Catering Business Guides · BC Food Business Guide
Plan licensing, production, transport and staffing for a Vancouver-area catering company. Use this checklist as a starting point, and verify current requirements with the appropriate authorities.
What to do before you launch
- 1Choose your catering niche: corporate lunches, private events, weddings or recurring meal service.
- 2Confirm applicable municipal and health authority requirements for preparing, transporting and serving food.
- 3Build menus around ingredient availability, safe holding temperatures, packaging and transport times.
- 4Cost every event using food, staffing, delivery, kitchen time, rentals and contingency.
- 5Find a kitchen with suitable prep tables, cooking equipment, refrigeration and loading access.
Find a kitchen that fits your business
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