Learn all about how to start a home-based catering business from the owner of a successful catering enterprise. This edition includes an additional chapter of catering recipes, including five special occasion menus with 25 crowd-pleasing recipes.

How to Start a Home-Based Catering Business (Home-Based Business Series)

Business & Money

Denise Vivaldo

Business Development & Entrepreneurship

Globe Pequot

How to Start a Home-Based Catering Business, 4th (Home-Based Business Series)

Job Hunting & Careers

Many people can handle throwing a party for 8 or 10 people, but how many can successfully negotiate the trials of entertaining 25 or 50? Do It for Less! Parties has all the tools you need to plan efficiently and entertain flawlessly when cooking for a crowd. Packed with quantity recipes for 12, 25, 50, or 75 friends and family, this combination party cookbook, decorating guide, and entertaining primer shows today’s savvy hostess how to do it for less time and do it for less money without sacrificing one’s sanity or style. The first half of the book focuses on the logistics of quantity cooking. It’s brimming with estimating guides, catering resources, and conversion charts that are useful for the professional caterer and home entertainer alike. The second half provides nine complete menus with 65 twice-tested, quantity recipes. All the menus include complete shopping lists in each quantity, a menu countdown, decoration ideas, and specific tips for shaving costs, time, and stress from your preparation schedule.

Do It for Less! Parties: Tricks of the Trade from Professional Caterers' Kitchens

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Cindie Flannigan

Martha Hopkins

Andy Sheen-Turner

Entertaining & Holidays

Terrace Publishing

Weddings cost an average of $27,000 (2007 national average). Do-It-for-Less! Weddings is an answer to that nightmare (and pre-marital debt) - a practical guide for brides- and grooms-to-be, showing them how to design and plan a lavish wedding on a tight budget. The book addresses everything a novice wedding planner needs to know, including information and insider tips on master timelines, budgets, invitations, locations, catering, cakes, flowers, food preparation and recipes, and more. Vivaldo offers tried-and-true tricks of the catering and event-planning trades and shows readers how to save thousands of dollars while creating the wedding of their dreams.

Do It For Less! Weddings: How to Create Your Dream Wedding Without Breaking the Bank

Sellers Publishing

Reference

Sellers Publishing, Inc.

First 3 of 10 sections: So You Think You Want to Be a Caterer?; Working Out of your Home; Writing a Business Plan, or How to Avoid Financial Disaster ....

How to Open and Operate a Home-Based Catering Business

Globe Pequot Pr

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