Start
A Personal Chef /
Catering Business
Imagine
having a rewarding high-paying job that lets you
use your creativity and love of cooking as a caterer
or personal chef.
Caterers and personal chefs both offer food services
to a variety of clients. Caterers are hired to provide
food, beverages, and service for functions ranging
from an intimate dinner party to weddings, conferences,
and other events for hundreds or even thousands
of people. Personal chefs are hired to prepare a
limited number of meals for individual families
or to provide in-home catering for small dinner
parties.
Both careers give
you the opportunity to enjoy the freedom of having
your own business.
Even
if you have no formal cooking training, you can
start your own catering company or personal chef
service or do both.
With thousands of catered events taking place throughout
North America every day, there is tremendous demand
for caterers. Catering is a $5 billion a year industry,
and enjoys a growth rate of about 5% per year. As
long as couples get married and corporations host
annual parties and conferences, caterers will be
needed.
Personal
chef services are also in great demand. According
to Entrepreneur Magazine, the personal
chef business is among the fastest-growing in the
country and one of the best home-businesses to start
in 2004.
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Here
are some excellent resources to get you started
in your Caterer / Personal Chef Business:
Start
a Website for this Business
So,
after checking out the resources above you
have decided to start a Personal Chef /
Caterer Business. Wonderful!! Even though
with this type of home business you don't
need to have a Website... I feel
the need to let you know what a mistake
it would be to not have
a website. There is nothing more professional
than handing a business card to a potential
client or customer and telling them they
can get more information on your website.
Customers LOVE this!! I don't know how many
times I have left a meeting with a vendor
and I forgot to ask a couple of questions..
no problem. I just take a peak at their
website and I have all my answers. Or, I
can just look on their website for their
email and email the vendor my question.
Websites
are no longer expensive or difficult to
make. Take a peak at our "Free Online
Guide to Building a Website" and at
least consider the possibilities of having
a website.
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