One of the promising types of entrepreneurial activity is the organization of food delivery to cafes and restaurants. The survival of catering enterprises depends primarily on the quality of the dishes they offer to their visitors. Therefore, in the fight against competitors, many restaurateurs are betting and advertising environmental friendliness and freshness of raw materials. They want products that cannot be bought in a regular store.
Instructions
Step 1
If you decide to arrange grocery delivery to restaurants, start by writing a business plan. From the outset, you must understand that your company will not only transport food, but also guarantee the quality and freshness of everything that will be offered to restaurateurs.
Step 2
Accordingly, you will need a special transport equipped with refrigeration units, in which the products will remain fresh for a long time during transportation. In addition, conventional vehicles will be needed to transport canned and non-perishable foodstuffs.
Step 3
Consider buying or renting a food storage facility that should also include refrigerators. This will allow you to always have a small stock or keep the products in case of farce-majeure circumstances, as well as if the customer refuses to supply.
Step 4
Contact the restaurant owners in your city. Sign a supply agreement. Find out their need for products: quantity, assortment. Talk to them about quality control and product acceptance. Do not insist on large orders right away, your task is to establish yourself as a reliable partner.
Step 5
Visit the nearest agricultural and peasant farms. Agree on cooperation, conclude contracts for the supply of vegetables, meat, milk, poultry and eggs. Find those specialty shops where you can buy exotic products: quality olive oil, good loose olives, anchovies, capers, convenience foods for making today's fashionable Japanese cuisine. To complete orders, you can start cooperating with several wholesalers or large chain stores such as METRO Cash & Carry.
Step 6
Order and keep up to date your own website. Ideally, of course, you need IT technologies that integrate an online store, a system for processing orders and purchasing products, warehousing and order picking, and transport management into a single information space. But this is a matter for the future. Get started and remember that a long journey begins with a small step.
