Services - Food Product Development
Do you have an idea for a food product? Navigating the world of contracts, nutritional labeling, package design, incubator kitchens, co packers, storage and shipping, distributors, retail outlets, mark ups, etc. is not for the faint of heart.
Work with the experienced team at Food Startup Help to help you bring a product to market successfully in the challenging food industry.
Work with the experienced team at Food Startup Help to help you bring a product to market successfully in the challenging food industry.
The Food Startup Help team of chefs can work with you to:
Evaluate Product Viability
- Write a Business Plan for company guidance and investor funding
- Develop a complete Capital Budget of start up costs
- Create 3-Year Projected Profit & Loss Statements
Prepare for Product Launch
- Develop a unique concept to position product for success in the marketplace
- Create menus, descriptions and establish prices
- Develop recipes from scratch or additional SKU R&D
- Source ingredients and identify wholesale vendors
- Analyze food costs
- Develop a short and long term distribution strategy providing potential distributors
- Establish a margin calculator for MSRP given your sales channel
- Complete nutritional analysis
- Conduct water activity test and shelf life tests
Determine Production and Growth Strategy
- Identify incubator kitchen or commercial kitchen rental options
- Evaluate brick and mortar development sites
- Provide and work with co-packers to produce product for large scale production options
PACKAGING AND BRANDING
- Work with you on food styling and photo shoots
- Oversee packaging and labeling of product
- Developing and overseeing comprehensive marketing plan including external and internal strategies, logo, social media, website design.
- Does not include cost of website or associated marketing materials*
Brick and Mortar Product Launch
- Design and plan kitchen including equipment sourcing and layout if self-producing on a large scale
- Create employee manual with all policies and forms for all employees
- Provide job descriptions for all Employees and assist with recruitment