 HOW TO SET UP TIFFIN SERVICES?

 Published on January 8, 2017

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Tiffin is a business that deals with offering catering services. This business has good
potential of growth and expansion because it is very profitable. In order to run Tiffin
service successfully, you will require more than a passion for cooking. Furthermore, you
will need good planning and management skills as well as flexibility to successfully
handle any last-minute changes required by customers.

How successful your Tiffin service will be will depend mainly on having good reputation.
For this business setup to succeed therefore, you must be able to meet the needs of
your customers and have the ability to work well under pressure.

How to Start Tiffin Business

Like any other business set-up, you need to understand how to run a Tiffin business
very well to make profit.

Things you require for a Successful Take-off

 Table cloths
 Kitchen facilities
 Tables
 Tiffin boxes
  Serving equipment
 Utensils – silverware, glassware

Research to Select an area of Speciality

You can decide to specialize in birthday parties, graduation parties, company dinners,
intimate dinner parties or catering for wedding events. You can decide to operate a full-
time or part-time Tiffin business in different offices in your locality.

Register your Tiffin Business

The registration of your Tiffin business can be done at your local county office. Once
you register, you can obtain an Occupational Business License. Collect a DBA aka
Doing Business As permit form from the office of the county clerk in your locality and
register the name of Tiffin service. Furthermore, register for a sellers permit since this is
a prerequisite for all catering businesses.

Obtain a Catering License

You can get this license from your local health department. This license will only be
issued after the inspection of your offices and premises to make sure that there is
compliance with sanitation and food requirements laws of the state.

Get your Business Insured

Obtain insurance coverage for all your facilities, equipment, and employees against any
unanticipated circumstances. Visit your local insurance agent to discuss about the best
cover you will likely require.

Get the Necessary Equipment

You can decide to rent or buy the equipment you require or make use of disposables.
Renting the equipment you will use for this business will minimize your start-up costs,
and this will help you to concentrate on establishing yourself in the market and build a
good company image.

Come up with a Menu

Develop a basic menu based on the time of events, type of events and the number of
people that will be in attendance. Provide a variety of options for breakfast and lunch so
that participants can be able to expressly select their preferred menu. Provide mini meal
and variety of food textures, colors and cooking methods.

rice your Tiffin Service

Before you price or set your Tiffin service, make sure you know the market prices. In
addition, consider your expenses and the profit margin you want to achieve.

Why Tiffin Service business is Gaining Popularity

Tiffin service is needed in offices, schools and some other institutions where people are
longing for homemade food unlike the fast food being served at various canteens
across the world. It is quite important for any Tiffin service to cater to the individual
needs of the customer and be prompt with delivery schedules to succeed.

This business has been in existence for quite an age and it is notable in every country in
the world. The setup always comprises of a team of chefs or a chef making homemade
food like mini meal for a particular number of people. Those responsible for the timely
delivery of the lunch box at the exact address are the logistic team of the Tiffin service.
The transport mode chosen will depend on the distance to be covered and the fastest
form of transportation.

Lunch Tiffin services are notable in offices due to the fact that nearly all those who work
in these offices love taking homemade food as it is always served hot.

Other reasons why those who are working desire homemade food as against fast food
prepared and served at office canteens include:

 You cannot say how hygienic is the food served in the canteen
 Stale food cooked some days back are sold to make profit. This makes people shun eating
food from canteens
 Homemade food is nutritious as it is freshly prepared
 Homemade food is delicious and wholesome
 This food from Tiffin service has its own unique taste and flavor that cannot be compared
with the junk food from the canteen.

Tiffin service owners are making quick and profitable business. A lot of people working
depend on these lunch boxes just for the reason that they want to keep away from
eating junk food at hotels or canteens due to nutrition and hygiene issues.

Scope of Improvement in Tiffin Service

1. Feedback from Customer is a must : No Tiffin setup can force any product on a customer.
Customers are kings all the time and they must be respected. Getting feedback from clients
once in a week or once every two weeks will be sufficient to keep their interest intact on Tiffin
service owner.
2. Include Supplementary items in the Tiffin Business Menu : Health is reliant on food.
Supplementary food items that are good for health could always be added in the Tiffin
service menu.
3. Plastic Lunch Box could be made Gorgeous : The plastic lunch box is the first thing that
clients will become aware of. Hence, these plastics must be made more striking to keep the
 hunger of customers alive. In addition, they must be neat to serve as mood maker for the
clientèle.
4. Allow Customer to decide what to eat : Get menu from customers in advance based on the
variety of items you have in your menu and what they want to eat. This will allow you plan
your inventory in a better way and be able to attend to individual customer, depending on
their needs. This will ensure better bonding in the association of the Tiffin business and the
customers.
5. Change the Menu Often : Do not continue serving the same type of food everyday.
Customers are ready to pay any amount for healthy and tantalizing food. Therefore, serving
the same mini meal with the same ingredient three times in a week is killing your business.
Be dynamic and plan the content for the entire week in advance to be successful in this
business. This will make consumers get variety of mini meal for breakfast or lunch and you
as the owner of the Tiffin business will be able to manage funds.

In conclusion, people cannot stop eating so this is one of the best business which never
failed, just do with honestly.

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Online cooking facility to people who are working and don't have time to cook food and prefer eating
food cooked with home made spices instead of ordering from restaurants.

Executive Summary of Business Plan:

To develop a website from where people can book there personal chefs online and these chef will come
at their places and will cook fresh food which is hygienic, tasty, healthy and is made of home made
spices.

Due to busy schedules people have no time to cook nutritious and variety of food for themselves and
end up eating junk food outside their homes.

So our aim through this plan is to target segments who are unable to prepare food for themselves at
home due to their busy schedules or due to bad health conditions. This will eliminate their perennial
problem of deciding - "what's for dinner"

Our target segment will include-

1. Working professionals and students.

2. Family households having small children

3. Senior and elderly citizens living alone

4. Physically handicapped people

5. Hostlers and PG students

We will also provide food services if anyone wants to organise birthday parties and kitty parties at
home.

We will also be offering our tiffin services specially to pg students and hostlers who don't have much
time to spend in kitchen and cook food for themselves because of their studies or jobs.

Special discounts will be offered to elderly people and physically handicapped people living alone who
don't have anyone to cook food for them and take care of their health.

If there is leftover food or extra food cooked which is not eaten by anyone we will donate that food to
the NGOs and outside religious places so that we can feed people who don't have easy access to food.