Business Propousel

Business outline

In today’s busy world where time is precious to everybody; getting readymade food at the door steps is everyone’s wish. That’s the precise reason anyone from small restaurant to the biggest have home food delivery service. Everyone have their own choice in foods and eat different stuff at different time. Even In same family someone may want pizza for dinner, someone want subway sandwich, and someone may want Mexican food. In such situation when everyone in family want different stuff to eat at same time; you may end up spending lots of time going through different food menus, calling different restaurants, putting up separate orders and wait to get all orders delivered so that entire family can eat together. Wouldn’t it be great if we have a single place where you can order all your food from favorite restaurants? Yes it would be. I’m planning to propose this business idea where top/famous restaurant would be registered. Customers would able to view all restaurants food menu and put a single order of their interests and get delivered at the same time. Customers would have option of ordering over phone or online. This is my EZ delivery Line.

Business Planning Objectives

I’m always fascinated towards restaurant business. I feel this is the most popular business in the world as food is one of the basic necessities of human life. Opening a restaurant is not a piece of cake for anybody. There are so many challenges you would need to overcome especially when you are new to the whole business planning world. The business (EZ delivery Line) I’m proposing would have different challenges than opening a restaurant. I’m jotting down business planning objectives to make this happen.

Research/study the area (town/City) where I would like to launch this business.

Create information data about popular restaurants in the area.

Propose/market EZ delivery line idea to each restaurant. Make them convenience to register by offering attractive business proposition.

Advertise EZ delivery line including launch details in local news papers, television channels to get common consumers attention about this new home delivery service.

Distribute pamphlets on EZ delivery Line door to door in entire town/city.

Set up the office space and recruit staffs for various job responsibilities.

Set up Hot line (Phone), and web site portal. Advertise Web site details on other websites/restaurants sites.

Set up communication channel between EZ delivery line and various restaurants to streamline the home delivery service.

Summary

EZ delivery Line may not the great business proposal but with due measures taken and all business planning achieved properly; this could be the successful business.

Book Review

How to Start and Operate an Errand Service --Rob Spina

Prepared By October 13, 2007

Summary:

According to the National Restaurant Association, about 50% of every food dollar spent is on "off-premise" dining (eating restaurant meals at home). With both spouses working and less time for meal preparation, that percentage is going up and someone needs to coordinate and deliver it all. You don't need to be a cook or acquire a food license. In fact, you don't touch food at all. And the beautiful thing is - you make money not only from the customer requesting your service - but from the source supplying the food as well. A dream business if there ever was one! "- mentioned by Rob Spina in his book "How to Start and Operate an Errand service"

A meal delivery service is an inexpensive and easy business-to start up. The gourmet health food take-out business has become popular in the United States. Metropolitan areas seem to be the best places to start a meal delivery service. My business proposal "EZ- delivery Line" is based on network meal delivery services

After proposal now I need to take this to next level of making a plan to elaborate and develop this business idea. I need to research by going through various resources available in market like books, magazines and articles from newspapers or online websites. I came across a lot of useful information in various books on similar business concepts. Books I found the most interesting and related to my business proposal are: How to start a Home-Based mail order business, Retail distribution business and How to Start and Operate a Meal Delivery Service". Rob Spina author of book How to Start and Operate an Errand Service, spent two and half year researching and putting it all together in this book. As a part of the assignment I chose this book and attempting to put my understanding and review points of this book.

Book Review and analysis:

This book is comprehensive; it's fun to read and does not include unnecessary lingo or jargon that fills up other how-to type books and guides. Rob's guide is offered in plain, practical, hard-nosed language that will tell you how to launch this business and be your own boss. It's one of those perfect little businesses that you can easily start up on your own, with low overhead and investment... headquartered from home. It's one of those businesses that with your drive to succeed and make money, you can be pulling in real cash a short time after you start. This guidebook shows the reader, step-by-step how to make money providing a service that's much needed everywhere. The concept is simple: both businesses and consumers are busier than ever before and need help getting their work done.

This book outlines the basic information, consideration, strategies, challenges and planning to build your own errand service business in very simple way. Part I of this book explain the basic of home based business ideas, things you need to start and operate any kind of small business. It talks about various consumer services out of which you can choose your own interest to start a business with. I got the idea of my business proposal of EZ-