• Business: Hot Dog Cart
• Start-up Costs: R2 000 – R10 000
• Part Time: Can be operated part-time
• Online Operation? No

Business Overview

The biggest challenge to overcome in terms of starting a hot dog vending business is to secure a vendor’s permit in your local community. However, even if you can’t get one, you can still operate a hot dog cart on privately-owned property and cater to functions such as flea markets, auctions, sporting events and fairs.

This is a terrific business to operate on a full- or part-time basis. Secure a good location or local events to cater to. Read more on Why the V&A Food Market is a Great Place to do Business.

Currently, new hot dog vending carts are retailing in the range of R4 000 to R8 000 each, depending on the features. However, as a method to reduce start-up costs, consider purchasing a secondhand hot dog cart – they’re typically half the cost of a new one.

Vending cart business equipment

• Business: Vending Carts South Africa
• Head office: 13 Beatrice Str, Stanger, 4450, South Africa
• Visit: www.vendingcarts.co.za
• Call: 083 228 2332

Download: Food Preparation Sample Business Plan

• Business: Grocery Delivery Service
• Start-up Costs: Minimum
• Home Based: Can be operated from home.
• Part Time: Can be operated part-time.
• Online Operation? Yes

Business Overview

You have a few options available in terms of starting a grocery delivery service. The first is to simply contract with local grocery stores to deliver customer orders for a fee. The grocery store would bill the customer, market the service and manage the deliveries.

You simply deliver the groceries. The second and more lucrative option is to establish a buying account with a grocery wholesaler and resell groceries to your customers at a profit.

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This method means you’ll have to create a catalog of the grocery items you stock as well as market the service. However, once again the potential to generate more profit is greatly increased.

Grocery delivery services are often very profitable business ventures, as the convenience of home delivery makes getting customers very easy.

Good examples

• Pick n Pay food delivery
• Woolworths food delivery

Startup Costs: $10,000 – $50,000
Home Based: Can be operated from home.
Online Operation? Yes

Business Overview

Here’s a high-tech option for starting agrocery delivery service. Develop a website that features grocery itemsfor sale. To start, offer only the most popular grocery items, likemilk and bread, and as the business expands, so can your product line.Contract the delivery aspect of the service to people in your localcommunity seeking to earn a part-time income. The operating format forthe site would be very basic and easy to establish. Customers wouldsimply log on to the site, select the items they wish to purchase,enter payment and shipping information and wait for their groceries.Once established, this type of venture could be franchised and operatedin every community and city across North America.