WAH -- cooking??

lovingthem · **WAH -- cooking??**

if any ladies know how to cook GOOD food...perhaps being a caterer would be a good WAH job for you!

my friend caters part time on weekends...she just made up some business cards, registered her business name, put an ad in the paper and listed her business in the yellow pages...and she makes EXCELLENT money cooking food!

she did a 1600.00 baby shower for 30 guests, and a 400.00 cookout where all she did was supply the meat and salads! as a side bonus, and to keep her customers, they come back after the meal is done and clean up the eating area! she said THAT extra work is what KEEPS people coming back, because they know that they can get a free cleanup after the meal! it is her and her daughter who run the service singlehandedly...and her husband and her are going on a vacation to the carribean for two weeks soley on the profits of her SIDE business.

my father's church also does dinners. they sell each dinner for 6.00, and it includes a soda and your choice of bread, cake, or cornbread. i know for a FACT that 300.00 worth of groceries landed them over 2,000.00 in dinner sales that day! i know because i helped purchase the food!

the items they sell are very basic...they do fried fish, a green of some sort *usually collards or string beans*, a potato salad or cole slaw, and french fries or macaroni and cheese.

my ex'es mother cooks for weddings. she doesn't do it often, but to make 500-1000.00 per wedding...is worth it! she starts cooking about 2 days before the big day and she and her daughter and neices also play the role of caterer!

i cannot cook large amounts very well, but my sister can. i wanted to go into a lunch service...where we cook and deliver meals to people at work (all they would have to do is call our number and place an order and give us a callback number and address), but my sister was never committed so it flunked

before it really got off. i thought that would be a good idea...keep the prices cheap and do it perhaps only on certain days...

just thought i'd throw some ideas out there for us moms who are kitchen saavy (which i SO am not!).

ruthie · 06-24-2008, 05:01 PM

You can make good money with a catering service, but be careful because in my state I had to purchase a business license and also a state license. Then I had to have my kitchen inspected by the health department. There was a lot more "red tape" to it.

And since I had to purchase a business license, i also had to keep up with the sales tax to the state and county.