Food & beverage
Home Bakery / Cottage Food
Allowed foods, labeling, sales channels, local confirmation, kitchen boundaries, batch records, pricing, markets, and wholesale limits.
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Food & beverage business guides
Compare the work, customers, operating requirements, and documents behind each business. Choose the model you can credibly deliver before choosing equipment or branding.
Food & beverage
Vending Machine Business
Placement, product, food, tax, host-contract, route, cash, and machine economics across all 56 jurisdictions.
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Food Truck and Mobile Food Business
Build a mobile kitchen around a menu, an approved operating base and locations where you can legally sell.
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Restaurant
Open a restaurant around a menu, a permitted location and a service system that can safely repeat every day.
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Catering Business
Prepare and deliver food for defined groups using an approved kitchen and controlled offsite service.
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Two businesses in the same category can have very different labor needs, collection times, licensing burdens, and repeat-customer patterns. Use the business viability worksheet to compare your own assumptions.