posted September 16, 2009 01:19 AM            

Anyway, most food products have about a 50% food cost. Therefore if all your ingredients cost you $2/lb you resell it for $4/lb. Cakes and cookies usually have a lower food cost though - otherwise you'd be buying fresh cookies for a quarter at stores. That type of thing is generally best to find a grocery store and/or bakery that already sells fresh cookies and check out where your local market currently stands. Remember that whatever you sell to a grocery store then gets marked up another 30-40% (you sell a cookie for $1 and they would resell it for $1.35). Small businesses don't need nutritional facts, but you do need to follow federal & state labeling requirements and would need a bar-code (I can share more about that if you want). Stores generally want you to carry product insurance too, but that doesn't generally cost much over your regular business liability insurance.