Weinberg - The everything guide to starting and running a catering business : insider advice on turning your talent into a lucrative career

Dear Reader,

You picked up this book, in all likelihood, because you love cooking for other s, and you dream about having your own business, perhaps leaving your current job. Everyone tells you that you should start your own catering business, but you're not quite sure what's involved and how you can make a living.

If this sounds about right, do yourself a favor and read on. This comprehensive guide for the beginning caterer who wants to gain a foothold and the established caterer who wants to grow, will let you know what's involved in starting and running a catering business. This book will tell you what skills you need, how to start a business, the biggest challenges you'll face, and new trends in catering.

One of the unique aspect s of this book is that it not only contains practical information about catering, but also critical tips on how to position, sell, and market yourself, so that you actually find and retain paying clients. This book will take you step by step through the entire process of living your catering dream.

This guide is the first valuable tool you'll need to become a catering entrepreneur. It lists many important resources and includes the actual experiences of successful caterers, and it will help you create a unique, viable business.

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Insider advice on turning your talent into a lucrative career

Joyce Weinberg

Avon, Massachusetts

Copyright 2007, F+W Publications, Inc.

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ISBN 10: 1-59869-384-0

ISBN 13: 978-1-59869-384-3

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J I H G F E D C B A

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Weinberg, Joyce.

Everything guide to starting and running a catering business / Joyce Weinberg.

p. cm.

ISBN-13: 978-1-59869-384-3 (pbk.)

ISBN-10: 1-59869-384-0 (pbk.)

1. Caterers and catering. I. Title.

TX921.W44 2007

642.4 dc22

2007015885

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