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How to start a home-based bakery business

Call Number

  • 641.815 D2616 (CEN)

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Edition

1st ed.

Publication Information

Guilford, Conn. : Globe Pequot Press, c2011.

Physical Description

viii, 181 p. ; 24 cm.

Summary

Veteran cook and caterer Detra Denay Davis provides all the tools and success strategies you need to launch and grow your home-based bakery business. She shares her experiences and advice on making sense of local, state, and federal rules and regulations; structuring your business; developing a product line; packaging, labeling, and marketing products; and learning how to become and stay profitable. --Back cover.

Contents

  • So you want to start a home-based bakery?
  • Setting up your home bakery business
  • Getting started
  • Starting a legitimate home-based baking business
  • Pricing your products
  • Marketing your home bakery business
  • Bookkeeping and management
  • Ready, set, bake!
  • Selling your products online
  • Interviews with home-based bakers
  • Appendix A: my top home bakery products
  • Appendix B: resources.