HBMTN
is One Chatty Farker
Just throwing this out there to see if there would be interest in taking a class on opening a barbecue business? Primarily a catering and concessions start up and not for a restaurant. Thinking the class would be designed for those who know how to cook and have developed those skills and recipes and are now entertaining the though starting a small part or full time barbecue business. Maybe even you've already started one but things aren't going the way you would like. The goal of the class would be to straighten the learning curve of those first 3-5 years of opening a business so you're not paying for the learning curve through wasted experiments along the way and hit the ground running instead of crawling. We possibly teach things like forming a business, purchasing the necessary equipment, all aspects of catering and concessions, staffing, advertising, pricing, profit structure, food quantities and much more. A weekend class with a price point around $750pp. I strongly believe I could save a person starting a small catering business at least double (probably way more) the class price before they even opened the doors and they would hit the ground 2-4 years ahead of someone opening a barbecue business on their own with trial and error, saving and making you way more money over 5 years. A class would take place here in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia and would perhaps run a Friday-Sunday and include a few meals. A little background on me. I opened a catering and concessions business in 2010 and have had a 20-40% annual growth rate every year since opening and a 80% growth rate last year growing the business to 6 figure annual sales all while working another job in additional to running the catering business. I had no never worked in the food industry prior to opening the business. I had a competition barbecue team and it started from there.
