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How to Start a Food Business: Writing a Business Plan

Soohyoun Ahn, Alison O'Donoughue, Lisa House, and Renée Goodrich-Schneider


Release Date: 8/22/2021

Reviewed At: 9/4/2024

DOI: 10.32473/edis-fs259-2014

Agriculture

Abstract

This factsheet is one in a "Food Entrepreneurship in Florida" series that assists beginning and established food entrepreneurs by providing them information on topics highly relevant to starting and running a food business: regulations, safety, labeling, processing, and marketing. This series serves as a useful guide to help make a business plan and determine the feasibility of starting a food business.

About this Publication

This document is FSHN14-12, one of a Food Entrepreneurship in Florida series of the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, UF/IFAS Extension. Original publication date December 2014. Revised October 2017 and May 2021. Visit the EDIS website at https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu for the currently supported version of this publication.

About the Authors

Soohyoun Ahn, lecturer; Alison O'Donoughue, Extension program assistant; Lisa House, professor, Department of Food and Resource Economics; and Renée Goodrich-Schneider, professor, Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition; UF/IFAS Extension, Gainesville, FL 32611.

How to Cite

Ahn, S., House, L., & Goodrich-Schneider, R. (2014). How to Start a Food Business: Writing a Business Plan. EDIS, 2014(10). https://doi.org/10.32473/edis-fs259-2014

Authors

Soohyoun Ahn
Soohyoun Ahn
Specialist
University of Florida

senior lecturer, food safety, UF/IFAS Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition

Lisa House
Lisa House
Specialist
University of Florida

professor, market research, and department chair, Department of Food and Resource Economics, Gainesville, FL

Renée Goodrich-Schneider
Renée Goodrich-Schneider
Specialist
University of Florida

professor, food science, and chair, UF/IFAS Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, Gainesville, FL

Publication #FSHN14-12