How Do You Start A Food Concession Stand?

Many of us have the dream and desire to be our own boss. One of the few small businesses left that has lower start up costs and is fully achievable is the food concession business. The purpose of this guide is to show where you where you can find the information you need to the right decisions about going into the Food stand business.  Can you Make $50,000, $100,00? Yes You can but you can also lose your shirt if you make unwise decisions and do not go about doing your start-up with purpose and a good idea and business plan.

Starting any business means stepping out of your comfort zone and take a risk.  A brick and mortar business like MC Donalds, can run $500,000 and probably more to  open the doors.  A food concession stand can be done for considerable less. Een $500 to $750 .  I started 17 years ago on less than $5,000.  Reality is, I mad it with some metering and  hard work.  No one can write a guide like we have without extensive of experience and we ahve seen it all! 

Our Book, which you can find right here at our eBay Store  Rob's Famous Shoppe provides you with all the information you need to know about this business.  We have read all the books the subject on Ebay and we found only two were worthy of our money. One cost $29.95 the Others ran around $34 .  SO we wrote one and have sold over 1,050 copies of it at $19.95 and it  has gotten great reviews. It is currently the top selling on this business on eBay we are told.   Quite frankly, we felt  almost all the phaplets and so called books were disappointing as they didn't tell the WHOLE TRUTH.  They portrayed only the good, or as we call it the "cotton candy!"  Not the bad and ugly side or what I call the "grease and the graywater."  All the other  books over simplified it in  just few pages and were not worth even reading.  So we will tell you all we  know based on 18 years in this business, the good , the bad and the ugly and while we can't tell it all in this 2.000 word guide, we do tell you much more in  our 311 page book we market on eBay. Rob's Famous Shoppe

But in fairness to all you can also surf and take a look at the others too Concession search on eBay

The purpose of our guide is to give you a complete and honest insight into the Food Concession business.

We designed a comprehensive guide with pictures and diagrams, even sample business plans designed to give you all the information you need to have to make a decision on investment of tiem, talent and money to get started.

In sharing our personal experience you can decide and answer the following questions.

1. Is this business for me?

2. If it is , where do I start?

What is the level of Investment in terms of money, time and talent required?

4. What kind of hidden expenses will I encounter.

5.What types of mobile foods stands are there?

6.What areas of leagalese, insurance, health food codes. electric and motor vehicle alws, not to mention food handlling saftey to  I need to follow legally and ehtically.

This guide will lead you to the water, but you must decdie if you want to drink and go for it.

Quite frankly if you decide to go into the food conession business without this infomration or proper mentoring you are downright foolish in our humble opinion.  We will tell you how many we have seen make it and how many fail. We will guide you with personal consulation if you so desire.

Fact: The Food concessison business  is pure retailing. Open a storefront and/or produce an inventory of products for resale at the lowest possilbe price. Set prices that will be competitive and find ways to control your expenses (Overhead) in an efficeint manner. Hopefully you will have a profit!

ABOVE: One of my stores Open for business. Note the white color, the readable colorful signs and colors. Flash is cash!

Another thing is we beleive eBay is great place, but auction fraud is fairly common. We have found over a thousand fraud conession trailer auctions on eBay over the years and we report them.  Everyone we reported eBay has investigated and pulled off.  IN our book we devote a whole chapter on how to spot such scam auctions.

Also don't sucker for someone trying to sell you a franchaise or a concept in this business. They don't exist.  I have not found one at least.  You can find "turn Key Operations", but a true franchise such as  MC D's or Burger King, do not exsit in the food concesison business. It is truly an independent place for the entrepureur.

So if you want to know the complete secrets of the food concession business  you'll find it with us.

Visit our eBay Store  Rob's Famous Shoppe