The trader Bevin and the shopkeeper Kumi, from two widely separated and very different lands, become partners and embark on a career of adventure and friendship.

The Best Trade of All

Bourque, Nina

Children's Books

Carnival Press

You want to operate a food booth but don’t know how. Finally, the food concession business made clear. Like sitting at the kitchen table with your personal concession consultant, this book will let you in on all the inside secrets.

Food Booth: The Complete Guide to Starting and Operating a Food Concession Business

Barbara J Fitzgerald

You want to operate a food booth but don’t know how. Finally, the food concession business made clear. Like sitting at the kitchen table with your personal concession consultant, this book will let you in on all the inside secrets. A detailed analysis of what the business entails, and what you can reasonably expect to get out of it. Creative ways to examine and define your personal oncession goals. An in-depth discussion how to estimate the risks and rewards. Learn how to thoroughly weigh the pros and cons when designing your booth and menu. Complete step-by step guidance on locating, analyzing, and getting your toe in the door when scheduling events. Secret tips for management and operational procedures. Proven inside tricks for outselling the competition. Additional handy checklists, sample event and permit applications, operational forms and a planning guide to keep you on track. Whether you want to earn some quick cash or entirely replace an existing income, this one of a kind resource provides a comprehensive and honest step by-step approach to starting and operating a successful mobile food concession business.

Have you ever dreamed of being your own boss? Of starting your own business? Of securing a cash income or enjoying the tax advantages of being self-employed? Food Booth, The Entrepreneur s Complete Guide to the Food Concession Business is not another get-rich-quick-with-no-money-down fantasy. It is a serious book for those who need complete and in-depth guidance about how to start and operate a food concession business. Whether your goal is financial independence or to earn extra cash on the side, this book will take you step-by-step through the start-up process, and help you avoid the common errors made by novices. Each step is thoroughly addressed by an expert with more than twenty years of experience in the business. It is the most in-depth and complete guide to starting and successfully operating a concession business available anywhere. Throughout, the author spells out the many planning and design decisions the reader will encounter and then outlines the pros and cons of each option. The first two sections of the book focus on a description of what the business entails and what you can reasonably expect to get out of it. And on planning your business, including the design of your booth, equipment, and menu. It covers such topics as defining your goals, developing a good business plan to achieve those goals, creating a unique business identity, licensing and insurance, planning a menu, selecting the right type of booth, travel issues, and budgeting. The remaining two sections provide an overview of events and how to pull everything together. Specific topics include how to locate, analyze for profitability, and procure contracts when scheduling events, how to handle cash, optimizing booth location, understanding set-up and operational procedures, managing employees, surviving health department inspections, successful marketing in the unique environment of the midway, and record keeping. Appendices include sample event applications, health permit license applications, and business forms, as well as a planning guide and a list of helpful online references. Numerous black-and-white photographs illustrate specific points. A one-of-a-kind resource, Food Booth is your road map to success in the food concession industry. No one considering starting a concession business can afford to be without it.

Food Booth, The Entrepreneur's Complete Guide to the Food Concession Business

Barb Fitzgerald

Food Booth, The Entrepreneur's Complete Guide to the Food Concession Business, Expanded 2nd Edition, is a step-by-step "how-to" guide to designing, managing, and operating a successful mobile food business. Based directly on the author's twenty-six years of experience, Food Booth is a rare insight into this refreshingly unconventional yet surprisingly lucrative field of food service. Comprehensive in scope, it provides in-depth, no-nonsense information on how to start your food concession business from the ground up, how to find and establish a location or events, and how to manage your business to reach your sales potential quickly, compounding your sales year after year. Whereas most business start-up books only tell readers "what to do" Food Booth also addresses the "how" and the "why". Chapters include virtually every aspect of planning, designing, and acquiring the booth and equipment, establishing a lucrative menu, plus licensing, scheduling events, and the day to day overall operational procedures. Far more than just a book about the start-up process, Food Booth also features an entire chapter on developing the crucial "marketing on the midway mindset" that most concessionaires lack. There are photos and images galore to illustrate various points and an appendix of example operational forms. Food Booth raises the bar on the food concession industry and gives the reader a "leg up" so that as a concessionaire they don't needlessly sabotage them self on the otherwise steep learning curve. The author draws on her long experience in the business where she additionally held a position on the Oregon Food Services Advisory Board, and founded Northwest Vendor's Network Association. She is a concessions development, management, and marketing expert and has served as consultant to many concession start-ups and event organizers.

Food Booth The Entrepreneur's Complete Guide to the Food Concession Business

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Krewe: The Early New Orleans Carnival Comus to Zulu

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The Best Trade of All

Food Booth: The Complete Guide to Starting and Operating a Food Concession Business

Food Booth: The Complete Guide to Starting and Operating a Food Concession Business

Food Booth, The Entrepreneur's Complete Guide to the Food Concession Business

Food Booth The Entrepreneur's Complete Guide to the Food Concession Business

Krewe: The Early New Orleans Carnival Comus to Zulu