help with pizza delivery service

antioola

I have noticed everyone here is so negative!

OP good luck, I am sure you can sell your sainsbury pizzas!

you'll need insurance and your kitchen checked by Enviro health

and a health and safety certificate.

I suggest you contact the council

You may even get a discount on your council tax bill for using your premises as a cookery.

Cannot get over how negative this place is!

lincroft1710

antioola wrote: »

I have noticed everyone here is so negative!

People try to give helpful advice, not just post what the original poster wants to hear. A lot of business ideas on here just won't get off the ground. We don't want to see MSE members on the Debt Free Wannabe or Bankruptcy boards because their business has failed.

You may even get a discount on your council tax bill for using your premises as a cookery.

If OP uses their home kitchen to cook the pizzas, it will have absolutely no effect on their CT bill.

antioola

lincroft1710 wrote: »

If OP uses their home kitchen to cook the pizzas, it will have absolutely no effect on their CT bill.

More ludicrous posts from you, he'll end up in Bankruptcy now! With his 99p debt to Aldi and friends who are willing to work for nothing to see if his business can work. Silly silly people.

There is a tax credit or relief, or giveaway (however you'd like to call it) available on business premises at the moment so i think you'll find it will.

lincroft1710

antioola wrote: »

More ludicrous posts from you, he'll end up in Bankruptcy now! With his 99p debt to Aldi and friends who are willing to work for nothing to see if his business can work. Silly silly people.

There is a tax credit or relief, or giveaway (however you'd like to call it) available on business premises at the moment so i think you'll find it will.

Council Tax is not payable on business premises. If OP uses someone else's business premises for weekend, he won't be paying rates, the majority user will.

The only one making ludicrous posts on these boards is you. You are also extremely rude. There is the forum etiquette at the top of the page, be nice to all moneysavers.

paulwf

antioola wrote: »

Cannot get over how negative this place is!

It's because a large proportion of new businesses fail. What that doesn't show is that many more plod along with the owner injecting their own money, breaking even or making under min wage without holidays at best. That is why so many forum users try to pull ideas apart so that weaknesses can be exposed.

You should look at it in a positive way. If weaknesses are revealed and dealt with the business and therefore the person who started the thread will make much more money. Remember this isn't a mutual lets all have a group hug forum, its main aim is to maximise profits and in turn stop people losing very significant amounts of money.

jexygirl

Firstly off topic

antioola wrote: »

Harrassment and demeaning people is not the same as a "reality check" LOL. You have a big head. with a lot of empty space one would think.

I am taking offence to your comments and duly reporting harrassment as you seem to be singling out my comments despite several other people saying the same thing and not only on this post...

And OT, OP glad PC is fixed! The comments were not aimed soley at you, it is something that has been happening on here for a while as Paul has clarified

Good luck
Jex

Savvy_Sue

paulwf wrote: »

Write a business plan and work out what your key potential failure points will be. I think you'll be at the mercy of your delivery staff, if they don't turn up you'll be stuffed. Make sure you have a pool of flexible yet reliable staff basically.

Even without any catering or delivery experience, I agree with this. If I phone in a pizza order, it's generally because I'm hungry now, not because I want pizza in an hour's time. And just as there's huge demand on the national grid at the end of very popular programmes on TV (or there always used to be in the days when 4 live channels was all there was!) as we all rushed to put the kettle on and go to the loo, I bet there are times when we all want a pizza, NOW!

paulwf wrote: »

A conventional catering oven may not be suitable as you will be opening and closing the doors all the time and it won't maintain temperature.

Actually, I've noticed that the places I know serving pizza don't have doors on their ovens at all: they have a revolving belt which moves the pizzas slowly through the heat and out the other end. And I think the one which concentrates on pizza has more than one of them!

worried_jim

Savvy_Sue wrote: »

Actually, I've noticed that the places I know serving pizza don't have doors on their ovens at all: they have a revolving belt which moves the pizzas slowly through the heat and out the other end. And I think the one which concentrates on pizza has more than one of them!

Yes you are right,a dedicated pizza oven uses a lot of energy and can't be turn on and off, they need to be turned on at opening and stay on. In the 18 months I worked in the business (I stopped Jan 2010) the price of cheese tripled the cost was mostly absorbed by the business as competion is fierce. Pizza bases are pre bought but the toppings are added when required. Easy Pizza would supply boxes of frozen Chicago Town pizza and when an order was sent through they just went in the oven for twice as long. As soon as our contract with easypizza was up we didn't renew it as it was a drain on the business, they were known as p1key pizza and impossible to make a profit from so we concentrated on our own brand with higher profits. Without wishing to be too negative I would never get involved with the business again, it was truly draining and soul destroying.

richie_beckett

One thing i dont understand is the post about the delivery driver and PAYE/NI etc. Aren't most delivery drivers either self employed/cash in hand? When i was doing delivery work a short while back after being made redundant (had relivant buz insurance) i was told it was a self employed role and i would be responsible for my own tax etc. The company gave me £20 then £1 per delivery and £2 for longer distance travels.

Also got a free pizza at the end of the shift :T

paulwf

Brooklyn - I didn't think of it earlier but as well as the business logistics you also need to think of the impact on your personal life. You mention that you may just do this weekends so presumably you're looking to fit it around another job which means the impact it has on your personal life is doubly important.

Put simply you will never have another weekend or bank holiday off, if you have a partner they may be encouraging you at this stage but I doubt after 6 months of turning down wedding invites from friends, never taking your OH out for dinner at the weekend and generally your work clashing with any normal social life they will think differently. It's a serious consideration and probably more important than the profit, catering hours can end relationships if you're not careful.