Street Food Soliloquy: Starting and Running a UK Street Food Business

A new and totally revamped edition of the thoroughly successful start up guide. It's already helped thousands of aspiring street food traders swim through the paperwork, navigate the legalities and dodge the common mistakes. The author talks you through the whole process using concrete examples and stories from when their business was just starting out.This is the book you need to read to have the confidence, know-how and inside knowledge to make your street food business a success, first time.Topics covered include: Skills and qualifications needed (spoiler: anyone can do this!) , health and safety, choosing business structures, going full time, branding and social media, methods of trading, how to apply for and secure events, making those events profitable and how to make long term money out of street food. Along with tons of other useful advice that doesn't fit into the categories above - ever wondered what the number of loos can tell you about a festival? Now that the first wave of street food madness has settled there has never been a better time to start out. There is unprecedented demand for street food, and all you need to do is get out there and sell it. Many of the original traders have moved on into restaurants or are now running their own festivals, leaving a gap in the market that is just the perfect shape for that idea you were considering last time your day job really started to grate.