I'm thinking of selling homemade treats at my job. What do I need to know?

[Anonymous]

Girl get yourself a waitressing or bartending gig. The selling food thing ain't gonna fly

[Anonymous]

If one of my employees were doing this, I would give them a choice: stop, or be fired. While you are selling the food, you are not working for me. I am paying for that time, I expect your focus.

I do not have a problem with a fundraiser or something like that, but those are not ongoing.

Plus, if you look at the economics, you will find that you will probably not make any money.

[Anonymous]

You can't make real money doing this. I know someone who tried to run a cupcake business out of her house. In short: you won't make any money.

[Anonymous]

If you really want to do it, post an ad on craigslist or whatever and/or rent a table at a farmers market or other bazaar. I like buying (and making) baked goods and good soups/stews, but I'd need to feel like 1) you have good hygiene and wash your hands FREQUENTLY. If I ever see you put your hands anywhere on your head, money, the ground, a trash can etc and then touch food w/o washing your hand thoroughly, it would be all over. 2) The recipes would have to be really good. This means different things to different people. To me, it means from scratch,no mixes, and in the case of soups, no mixes, no seafood, no sausage, no mushrooms, no fennel etc. If I detect a mix, it's all over. (And yes, people who cook from scratch can taste a mix.) 3) Legally you need to have a commercial kitchen so you'd need to look into renting a space in one. Personally, if you meet the above two criteria, I don't care, but me not caring doesn't make it legal. 4) It needs to be FRESH. Not fresh thawed, not fresh yesterday or the day before, but fresh TODAY. If your farmers market opens at 10, I expect you to be up at 3 making the goods FRESH.

[Anonymous]

No, please no. Ugh so awkward.

[Anonymous]

You cannot for many reasons

1. Health and licensing
2. Conflict of interest at work
3. Major rules in all of the districts about money changing hands- through gifts, fundraisers, etc.
4. People will avoid you
5. It will interfere with your job
6. The school already generates revenue through contracts with vending machine companies
7.Quite apart from state codes for selling food- your county has food rules, too.
8. In any school anywhere there is plenty of food from teachers. For free.

[Anonymous]

If you are a good cook, that good that people would buy what you make, there are a ton of ways to monetize them without mixing it with your day job. Start a cookie business out of your house, be a chef for hire, do frozen dinners etc. Don't bring your work into this, it won't end well. Just be a good teacher with a really fun side job.