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The market for gourmet foods and treats is growing despite the economy and there is still time to get in on it. With a careful selection of products and a focused effort at attracting a selected target market, you can build a successful business too. Here are two gourmet food businesses you can consider to enter this popular and growing field. The first gourmet business idea to consider is making and selling gourmet coffee and tea baskets. This has been around for a while but there is still plenty of room for a person with an eye for selecting the right mix of products they then arrange together in an attractive and appealing presentation. You can offer a combination of serving size or larger varieties of coffee and tea. You can also offer a selection of crackers and biscuits to make it even more tempting. There are hundreds of varieties of coffee and tea available from exotic locales around the world people would love to try if they only knew about them. You will also want to look at ...

Most culinary schools today are still teaching their students how to compute the wrong food cost. Granted the math is right, but the dollars involved are hurting the bottom line of our restaurants. The problem arises from the separation of percentage points and dollars. Banks Use Dollars, not Percentage Points One thing I am quite sure of is that banks do not accept percentage points as deposits, believe me I’ve tried! For some reason the teller just looked at me dumbfounded then just started chuckling. Matter of fact she had so much fun with it she showed the teller next to her who responded in much the same manor. I didn’t find the humor in it since I had bills to pay, product to buy, and employees wanting their cash too. To rectify the situation I cowered to the pressure and made out a revised deposit slip using their required dollar standard. So if you can’t deposit percentage points why do most restaurants use this as their key focus goal? Shouldn’t the esta...