new biz for wife and i
robert
03/10/07 		wife ans i are lookinh to open a store front take home dinner place. we will open monday-friday and provide meals to go for busy familys-couples-even single meals. We want good homade food hoping to do 2-400 meals a day with good promotion. Any ideas ,comments,suggestions please feel free to call. meals like grandma used to make concept

robert
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ellen
03/11/07 		Robert, I hear your hopes, but have to ask some hard questions. Do you have previous food experience, market contacts, liability insurance, a business plan and a kitchen with health department approval? If not, you can be shut down in a minute. The failure rate on food businesses is over 50% at one year and most that survive go two full years before going into and ataying in the black. Running a small restaurant is the only work I have ever done that was harder than nursing.
Nancy
03/21/07 		Accounting for home based business'
My husband is wanting to start up home based business websites,(three), my problem is I cannot find a bookkeeping system for this.
The Quicken and Quick books are good but not for homebased business. As we will not have a payroll and no employees his check will be coming to him. Where can I find someone who can tell me what accounting I need for income tax purposes. Also what I can deduct and what I can not deduct. I need to know how to set something up. I have no idea on this. My computer skill are up to date with Microsoft programs of word, excel, powerpoint, but I never took an accounting classes. At the moment I am looking at a blank page on Excel.
ellen
03/23/07 		AStart at the SCORE (Service core of Retired Executives) of the Small Business Administration. They also have free workshops on small business and self employed accounting. Do not back down- you can end up in astonishing trouble with poor choices or bad advice- like my friends who paid over $100,000after an IRS audit...