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Food Business Trends Food/Restaurant Delivery Service
Some food business trends require no cooking, and here is one of them. You will contract with restaurants to deliver food for menu price plus your fee for food delivery. Your customers will be couples and individuals who prefer to stay at home, but want restaurant food. Hotels, motels, and businesses sponsoring workshops, and seminars may find this service convenient.
What you need to know about this business
- Start up costs is between $12,000 and $30,000, if you use your own vehicle.
- Customers pay $6.00 to $10.00 plus delivery fee. You can get more for special orders.
- The income potential is $25,000 sand up
- This is an out-of-home business except for record keeping
How to market this business
- Place ads on radio and cable television stations, in local newspapers, telephone directories, and local parent’s publications
- Print and distribute menus of the restaurants you deliver for in a direct mail campaign to organization, hotels, college campuses, businesses and area residents
- Referrals from restaurants whose food you serve
- Donate services to local food banks and announce it through a press release
Target Market
- Working couples
- Singles
- Busy Families
- Employees working late
- College campuses
Home based business Equipment
- Vehicle (some have specialized built in compartments that keep prepared foods hot or cold)
- Home office setup with a computer and database software of customers and restaurants
- Hand trucks, container, pager and cell phone
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