjoys working part-time from home. She also enjoys sponsoring and mentoring others, and helping them find success with their work from home base business. Click here to contact Sheila and learn how you can start a work at home-base business.