To open your mini-sausage you will need: grill, bread warmer, trolley and kiosk. The following documents should hang on the window of the kiosk: certificate of registration of your enterprise, permission of the local head doctor of sanitary and epidemiological surveillance for the retail sale of products (sausages), a personal card of the seller, and sometimes permission to trade from the administration of the territory that you occupy.
In the licensing chamber you will be issued a license with the right to retail food. Manufacturers of meat products (sausages, sausages) must provide you with quality certificates for their products.
Room
The question of where you will trade hot dogs on the street or indoors you need to decide in advance. It depends on what equipment you will buy, what rent to pay. If you have chosen a kiosk, then the cost of a small metal, glazed tent is about 700 to 2, 000 USD or more. On average, it occupies 5-10 sq.m. If renting 1 sq.m is 50-200 USD per year, then 5-10 sq.m will cost you from 250 to 2 000 USD per year. Need furniture: a pair of chairs, a table, shelving. It is necessary to bring electricity.
If you decide to engage in trade on the street, then you will need 3-4 square meters, and rent will cost half as much. You will need an autonomous power supply if you cannot connect to the mains.
Grill selection
There is a great variety of equipment intended for catering services: lava grill, contact grill, roller grill, carousel type, deep fryer, steam ovens, etc. Grilled lava subtly imitates hot charcoal and is intended, rather, for cooking barbecue or portioned meat, rather than sausages. Carousel grills - for grilling chicken. The most popular hot dog sellers are roller grills, heating cabinets, as well as traditional types of heating equipment. All this is easy to place in a kiosk or on a mobile trolley.
When buying, you should pay attention to the capacity of the devices (the number of cooked sausages at a time), their power, weight and size. The equipment must be made of stainless steel or have a non-stick coating (chrome, teflon, silverstone, etc.), as well as a guarantee for equipment. And the acceptable goals and average characteristics of grills for your company are given in the tables:
Particular pride for manufacturers of commercial equipment are street shopping trolleys - real express cafes in the open. There are electric and gas mobile counters, which can be equipped with a canopy, a glass showcase, a compartment for a small refrigerator or any container, a washstand, drawers, pallets, shelves, etc., etc. Carts can be sold either separately or with all accessories. Characteristics of such counters are given in the table.
Thus, the minimum cost of equipment (grill or steam cabinet plus heater) is 400-900 USD. Maximum costs (express cafe with a full complement of everything you need) - up to 8 500 USD.
Advertising
You should never save on advertising, especially at the first time of its activity. It is worth hanging outdoor billboards with your advertising near the place where you work. You can also decorate a kiosk or mobile counter with the image of ready-made hot dogs, inscriptions that can attract the attention of customers. The cost of initial advertising is 150-200 USD.
The ingredients
Various seasonings (ketchup, mustard, mayonnaise), spices and additives in the form of cheese plates, slices of pickles, etc. not only improve the taste of the product, but also increase its cost.
Vendors usually purchase domestic-made sausages. But ketchup or mustard - imported (Finnish, Bulgarian, German, Hungarian food industries). The average cost of sausages is 2.5 USD per kg, sausages - 3 USD, ketchup - 1.5 USD per kg, mustard - 1.5 USD, mayonnaise - 1.8 USD per kg. A loaf of bread 0.5 kg (10 pieces of bread 50 g each) costs about 0.5 USD.
In addition, you will need napkins or disposable tableware (according to the rules of sanitary and epidemiological surveillance). The average cost of napkins is 5 USD per pack (100 pieces), utensils - 20 USD per pack.
If you sell sausages with plain bread and dress it all with ketchup without additives, the product is served on a napkin, then your monthly costs will be:
Sausages (60-250 kg) -155-625 USD
ketchup (based on 10 g per serving from 12 to 50 kg) - 18-75 USD
napkins (1250-5000 pcs.) - 50 USD
bread (at the rate of 50 g per serving - from 62 to 250 kg) - 32.5-125 USD.
Total: from 256 to 875 USD.
Business numbers
To start your own business you will need to make the following expenses: company registration (50-100 USD), license (100-150 USD), permit of sanitary and epidemiological surveillance, territory rental (per month), initial advertising (150-200 USD), necessary equipment (from 400 to 8 500 USD), the supply of raw materials per month (from 250 to 900 USD). Capital costs, such as buying a kiosk, are not included in the initial capital. The salary of the seller is also not taken into account here, since at the initial stage it is better to work yourself in order to save. In total, the amount with which you can start a business ranges from 1, 000 to 10, 000 USD.
Ideal option is 100% loading. So sausage work at stations and other crowded places, they serve in 24 hours from 200 to 1, 000 customers. But if you work an average of 8-10 hours a day and serve approximately 50-100 customers, then your sales will be 50-200 sausages per day, and the monthly profit is $ 1, 250-5, 000.
The cost of one portion - from 0.45-0.60 USD
Gross daily income - 30-120 USD
Monthly income - 437.5-3 000 USD
Profit before tax - from 600 USD
Profitability - from 120%
Payback period - from 3 months
Based on materials from Equipnet.ru
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