Catering looks attractive from the outside, reality is often very different unfortunately.
Really, really hard work, tons of competition and generally seasonal. Margins on sales are generally high but you have to sell lots to just stand still. Location is critical.
Hobbies that turn into businesses have a high failure rate.
Just saying, like.
You forget, I’m a Chef, my initial plan was to retire at 55 & move to Orkney where we’d run a pony trekking & fishing centre, I was going to look after the fishing & catering side of things but Grandkids came along so our plans changed, I have done a couple of Catering jobs one was for family & I barely broke even, it was long hours & it pissed me off when people were coming up telling me how they would have done it.
The second one was an engagement party & went really well the girl’s father gradually got more & more pissed & kept asking how much I’d charged, when I told him he said “that’s not enough” & kept trying to give me more money, he kept putting £20 notes on the table, as I was packing away I went to give him the money back but he wouldn’t take it, I gave it to his daughter & explained where it had come from, it turns out she had only just made up with her dad as he had walked out on the family five years previously & the Mother then drank herself to death so the girl moved in with an Aunt & Uncle, the girl refused any help from her dad so I suppose he was paying me guilt money.
