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Failure: Getting Back Up When Things Go Wrong in Your Food Business Every food business hits rough patches. Maybe your new product flopped, your costs got out of hand, or your customers just aren’t buying. While failure feels awful, it can teach valuable lessons. Here’s a simple guide to bouncing back. Turn Your Problems into…
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First, The Hard Truth about your business Look, I know you’re doing everything in your food business yourself—the accounting, the social media, the label design, the inventory counts—on top of actually making your product. And I bet you’re exhausted. What’s Really Going On Meanwhile, when most food makers talk about outsourcing these tasks, they get…
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That pit in your stomach when you’re about to try something new? Every successful food business owner knows it well. But here’s the truth: cold feet never cooked a great meal. Failure tastes better than regret. The Real Cost of Playing It Safe: Premeditated regret Look around your city. The busiest spots are different from…
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I get it. Your small food business is your baby. You’ve perfected your recipes, built your brand, and found your groove. But here’s the thing: the market doesn’t care about your comfort zone. The food industry moves fast. Standing still is the same as moving backward, and that means you’re relevance is at risk. The…
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it’s hard to hold yourself accountable when you’re going it alone Running a food business can feel lonely. When you’re making granola, bottling hot sauce, or packaging meal kits yourself, there’s no one there to tell you if your ideas make sense. Independence is great – it’s probably why you started your business. But being…
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The Pressure to Expand Everyone will tell you that your food business needs to get bigger. They’ll say you should sell in more stores, make more products, and hire more people. If there’s no growth, people might think you’re doing something wrong. The Hidden Cost of Rapid Growth But here’s the truth: staying small can…
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Think back to why you started your food business. Remember those early days filled with pure creation, testing recipes, and dreaming big? Yet today, you’re buried in operations, and as a result, that creative spark is suffocating under endless tasks that anyone could do – if only you’d let them. The Hard Truth Let’s face…
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The Real Price of Figuring Everything Out on Your Own The 2 am club. When business keeps you awake Late at night somewhere, it’s 2 AM, and a food business owner is staring at a spreadsheet, trying to make sense of numbers that won’t add up. Meanwhile, another is scrolling through pages of regulations, desperately…
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food business owner, entrepreneur or technician. Are you Stuck in the Kitchen? Let’s get real – your killer recipe launched your food business. Whether you craft artisan jam, smoke premium jerky, or blend gourmet granola, that talent got you started. But now you chain yourself to the kitchen day after day, cranking out product after…
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The real cost of throwing away food Let’s be honest – throwing away food is literally throwing away money. Moreover, as a small food business owner, you’ve probably watched perfectly good ingredients head straight to the dumpster, and inevitably, food waste hurts your bottom line every time. Turning waste into revenue However, what if that…
