/ck/ - Food & Cooking

I think you will get better replies on /biz/

set up a company using legalzoom or whatever on the cheap, but pay them extra to research and provide for you the proper licenses
many sauce makers start as hobbyists and do it on the side. but if you're selling food items you need to really be divorced from liability and you need to get your licenses in order or you could wind up being disastrously fucked

> make sauce
> bottle sauce
> market sauce

An affordable bottling setup is a tough hurdle for a lot of small food producers. There are companies who will bottle on contract, even guys with mobile operations who will come to you to do a couple hundred cases at a time.
If your local market isnt too saturated and the sauce isnt terrible, be honest with yourself here, then you can do a good business selling to restruants and at farmers markets before you get picked up/ are able to provide for bigger distributors.
Good luck on the endevor, faggot.

>>11826060
1) you will need to check your local laws for the legal requirements for producing food for retail sale. This is almost impossible to discuss generally speaking, it depends on where you live specifically. Normally it means your sauce must be produced and bottled in a facility which has been inspected by the local authroities. What exactly that entails varies a great deal. In some places you might be able to have your home kitchen inspected. Other places the only viable alternative (unless you're a millionaire) is to rent space in an extant kitchen or facility, or to subcontract someone to make the sauce for you with your specifications. That information is hugely variable.

2) once you know what the above will cost you, write a business plan. that's where you figure out what things you need, what they will cost, and how you expect to make your money back.

>>11826082
>>11826083
Thanks anons. I hope one day you may be able to find it in your local supermarket.

Mfw op gets a big fine and is ruined for life

>>11826060
The key is to name your hot sauce after something an edgy 16 year old would come up with.

This thread is shit.

>>11826141
This, call it : gay conversion therapy

For me, it's paying some filipino 25 cent a thread to market it on /ck/.

>>11826263
>only hiring one for 25 cents.
Come back when you hire ar least two for 48 cents between them.

I'd say start with 1 sauce and either license the recipe to a major hot sauce maker and take a massive royalty and get a name for yourself. Network with people in the food entertainment and fast food industry and push some a range and use it to find a food manufacturer that can make your sauce once you have enough market reach. Make sure the marketing (product labels, website, social media) is top notch and pitch your shit to wing places, social media channels and content creators and once you have a way t push the brand then ramp of production of the brand. However, when starting out don't get stuck with a crazy number of inventory of bad shit. Make sure your recipe is good with food pairings, enter sauces to use in local and national competitions and give samples to influencing people that can tell you if you have something that people would buy over the staple hot sauces (minus tabasco, frank's, etc. because you won't beat those unless your marketing is god tier and pushed by a massive food company).

For starters can you generally tell us without giving the full recipe what kind of sauce range you've experimented with so far and how reactions with people who aren't your friends feel about them?