How to Open a Financially Successful Bakery 2 Revised edition

Marc Notes: Topics covered include: learn how to draw up a winning business plan;how to buy and sell a bakery;basic cost-control systems;profitable product planning;sample floor plans & diagrams;successful kitchen management;equipment layout and planning;food safety & HACCP;sales and marketing techniques;pricing formulas. Publisher Marketing: According to a private research firm, bakeries are in the top ten of the fastest growing industries for small businesses in recent years. If you are interested in opening a bakery and becoming a small business owner, this book is for you. The small bakeries that are popping up everywhere in this country can be started with a low investment compared to other food business and can be highly profitable. Learn the expert tips crucial how-to information you can't find elsewhere. If you enjoy meeting people and love bakeries, this may be the perfect business for you. Here is the step-by-step manual you need to cash in on this segment of the food industry. The revised 2nd Edition of How to Open a Financially Successful Bakery is an updated, comprehensive, and detailed study of the business side of the bakeries. This is a perfect book for entrepreneurs, schools, colleges and technical training centers. This detailed text contains all the information you will ever need to start, operate, and manage a highly profitable bakery. While providing detailed instruction and examples, the authors lead you through finding a location that will bring success. Learn how to draw up a winning business plan, how to buy and sell a bakery, basic cost control systems, profitable product planning, equipment layout and planning, food safety and HACCP, successful food and beverage management, legal concerns, sales and marketing techniques, and pricing formulas. You will find out how to set up computer systems to save time and money, how to hire and keep a qualified professional staff, manage and train employees, generate high profile public relations and publicity. Learn low cost internal marketing ideas, low and no cost ways to satisfy customers and build sales. Discover how to keep bringing customers back, accounting and bookkeeping procedures, auditing, successful budgeting and profit planning development, and the most recent IRS tip reporting requirements. Filled with thousands of great tips and useful guidelines, never before has so much practical information about the bakery business been offered in one book. This is an ideal guide for newcomers to the business as well as experienced operators. In addition to basic operational practices this book will demonstrate how to: increase impulse sales and improve presentation, utilize merchandising fixtures and techniques, cross merchandise, point of purchase materials, and develop a product sampling program.