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