There are
many stay at home business opportunities and one that receives a lot of attention
is catering. Starting a catering business at home can be an extremely lucrative
business. In America alone the catering
business accounts for $5 billion in annual revenue each year. However, there are a number of advantages and disadvantages of catering business work at home opportunities and those are discussed here.
Anyone that loves
to prepare food and enjoys food for parties, weddings and other events will be
attracted to this wonderful business. There are several pros and cons to
starting a home based catering business.
As a
professional caterer there are numerous opportunities for work at home entrepreneurs.
Some home based caterers will start out small in their own kitchens with a
handful of clients which will keep your initial costs very low and your prices
will reflect this to begin to attract more clients.
However, be
careful of beginning a home based catering business. Many states have passed
laws making it illegal to sell food prepared in your kitchen or a permit for
hundreds of dollars will need to be purchased each time you cater an event. Some
communities have combating many of these obstacles by renting a shared space
for commercial kitchens or use your local church kitchen. You can install a
commercial kitchen in your home. Though, for many starting out in the business
this move is not very cost effective. There are several advantages and
disadvantages to this vehicle of making income for a home based business.
Advantages of
catering
·
Doing
something you love if you enjoy working with food, cooking for events and are a
very social person is the ideal personality for a home catering business.
·
Earnings
are extremely great for the at home catering business. Many home based caterings are
earning six figures in a couple of years in a nice sized community
·
Meeting
new people and going to great events
·
Recognition
is wonderful in this line of business and the network of people in the niche is
terrific
·
This
is a job you can do full time or part time as your schedule fits
Disadvantages
of catering
·
Can
be very stressful work meeting deadlines for catering business clients.
·
Many
people are catering for events where clients are stressed for everything to be
perfect. These include bar mitzvahs and weddings. They may hover, scream, cry
and show a lot of anxiety.
·
You
do a lot of the work yourself. You do the cooking, cleaning, billing and getting
the food to the event working your catering business from home.
·
You
need to be able to handle crisis as they happen. No event goes off without a
hitch. It may be a thunderstorm that day and you need to move the three foot
cake to the church with hail coming down and expect it to look perfect. Can you
handle putting fires out each event?
Catering can
be a very lucrative business from your home and is a great way to spend your time working from
home if you enjoy it.
