G🍎fruiti Business Tips Corner

A growing number of people prefer freshly squeezed juice or juice bottled without added coloring, flavors and preservatives, making this a great business opportunity.

To get started, you will need your recipes, some equipment and permission from your city or state's health departments.

Determine Your Niche Come up with a niche for your juice business.

For example, you can focus on selling organic juices, energy juice, juice smoothies or selling bottled juices wholesale.

Prepare a Business Plan Write a business plan that includes details about your niche; three-year operating expenses; three-year profit projections; marketing and public relations strategies; analysis of competing businesses; information about potential vendors and selling venues.

Create Juice Recipes Create juice recipes for your business, including flavors that aren't commonly found in grocery stores.

A varied menu will give customers an incentive to patronize your business.

For example, orange and pineapple juice are common flavors, but watermelon-acai and strawberry-carrot aren't as typical.

Research Licenses and Permits Contact your city's health department to find out what permits you need to start a food business.

A food enterprise license, food manager certification or food handler permit may be required.

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Locate Produce Suppliers Find vendors to buy produce, if you won't be growing your own.

Try to buy local – and in bulk – to save on transportation costs.

Contact farmers markets and growers associations in your area for a list of potential produce suppliers.

If you opt to go with organic produce, it will cost you more to make the juice, but you can also charge more to customers.

Find a Great Location Secure venues to sell your juice.

Options include flea markets, a roadside stand, farmers market, city festival, carnival or fair, or shopping mall food court booth.

Alternatively, you can bottle your juice and sell it wholesale to local grocery stores, restaurants, delis, fitness centers and cafes.

Doing so will require that you bottle the juices at a licensed facility, such as a food manufacturing plant or commercial kitchen.

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