Overall, in France, there was a real desire to start a business. But between envy and reality, there is a world to go through and several questions to answer. In particular the area of activity of your future company. Have you thought about food or cooking?
Cooking and food are two areas that have been relatively neglected in recent years.
With the concern of our modern societies to do more and more, some activities have been disdained and passed in the background. You understand we do not have time for these banalities.
Yet, these banalities are important.
To paraphrase I do not really know who we are what we eat. Literally. Our health depends, among other things, on what we eat. If we eat me, do not be surprised, over time, to have health concerns.
Not to mention the pleasure of cooking, to share a moment of conviviality with friends or his spouse, to realize something of these 10 fingers, to taste a good little dish simmered with love.
Our diet is important.
Fortunately, in recent times, the trend is reversed: food and cooking are finding important places in our lives and our societies, places they would never have left.
I want as evidence the increase of cooking shows on television (yes, I know, I still watch TV :-)).
Between the various competitions of gastronomic cuisine, open to quasi-professionals or simple amateurs, the contests of the best restaurant, best bistro, best baker, ... and the classic emissions for better eating, there is no doubt: cooking and food find again their letters of nobility.
Well, let's not be fooled, there is still a mercantile will behind all this. But if it's about promoting good to do good, after all ...
Moreover, you could take advantage of this trend and cumulate the positive points:
- promote good;
- do good ;
- you create an additional income or even create your business.
In other words, create your own activity in the food or culinary field.
The possibilities are not lacking.
Create your business
The ultimate: simply create your own business in the food or culinary field.
Whether it's a shop or a restaurant.
Yes, it can seem intimidating.
Holding a restaurant is certainly not easy. But you can start small by being a waiter or a kitchen clerk, a story or even the workings of the interior without having (yet) responsibilities. If along with that, you train yourself on business management, finances, and team animation, you will make your own curriculum for you.
You can also not go alone and decide to work with professionals. One solution is to open a food franchise. Food franchise offers are not lacking, whether in catering or distribution. And some are in targeted and buoyant markets, like bio, for example.
Create a secondary activity
OK. Creating your business directly is definitely too much for you. And then attack at the lower level: create a small secondary activity.
This is a great way to gauge an idea of activity before going to the next level, to release some additional income always good to take and to please you.
Here are 2 examples from real life experiences. But I'm sure that by looking, you must be able to find other ideas ...
The cooking class
You do not have to be a well-known, star-studded chef to teach private cooking classes on television.
You can very well do it at home. Welcome 3 to 8 people to your home and prepare with them a dish, or a meal, with which they will leave. If you charge the course 40 € and doing 1 to 2 classes per week, you can make a nice little extra income at the end of the month. While delighting your students and making you happy.
The trick is to offer special cuisines. For example, I know someone who specializes in Asian cuisine and another who specializes in American cupcakes.
Home cooking
Invite yourself to the private individual and prepare him his evening meal.
Of course, it is not about his dinner in the middle of the week in metro-work-dodo mode. We are more on the evening meal of the weekend with some guests.
The competition of the caterers is present, even rough. And the individual can claim a price down. But the pleasure of a fresh home-made meal is a valid argument. And if in addition, you do the service ...
Create a blog
The blog is also in tune with the times. So why not marry blog and cooking or food?
Yes, I know, others have done it before you. And some are behemoths.
And after?
The fact that they exist, these behemoths and this myriad of smaller sites, especially indicate that there is a market, a demand.
I know, for example, that fellow bloggers have created their own blog, about the companions of their companion. One specializes in recipes at a good price, the other in gluten-free cooking.
For my part, I work my companion to create a blog dedicated to chocolate. For now, she resists. But, one day, I'll get it. Unless I create this blog myself ...
In itself, a blog does not bring in money. But there are plenty of ways to generate income: advertising, affiliation, ...
Conclusion
The current craze for cooking is perhaps a sign that you can start your activity in the food or culinary field. Think about it!
In addition, the 3 ideas can be part of a global plan:
- you start creating a small secondary business just to gauge the market and find your first customers;
- you create your site, backed by a blog, to promote your business and publicize your expertise and know-how
- you go to the final stage by creating your business and being your own boss.
So? When do you start?