I'm planning opening a pasty shop - what are the profit expectations?

fc123

Plant Sprayers? I don't think I have ever bought one but one could use an old Mr Muscle bottle, I guess, to be truly MSE.

Wine glasses...spend loads on those as they always seem to break and crack...must get used too much. Guessing £50pa.

carolt

Yes, funny what other people regard as essential, isn't it?

I've never bought a plant sprayer, either, but then children's swimming lessons is an essential, and costs us hundreds a year. (I do have kids' classes in my budget, BTW.) Mercifully, the bigger 2 have only got another 2 or 3 terms to go, and are now fantastic swimmers - far, far better than me. Which is important, as OH wants to do sailing, canoeing, etc with them - but not till they're 100% competent in the water.

And in another couple of years, we have to start all over again at the begining with DS.... :rolleyes:

Conrad

Plant sprayers are merely an example to get would be client's thinking deeply about thier true expenditure, as most have a tendancy to vastly underestimate thiers.

A classic tool I use is this;

Me 'so you spend £400 per month on all bills and food, and £400 on everything else, great that means out of your £3250 income you have £2450 pm saved for the last 3 years which is £88200, but you mentioned you only had a deposit of £15000'?

Conrad

PS - yes alright I have an indoor plant sprayer from Wilcos - keeps the plants atomised apparantly. mmm

Conrad

dopester wrote: »

Still, that list is a bit specific isn't it, and it could just run and run. If a mortgage advisor put something like that infront of me I'd be a bit worried.

I suspect someone like you would'nt need a broker. I use this tool particluarly with those who fall into the compensation culture herd. They love you to death when the mortgage comes through, but start threads on MSE 2 years later asking how they can proove a mortgage was mis-sold.

Have you seen some threads lately such as 'why did the Bank give me a loan on top of the mortgage', ermmmmmm because at the time you wanted to show off your new pad to your mates - could that be it!

lostinrates

I have a plant sprayer, its quite old and it dribbles. I've never replaced it though.

Conrad

lostinrates wrote: »

its quite old and it dribbles

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Mine's old and dribbles to. Perhaps we should'nt squeeze so hard

dizzybuff

To be honest why not do some scouting , ask local companies if they are prepared to let you come with a hot van.. There is one little company round here who ahve a sorta mobile food van , Hot pasties cooked the hour before and sold in the company car park.

Generally food is 200 profit , but you need basic hygene certificate, enviromental health inspectionsetc if you set up shop.. Start as a cottage industry , from home , hygene still needs to be upto standard but overheads would be small . Then once you have the customer base , get a local market stall or butty run . Get a street traders licence and start from there , find a pitch get a vana and oven and start from there ...

Many small companies have started like that . Buzzrocks in Manchester is a fab carribean that started as a mobile van ..

Get the customer base and they will follow you .

Its all trial and error

Hope this helps.

Oh by the way the customer may not care where the food comes from . But as long as it tastes nice ur on a winner.. One good selling point may be that all the food sourced is from british suppliers and of british origin ..

Conrad

Dizzy

Yep having a stall makes a lot of sense, but I don't know anything about how one gets a permanent static stall, in fact I'm not sure there is such a thing here, only day markets. Do you mean travel around from market to market?

dizzybuff

theres that or look for a butty van licence , you know the sort of cafe ones...

You may find farmers markets a good start , the cost may be high but get a customer base and you laughing

Unsure whats are you are in but look at your local council website .

You may find there is markets three days a week . worth starting with them and may be doing office visits the other days