Postal Letter

I was thinking about starting a business delivery sandwiches?

to offices for lunch with salads, soup, cookies etc.. As a very small business. Is this a good idea? What advice can you give? It would cost people less than eating out.

Public Comments

1. try parking your car outside large corporations & as they come outside they can buy from you? paula deen started this way- she called it "the bag lady" i believe.
2. Check on health department requirements - there will be a lot of them if you are making food for sale.
3. nah deliver donoughts
4. Sounds like a good idea. You would either need to rent space in a commercial kitchen or have whatever kitchen you worked out of certified safe from the health department. Try checking where you live to see if there's a small business development center that can help with advice. The other option would be the purchase of a food vending truck. Again, there are health code requirements, but you're mobile and a self-contained kitchen. Good luck!
5. I think it's a great idea as long as your food is good, and affordable. Of course that is important to everyone right now, and they could be your big pitch to office workers. Think ahead though and make sure you have all the details down. What's going to make your business stand out among the other similar businesses? If your going to get ahead by having excellent customer service, make sure you really do. i.e. Don't forget napkins and utensils etc. I personally like the idea. Some days at work you just want a really good sandwich or a nice hot cup of soup on a cold day, and not every place has what you're looking for. I'd much rather support someone like you than say Wendy's for a cup of chili. Think things through though and Good Luck!
6. Try it. It sounds like fun!
7. Looked into this one time, it all fell to bits in the prelim stages. The local council was going to make my life hell as they wanted to specify every single location I was going to be able to stop the truck (unless it was on private land, and then there were entry and exit problems, and also product movement on land not zoned for it), but that was just paperwork problems. the main problem was going to be the time/cost to sales ratio. Simply being in a mobile business you have too much travel time between places of employment and you aren't getting paid for this time while you are still Paying for the petrol and the time and the vehicle etc. The way round it was to attack either large office blocks where you could hit 300 employees in one go, but these are very difficult to market to and often the building management won;t allow it because they'll have a contract with the food vendor in the basement or the lobby. OR.... you can hit the industrial areas!!! High level of income in these areas and usually only one or two really dodgy crap deep fried food vendors and not much else, also they're usually out of town so there's no alternative. If you can come to an agreement with just one property management you can leaflet drop the entire industrial estate and they'll come to you. For good quality healthy food there is always a lot of female employee's etc who want to eat good food in these places and they are NEVER catered to. Also a lot of tradesmen would like good food but they can't get it because the established food shops just sell deep fried rubbish "That's what real men eat!" but men are changing. So good luck, just do a lot of research!