I've been told my baking is good enough to sell for money, but I've never started a business in my life. How should I go about it?
>>625130101. Find a small tourist town in Europe with one bakery owned by an old person (there are many)2. Take it over
>>62513010You'd be competing against housewives whose husbands started them a bakery just to give them something to do during the day and don't ned to make a profit.
>>62513047Please shut up naysayer>>62513010Godspeed baker anon
>>62513010first try making some /smg/ threads
If you do any food service or retail food job, know that you're competing directly against unlicensed slop sellers. Basically if you're White you're forced to be regulated by the health department, if you're brown its your culture to not wash your hands before cooking. However, I think in some areas you can sell shit like bread you bake at home at farmers markets without being licensed.
Goto Facebook and find local communities, goto swapmeets, fairs, local events or whatever.
>>62513152You think starting out at like a farmer's market or something would be wise?
>>62513010go manage someone else's bakery for a year. It will likely go under because of you. Go manage a different bakery for a year. It will also go under. Go manage a cafe for a year. It won't go under but you'll learn why your two bakeries failed. Then go manage another bakery for 7 years. If it remains profitable for all 7 years you're running it, then start a business.because baking good food isn't the reason businesses succeed or fail. You won't even be doing the baking anyways.
>>62513010also those are just standard compliments>Damn bubba, your bbq/bread/cake/brisket is GOOD ENOUGH TO SELL!!!that's just shit dumbass southerners tell each other. Everyone in the South makes amazing food. That's not enough to start a successful business. All it means is you're competing with literally millions of your neighbors who also make amazing food
>>62513010but for actual advice what you do (in no particular order):get a business licenseget liability insurance for a restaurantlease or build a restaurant (this is the hard part)lease or buy equipmenttake a food safety classtake an OSHA compliance classtake a labor law compliance classHire some peoplebuy workmans' comp for your peopleregister a EIN with the IRSstart sending in payroll and income taxesOptionally you might incorporate as an LLCGet utilities and phones hooked up in business nameadvertise locally start making foodhopefully people buy it
>>62515529most US restaurants are skipping a lot of this lately by employing people as "contractors."this saves a ton on insurance, workman's comp, and taxeshowever it's also illegal and they're just waiting to get busted. Which doesn't happen because Trump keeps cutting IRS budgets and staffingbut eventually trump will likely go away and then those restaurants will probably get shut down and their owners shipped off to jail.
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>>625130101. Decide on your pricing model and what you're selling2. Bake examples and get good pictures3. Buy a domain, make a website, put prices and pictures up4. Make business cards with qr codes linking back to the website and agree to leave them at local businesses (maybe give them some freebies in exchange, offices etc may eat that up, be wary of common allergies and make sure you state the ingredients clearly so you don't get sued)5. Market your services in other ways that you can think of6. Await orders7. Bake cakesGood luck anon
>>62515529Why does he need a restaurant, just take home orders for a while and if it takes off then he can worry about a premises
>>62513010Anon, you shoudl start small as anyone. First try to sell to some friends, try to engage with friends of oyour friends and so on, things will eventually organically expand.I'm telling this because this is pretty much how my brother did, he sells cookies and he's doing pretty well. He was also elected the 5th best cookie in the city (it's a major one, >10M habitants). It's a hard path and requires resilience, once you are on a level to escalate, all the bureaucracy will sort out.
>>62515534considering how crowded US prisons are, i highly doubt you will end up in jail for having shortcut few of the bazillons of boomers' gate keeping (((rules))). Unless they want like half of tiny entrepreneurs behind bars.
>>62513010don't do it ...running a business has nothing in common with passion baking. good way to waste a lot of time, money and destroy a hobby you enjoy. don't fucking do it
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>>62515827>don't do it ...running a business has nothing in common with passion baking. good way to waste a lot of time, money and destroy a hobby you enjoy. don't fucking do itIf you think you would enjoy baking 40 hours a week + doing 15 hours on business work then it's worth it. I make beer as a hobby. It's fun and i'm actually really good at it. But i'd be absolutely sick of it if I had to do it every day. I also do gamedev but that is different where I'm eager to spent almost all of my free time to do it and have basically been doing that since covid. You have to want to do it every single day to turn a hobby into a business. But even then, you really want to make sure that you can make money in a way that you find enjoyable before taking the jump.
>>62515583depends where OP is located. Some places allow cooking in your home to sell. Lots of places don't.>>62515788Yeah depends how egregious the tax evasion is and how motivated the IRS gets. It's felony tax fraud but that's not necessarily prison the first time around
>>62513010If you're going to source your ingredients from Walmart you're not going to last very long.Your biggest expense starting out is going to be your ingredients and your payment processor fees (Square). When you're small, you'll be able to get away with using brown paper bags or plastic shopping bags.
>>62513140Farmers markets is the white washed version of a swap meet. Good luck competing with housewives with endless sugar daddy bucks.
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>>62513010>open github account>AI a website about your product>EmailJS so it emails you about orders from your website form>BuyDomain, host on github pages with that domain (Domain cost $, but hosting free)>convert domain URL into QR code, put it on business cards.>pass out business cards, post online at social media sites (make accounts for business)>process orders as they come in>???????????>PROFIT$$$!$!$!$$1
>>62515529this guy doesnt know how to run a business. Governments enforce regulation to take a cut. You get 2 years before youre supposed to "report". >70% of taxes were confirmed going towards corrupt causes and not what they were supposed to from DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency)Gee, i wonder why they got nuked so fast>Paying taxes contributes to wars in the middle eastYeah I think you should just focus on getting your business model profittable before even thinking of "becoming legit". Reality is an IQ test after all and they expect you to do ALL the work so you can PAY them? Think about that one lmao
