How to Guide: Printing Labels for Your Food Business
In June 2010, I produced my first large run with a co-packer. It went smoothly until I determined the net weight on my labels was not the actual net weight of what was in the jar. Fail. That's what inspired me to write today's post -- all about food labeling [...]
How to Make a Sell Sheet for Your Food Business
Want to impress buyers and land more retail accounts? Ding-ding-ding! Every food business wants to do that. And it starts with sell sheets. Sell sheets are the advertising of the specialty food industry. They show off your product, provide ordering information, and often are the first thing to cross a [...]
25-Step Plan to Make Your Food Company a Reality
Your 25 Step Plan to Starting a Food Business. A lot of wanna-be food entrepreneurs sit at their kitchen table with their head in their hands wondering what to do next. Where do they start? What about finding kitchen space? Recipe approval? A logo? Man, there's a lot. [...]
37 Remarkable Sushi Industry Statistics and Consumer Trends
Sushi is a Japanese food that has been enjoyed by 62% Americans. According to a survey conducted by Pei Wei, more than half of the people in the United States that haven't tried sushi yet would be willing to give it if the opportunity presented itself. Sushi is one of [...]
43 Breakthrough Kombucha Facts and Industry Statistics
In the mid-1990s, a 15-year-old George Thomas Dave was intently fermenting bacteria to brew his own Kombucha in his childhood home. Dave didn't know at the time, but this beverage would sharply increase in consumer demand over the next two decades and turn him into an entreprenuer. Now 42, Dave [...]
How to Run Social Media Ads for Restaurants in 2020
This is an emergency podcast episode for restaurant owners that need more customers right now. In these challenging times, people are staying at home, watching Netflix, and spending even more time on their phones than ever before. Much this is being spent scrolling through Facebook and Instagram feeds. Is [...]