An excellent option for starting your own business would be trading in bread and bakery products. As you know, bread belongs to essential products, and its production will always be in demand. And this fact provides a permanent job for a budding entrepreneur.
In the future, in the future, it will be possible to cooperate with many suppliers, to create. But first you need to decide on an action plan, on the implementation of a business plan for organizing the opening of a bread kiosk. So how do you open a bread kiosk yourself?
Stages of opening a bread kiosk
- Obtaining permission to trade.
- Choosing a place to trade.
- Choosing a direction for trade in bakery products.
- Purchase of the necessary equipment.
- Cooperation with suppliers.
- Search for sellers.
- Calculation of investments and expected profits.
Necessary Steps to Obtain a Business Permit
Before the kiosk starts working, it will be necessary to settle some issues with local authorities, namely:
1. Find out where you are entitled to the location of the outlet in accordance with applicable legal rules.
2. Check the selected kiosk location with the local department of urban planning and architecture.
3. Obtain permission from the fire department and the trade department.
Also, in order to conduct business, it will be necessary to register with the Federal Tax Service and obtain a sanitary and epidemiological conclusion from the Rospotrebnadzor authorities.
You may need to conclude contracts for the disposal of mercury lamps and for garbage disposal.
Registration of individual entrepreneurs(procedure established by law).
Issuance of a sanitary and epidemiological conclusion(order and required documents).
Choosing a place to trade
Bread is bought both in the daytime and in the evening, especially when returning home after a working day. Therefore, the best option for the location of the kiosk would be a sleeping area with constant traffic of people.
Also, a good choice for installing a kiosk would be an area close to public transport stops and markets. The more people pass by the bread kiosk, the higher the likelihood of an increase in revenue from the products sold.
As for the purchase of a kiosk, at first it will be possible to buy a used stall, for example, if you find an owner who closes his own outlet. In this case, you may have to pay all costs for dismantling and transportation.
If the financial situation allows, then a new kiosk can be purchased.
The approximate area of the kiosk is 12 m 2.
Line of activity of the bread kiosk
When organizing the activities of a bread kiosk, as a business, it will be necessary to determine the direction of trade. It might just be breadstall, in which bakery trade will be conducted and either a kiosk not only with sale, but also with production, like a mini-bakery.
The first option will be less costly, but, perhaps, there will be problems with the sale of the entire volume of products, because no one will buy stale bread anymore.
The second option allows you to control the production process, and it is much more profitable than the first, since freshly baked bread is expensive. But this direction requires more significant financial costs.
Required equipment for a bread kiosk
Naturally, equipment will be needed for the operation of the bread kiosk. It can be the most common one - it is several shelves and wooden trays.
It will definitely be necessary to install a fire alarm.
An important condition for the operation of the bread kiosk will be the purchase of a cash register with its subsequent registration with the tax authorities (if you are), and the conclusion of a service agreement.
Work with providers
After completing all the necessary documents and purchasing equipment, you can start. It is worth considering that suppliers do not directly cooperate with retail outlets, but wholesale to firms, and they themselves deliver the goods.
It is very convenient to work with wholesale companies, as they independently organize the delivery of bread from bakeries and the factory, which greatly facilitates the work of the outlet.
Bread stall assortment
The markup on bread products is strictly controlled by the authorities (cannot be higher than 15%) because bread is one of the essential products.
Therefore, it will be necessary to expand the range of products sold and "dilute" trade in various confectionery (cakes, pastries, gingerbread, cookies, and even handmade sweets), drinks, pies, etc. For this type of goods, a margin can be set from 50%.
Such an approach to expanding the range of goods will only increase the flow of customers and, accordingly, will have a positive effect on the kiosk's profits. Of course, the main requirement for baking high quality remains.
In the future, it will be possible to open a small own bakery,combinedwith a bakery, as well as sell baked products at various retail outlets.
Find sellers for a kiosk
The ideal recruiting option for a bread kiosk is to hire salespeople based on recommendations from multiple employers. The main criteria for choosing a seller are accuracy, politeness and decency.
Such a seller is the key to the successful operation of a bread kiosk. To a good seller 30 thousand rubles per month.
Bread kiosk business plan
Start a business without financial investments almost impossible.
According to data for 2015, the following investments were needed to open a bread kiosk:
- purchase of a trade booth - from 150 thousand rubles. or rent - starting from 70 thousand rubles. per month;
- preparation of the kiosk for operation (internal repair work, installation of a billboard, etc.) will cost 60 thousand rubles;
- purchase of equipment - an average of 30 thousand rubles;
- - 15 thousand rubles;
- purchase of a thousand units of products - about 50 thousand rubles;
- for each seller - 20-30 thousand rubles. every month;
- purchase of additional products - an average of 30 thousand rubles;
- expenses for related needs - from 20 thousand rubles.
In total, the total amount of all expenses will be approximately 340 thousand rubles.
Savings options
Costs can be saved... For example, buy a used kiosk or pavilion.
Also, the amount of financial investments depends on the region and on the price of renting a kiosk, if you have not bought your own.
Entrepreneurs advise to rent a kiosk at the beginning of their careers, and only then, after the business goes up, buy a new one. Also, to save on financial investments will help purchase of goods taken for sale from a local bakery.
Income
The daily profit from the operation of the bread kiosk is 3-5 thousand rubles, it is easy to calculate the monthly income, which will amount to a month 90 – 150 thousand rubles. Consequently, the total costs will pay off within 3-4 months.
The nuances of running a bakery business
Today, and this is not news for a long time, the bakery market is oversaturated, almost at every corner you will find a point of sale selling bread and pastries. The competition is really quite tough, and one of the competitors is that have their own small bakery.
But this is not so bad. But the fact that many bakery companies have begun to organize their trading networks for the sale of bakery products and pastries is inevitable and will have to look for ways to deal with the main competitors.
The only solution in gaining the trust of buyers and increasing the reputation of the bread kiosk as a business is high service and excellent quality of the products offered.
In an amicable way, before carrying out all, you need to analyze and research the bakery market, study competitors in this industry, analyze their assortment and price level.
After analyzing the demand of buyers for the offered products, it will be necessary choose the right assortment of goods and adequately set prices for it.
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