Good Food, Great Business

Business wisdom from more than seventy-five food industry experts, specialty food buyers, and entrepreneurs to help you start and run a small culinary concern.
For those ready to follow their foodie dreams (or at least start thinking about it) Good Food, Great Business is the place to get organized and decide whether creating a specialty food business is really possible. Whether the goal is selling a single product online or developing a line of gourmet foods to be sold in grocery chains, this working handbook helps readers become food entrepreneurs—from concept to production to sales to marketing. Using real life examples from more than seventy-five individuals and businesses that have already joined the ranks of successful enterprises, the book walks readers through the good, the bad, and the ugly of starting a food business.
In these pages, you’ll learn . . . Personal habits and business fundamentals that will help you in every walk of lifeHow to choose the business idea or ideas that best fit you and your personalityHow to determine the viability of those ideasConcrete steps you need to take to make your business a reality