The ABC’s of Starting a Food Business
No- Cost SMALL BUSINESS WORKSHOP
for the Foodservice Entrepreneur
America’s SBDC New Jersey at Brookdale Community College invites small food service business owners of Monmouth and Ocean Counties to attend a no-cost foodservice workshop The ABC’s of Starting a Food Business at Brookdale Community College Lincroft, NJ. The workshop is geared towards people looking to launch a new food enterprise, farmers looking to make new value added products, and any food producer already selling food at farmers markets, wholesale, or through other marketplaces. In the afternoon registered individual can elect to receive no-cost, one-on-one, confidential one hour counseling sessions. (This is limited and on a first come, first served basis)
Do your friends and family tell you they’ve never tasted cookies as good as yours? Do your neighbors come knocking on your door asking you about your secret family recipe? Ever go to the farmers market and think to yourself, “I wonder if I could sell my homemade spice rub here?”
This workshop will give a potential entrepreneur an overview of the process of turning their home recipe into a commercial food product business. This is an intensive workshop for entrepreneurs looking to start a food product business, for entrepreneurs looking to grow from a home based business to a commercial business, or for entrepreneurs looking to start a commercial scale food business. The workshop will cover commercialization, packaging, labeling, pricing strategies, production, distribution, and more.