Being business-like

Related resources

• Catering to the public

  If you are catering to the public there are all sorts of things to consider from registering your food premises to when to charge VAT and traceability of ingredients. You will find all the information you need to know in the Food Standards Agency guide Starting up – Your first steps to running a catering business.

• Useful documents on catering in community settings:
  • Promoting healthy eating choices in community café: key points learnt from a Glasgow community café development intervention (PDF 153kb)
    Community Food and Health (Scotland) February 2005. Highlights the work of an intervention instigated by Greater Glasgow NHS Board, Scottish Community Diet Project and Scottish Healthy Choices Award Scheme which aimed to increase healthy eating choices in 13 community cafés in Glasgow.
  • Routes to Health: case studies of two community-run mobile food shops summary of the case studies (PDF 789kb)
    Community Food and Health (Scotland) January 2005. Newsletter highlighting the work of two community projects from different urban and rural settings in Scotland – Health on Wheels in Paisley and Roots and Fruits in East Lothian – which run purpose-built mobile food shops.
  • Breakfast Clubs... More of a Head Start: a step-by-step guide to the challenges of setting up and running breakfast clubs in Scotland (PDF 980kb)
    Community Food and Health (Scotland) September 2004. Provides an insight into the process of developing a breakfast club at every stage from set-up to sustainability in current policy climate. Poses important questions and shares practical solutions to problems that others have encountered.
  • Glasgow Community Café Development Intervention: evaluation report (PDF 316kb)
    Community Food and Health (Scotland) April 2004. Evaluation of the Glasgow Community Café Development Intervention conducted in 13 community cafes in Glasgow that participated in a pilot project instigated by Greater Glasgow NHS Board, Scottish Community Diet Project and Scottish Health Choices Award Scheme.
  • Community mobile food initiatives in Scotland: case studies of two community operated mobile food initiatives (PDF 316kb)
    Community Food and Health (Scotland) February 2004. Report looking at how two projects on different sides of Scotland's central belt have attempted to tackle issues of food poverty and access by developing their own local mobile healthy food shops.
  • Developing effective community catering skills (PDF 366kb)
    Community Food and Health (Scotland) December 2002. A round-table discussion on effective community catering skills conducted by those involved directly or indirectly in community catering to exchange experience, skills and good practice, and highlight barriers and gaps to be tackled.