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<blockquote data-quote="SteveHants" data-source="post: 9098457" data-attributes="member: 3380"><p>I've done both farming and selling food that we produced, although it was pre 2008 financial crash. Most of my part time jobs when I was a kid/student were in pro kitchens (hotels and pubs, mostly)</p><p>We never did much out of the farm shop, because it was pretty out of the way, did much better when we took the food to people, ie farmer's markets. </p><p></p><p>Adding value is always going to be key for any of this, in my view - its hard to do that with veg, so you need value added products alongside with a greater margin. We ran a smokery, to that end. </p><p>If I was going to run a catering business now, I'd make pizza, seems like an absolute no brainer to me. You need only one type of cooking implement (an oven and pizza shovel), they cost pennies in ingredients (dough, a scraping of tomato sauce and scattering of toppings), with the right prep you can make one in under 10 minutes, cook several at once and flog a ready to eat, family size pizza for almost £15 in most places.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SteveHants, post: 9098457, member: 3380"] I've done both farming and selling food that we produced, although it was pre 2008 financial crash. Most of my part time jobs when I was a kid/student were in pro kitchens (hotels and pubs, mostly) We never did much out of the farm shop, because it was pretty out of the way, did much better when we took the food to people, ie farmer's markets. Adding value is always going to be key for any of this, in my view - its hard to do that with veg, so you need value added products alongside with a greater margin. We ran a smokery, to that end. If I was going to run a catering business now, I'd make pizza, seems like an absolute no brainer to me. You need only one type of cooking implement (an oven and pizza shovel), they cost pennies in ingredients (dough, a scraping of tomato sauce and scattering of toppings), with the right prep you can make one in under 10 minutes, cook several at once and flog a ready to eat, family size pizza for almost £15 in most places. [/QUOTE]
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