Mama put business is very profitable and what is it about; mama put is the other side of restaurant business. We have class in everything, restaurant is classical while mama put is a low level way of selling food. Just in case you don’t have the capital to start restaurant you can quickly set up Mama put. It doesn’t require exorbitant expenses to set it up. You can cook only but one kind of food, for instance only rice, stay under a tree and get to see people gathering you to buy.
Do you know some restaurant owners started as a road side food vendor. There is, this story of a lady who went to meet her pastor, that things weren’t going on well with her. Out of sympathy the pastor gave her #2000 to buy food and eat. I don’t mean now, this is when #2000 was like #20,000 today. The lady didn’t buy any food to eat, instead she went to the market bought 2 cups of rice, bought small meat and ingredients. She cooked jollof rice, took few plates/spoons at home went and stay close to a construction company. Some of the workers bought all her food, the next day she repeated same and continued like that until the construction company gave her a space inside for restaurant. And now this woman owns a restaurant in one of the leading private universities in Nigeria.
Steps to set up mama put business
- Do a research on the location you want to set up the business
- Identify target market
- Source for capital
- Write a business plan on how to run the business
- Prepare a good meal that would keep people coming back
Do a research on the location you want to set up the business
This is very important so you will have an idea of the population of food sellers, where it is lacking, which of course you have to take advantage of. Identify a spot you will position your mama put business.
Identify target market
Target market could be; banks, institutions, market, building site, commercial centres etc.
Write a business plan on how to run the business
It is very important to write mama put business plan. It will help you to have a smooth running of the business.
Source for capital
This is important because without capital the business cannot start. How much is needed to start mama put restaurant business. You can start with as low as #10,000 but the higher your capital the higher your profit. You can make double your capital.
Start your mama put business idea
Cook your food and make it very tasty for customers to keep coming.
Items needed food road side food vendor
- Pot
- plate/spoons
- cooler
- water
- source of fire
- umbrella/bench
Types of food to cook
- Rice
- beans
- soup/swallow
You can add pure water, soft drinks etc
