- All right so how to start a food delivery business
from home.
This podcast, we're gonna cover this topic
which is actually gaining a lot of momentum.
And there are a couple of states
that have already begun to allow people to cook food,
not just under the Cottage Food law,
but actual food from their homes
and even use a delivery app to make it happen.
And you wanna know what states those are?
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All right so welcome back to the Marketing
Food Online podcast and I've got exciting news
about a couple of states where you can actually begin
to create a home food delivery business
right out of your home but of course you have
to have certain licensing and such.
We're gonna dive into some of these stipulations
and regulations that you have,
and then realize that actually many states
are beginning to follow suit with this
and it's pretty exciting.
The reason why I'm actually pretty happy
is because a lot of my subscribers
have asked me questions about this,
so how to start a small cooking business from home,
or how do I create some type of a food delivery business
from home?
Is it legal and how do you do it?
Can I use DoorDash or can I use Uber Eats?
So, we're gonna dive into this and I'm super excited
to bring you this information and I highly suggest
that in a couple of states where you may be,
some states are beginning to contemplate this.
They don't have it on the books just yet,
but there are definitely some ways that you can
kinda nudge some of these regulators
and let them know that you are definitely interested in it
and try to get the cities and counties
where you particularly live to open the doors
in the regulations to allow you to do this from home.
Now, of course, a couple of these states
that I'm gonna go over, I'm gonna name
those two states in a moment,
they do have certain criteria
and of course there are specific licenses dedicated to it
and some basic core kind of food sanitation
and food handling courses that you'll have to take prior to,
which only makes sense and it kinda
just lets you understand the process of doing cooked foods.
Now, traditionally under Cottage Food laws,
you were allowed to make certain products
and certain items, but it's not exactly time
or temperature sensitive items that you still can't do.
What's classified as potentially hazardous food products,
which would be items that have to be kept at certain
temperatures or a certain timeframe.
So, that's one of the limitations that most states
have still in place for their cottage food businesses.
But with that being said, these two particular states
have begun to open the door and opportunities
and hopefully set a precedent and an example
for other states to follow because to be honest with you,
I think all of you who are watching my videos
are certainly capable of handling
some type of a cooking process outside of baked goods
and cookies and you know, the traditional
cottage food items.
I think many of you, if not, all of you have the capacity
to do this, it's just that the states
need to create some type of regulations within their state
just to say, look, take a course, have a certain license,
have a certain inspection, but go ahead
and start creating some money.
Because what happened last year is there's a lot of chefs
and a lot of entrepreneurs who own even restaurants
that were closed, or a lot of chefs who may
have lost their jobs, but they love to cook,
they have a passion for it.
So why not allow them to tap into simply
using their existing resources,
like their own kitchen and their own equipment
and basically make a living doing what they love to do.
If they don't have a restaurant that's open
or they lost their permanent job as a chef
or a cook or a sous chef, whatever it may be,
or even a pastry chef, whatever that may be as well.
But you should allow people to actually operate businesses,
give them a little bit of guidance
and regulate them slightly.
Let them, you know, have an inspection here,
get a license that open their business,
but just let them do what they're gonna do.
So, there's a great article that I came across,
I was doing a little bit of research on this
and I found that in California and Utah,
Utah actually just created an unprecedented law.
Absolutely amazing, I'm so glad that they did this.
It's fantastic for people in Utah.
Is that this law allows them to actually
create a restaurant in a sense out of their kitchen.
Now, when I say restaurant, you're not gonna go there
and sit down and eat, but allow them
to create cooked foods, meals, lunches, actual food,
not just baked goods and trail mixes and things,
but actually cooked food.
And even tap into a local delivery app
that allows people within a certain radius
to have the food delivered.
That is super exciting for people
who've asked that question about how to start a delivery,
a food delivery business from their home.
This is something that's trickling into other states.
So if your state is obviously not one of those two,
you definitely want to kind of knock on the door
in the sense of local commissioners
and lawmakers and regulators within cities and counties
that you live and say, look, Utah is already doing this.
Can you guys get into doing this?
Can you guys create some laws to allow us
in our community to do the same thing?
Now with that being said, when you are actually
doing this out of California, I believe,
it has to be a license B.
There's two different types of licenses.
From my understanding is in California
they allow you to do it under the license B,
which is a little more expensive
to get that particular license
but what it does allow you to do is open the door
to selling products even to restaurants
or local third parties or other retailers,
even out of your home.
Utah is much different in a sense that
it's allowing you to literally create food products
and then tap into the existing app, believe it or not,
it's actually DoorDash.
DoorDash is now tapped into another app
that they have actually included,
which gives them a localized delivery radius.
And I think it's three to five miles
from the actual home where it is.
So if I've read that correctly,
it was about three to five miles.
But again, this is a stepping stone
and this is something that should gain momentum.
And if you are looking to do this out of your own home
but you don't live in Utah or California,
you need to start asking the lawmakers
in your area to kind of think about this
because create some type of ordinances and such.
Now let me double check really quick.
I know that Utah has this and one of the stipulations
that I actually have this up here on my laptop.
So one of the stipulations for this
was that you needed to have inspections if I'm not mistaken.
So what they do is they're going to allow
and correct me if I'm wrong, okay, yeah.
So of course you need to make sure that you're a business.
You need to have a business license
to make sure that you actually cover the liability factor.
Make sure that you create either an LLC
or some type of corporation.
Get yourself food business insurance.
This is normally not required in most states
under the Cottage Food laws.
But in order for you to be protected,
you need to do have a insurance policy
for the food business you're operating.
If you're doing it from your home
and someone happens to get ill or sick,
or there's a piece of plastic or glass
or something in the food, you're going to be responsible
for that.
So don't think that this is kind of a hobby
where you're just gonna start producing dinners
and lunches and breakfasts out of your house
and then delivering them with no type of responsibility.
You are fully responsible for what goes on there.
But again, this is a great stepping stone
for people looking to create this
and the idea to open the doorways to other types
of food products other than simply baked goods
and those under Cottage Food law makes sense.
So if you're looking to create homemade food
and you wanna sell it online, now the other thing is
many cottage food laws in almost every state
of course allow you to create certain food products
as we have mentioned in some of my other videos.
But the other thing was is that you were allowed
to literally sell them online,
but the only catch was that you would need
to be delivering that in person.
Several states allow you to do this.
You can create an online presence.
You can have a website of some sort.
And then what you do though, once the order is taken,
you need to deliver that in person.
Now the trick to that would be, it's still limiting
obviously the area.
If you have a website you're gonna be seen
in every state obviously 'cause you're online.
So you need to stipulate that
and make sure that you put that on the site that if,
let's just say if you're in Georgia
and you were able to do it online
and you're able to deliver the product,
there's a certain amount of radius, miles within that area.
You don't wanna be driving on the other side
of your state to deliver a food product, okay.
Same thing goes with this idea about starting
a food delivery business from home
is that there has to be a set radius.
If you're making a meal, you're obviously not gonna ship it
to another state.
You're obviously not gonna have the delivery guy,
if it happens to be DoorDash or another app
that has a touch, that's basically connected with DoorDash.
That app itself will give you a certain mile radius
that you want to stay within, okay?
But this is a great way to at least get started.
Or if you're a chef that's out of work,
create a side business, or even a business
to bring in money to obviously pay your bills and survive.
So this idea is a great one and California
and Utah are the two states that are kind of
frontiering this new idea about allowing people
to cook foods directly from their home,
aside from the actual Cottage Food laws,
which of course are in place in every state.
Now, the only state I know is actually New Jersey.
I believe they don't have a specific Cottage Food law
on the books just yet, but everywhere else in between
you've got quite a few states that allow you
to produce certain things.
Some of them will require business licenses,
some of them will not.
Some of them will require food handlers card
and some of them will not.
So the best way to check this really quick,
I know we're doing this podcast
but I'm sure we're gonna upload this one like we have been.
We're gonna put this on YouTube too.
Okay.
So this will be up on YouTube as well, but this video will,
down in the description below, I'll give you
some links for Cottage Food resources,
but you simply can just go to,
if you're looking for your state in particular
check our channel 'cause I do have also
Cottage Food law on several, quite a few states,
almost all the states.
We're gonna have all of them up soon,
but you go to Google type in the words
Cottage Food law and then your state's name
and then that is a way to get the resource
directly to the state website.
Go to the state website that are set up.
And then you can find out specifically
what types of foods you can make.
So, this is really an exciting thing
and I just wanted to do a podcast really quick about it
to let you know that the ball is rolling forward
in a couple of states already.
And this is some really big news
because hopefully it'll trickle down into other states.
I know Florida just increased their Cottage Food law
earnings every year.
I think it's $250,000, which was up, I believe from 50,000.
So a lot of states are increasing this
because they're seeing that there's a lot of people
who are obviously out of work
who can create home-based food businesses
and obviously make a living cooking
and making foods from home.
I think it's a great idea and every state
they should do it because it would also increase
the economy and help the state as a whole.
You charge them taxes and you operate yourself
like you were at a cafe or a restaurant
or any type of bistro, you run the same thing.
But letting people do it from home, I think is a great idea.
So if you're excited about this
or if you've got questions about the idea
of starting a delivery business from home with food,
definitely let me know down below in the comments
and I'll try to get to you guys as questions
as soon as I can.
So I'll see you on our next podcast.