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Overlooked Catering Opportunity?

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I picked this up from another forum and thought it might have a use for some of our folks,trying to pick up business.

Overlooked Catering Opportunity


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BBQinFL
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Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 9:46 pm Post subject: Overlooked Catering Opportunity

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I've never aspired to doing a real catering gig. Just seems like too much work for too little reward.

However...

I live in a small county that is very commercial. Lots of businesses... lots of restaurants, etc.

I've recently visited several local lunchtime restaurants who cater to the business crowd, and dropped them off each a finished pork butt, hot from the cooler.

I have an 80% call back rate of restaurants who want at least 2 cooked butts per day.

I currently charge $8 per lb cooked weight for pork butts. I can't keep up with demand, so I need to get another cooker.

Just a thought for those of you who want to profit from your Q. Opportunities abound.
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FM Former Member
There is already a member here that has been making a nice living doing this for the last year and a half Wink. As a matter of fact....This particular member is shutting down their restaurant just to do this alone.(and SOME catering)
Name and local of said member shall remain unspecified Big Grin
Zeb
FM Former Member
[QUOTE]Originally posted by hawsfli:
Roll Eyes Does one need to be lisenced and work out of a certified kitchen to do this? /QUOTE]

Unless you have an unusually lenient health code, you will need a commercial kitchen.

Not only that, but any restaurant that you provide product to will want to make sure that proper handling and temperature holding are observed. The last thing they want is to have their customers become ill, so they will be paranoid about your ability to deliver a safe product. So, proper food handler's licenses and health department inspections will be a plus, not a minus, in getting your product marketed to retail establishments.
FM Former Member
hawsfli,
your rig will work just fine for this.
i know mine does Big Grin
custom work is what is building our business up. we are taking it one step at a time but on custom work our food cost is 25%. way better than catering or even the farmers market.
knowing how tight fisted zeb is i would bet his food costs were somewhere around 15 to maybe 18%.
jack
ps. zeb. the really funny part is you and i talked about this a ways back lol Big Grin. nicest part for me is cook,deliever,get the money and no people hassales

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