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How to Get Started with your Idea for a Food Business

1/28/2019

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How to Get Started with your Idea for a Food Business
The  holidays  are  over,  and  as  we reflect  on  the  weight  gain, credit card  debt, and  family  get togethers, one thing may be sticking   out   in   your  head.  At  least everyone  loved  my  recipe for  “fill  in  the  blank.”

Maybe  you  are  thinking   that   you   should  take your recipe that  your  family  and friends adored so much  and  do  something with it, like turn it  into  a  business  or  a side hustle right?

Well, let’s take a closer look at all that is involved to take your idea for a food business and make it a reality.


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Small Potatoes

12/3/2018

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Martin Butts
Martin Butts was burned out after seven years working long hours in the cramped and bustling aisles of the Syracuse Cooperative Market.

He was passionate about working with small scale and local food producers, but unsure about how to continue that work when he left. A chance encounter with a vendor from his time at the co-op in 2009 flipped a light switch and in a matter of days, Small Potatoes went live.


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Eva's European Sweets

10/30/2018

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Eva's European Sweets
Eva Zaczynski had absolutely no experience running a restaurant when she first opened Eva’s European Sweets in in 1997.

She picked a red brick building on Milton Avenue, just west of Syracuse, because she could afford the rent.  As word got out in those pre-internet days, the staff kept written directions by the phone to help lost diners when they called.


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Sunswick Farm Honey

9/4/2018

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Sunswick Farm Honey Owner Brooks Mullahy
Brooks Mullahy started beekeeping in 1984 as a backyard beekeeper in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with only 2 hives.

Life took many turns from there, including a 13-year stint in East Africa working in International Aid and Development. Upon returning to the United States in 2012, she embarked on an apprenticeship with a master beekeeper in Moravia, New York. After 4 years as an apprentice, Mary set out on her own to turn beekeeping into her livelihood and Sunswick Farm began to take form.



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Focus on your Customer Service and Overall Presentation

3/26/2018

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Focus on your Customer Service and Overall Presentation
Any business must make it a priority to focus on providing excellent customer service, along with an appealing presentation.

Several years ago, I remember sitting in a sales seminar and the speaker was making a point about the importance of presentation.  He painted a vivid picture with his words, describing a favorite meal being served at a fine restaurant. He then told the class to imagine the waiter serving this fabulous meal on a garbage-can lid.  Anyone hungry?


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