How to Start a Food Business: Introduction

Soohyoun Ahn, Alison O'Donoughue, Renée Goodrich-Schneider, and Amarat H. Simonne

Release Date: 5/28/2025

Family and Consumer Sciences

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 FS254, one of a Food Entrepreneurship in Florida series of the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, UF/IFAS Extension. Original publication date September 2014. Revised October 2017, May 2021, and November 2024. Visit the EDIS website at https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu for the currently supported version of this publication.

About the Authors

Soohyoun Ahn, instructional assistant professor; Alison O'Donoughue, former Extension program assistant; Renée Goodrich-Schneider, professor, Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition; and Amarat H. Simonne, professor, Department of Family, Youth and Community Sciences; UF/IFAS Extension, Gainesville, FL 32611.