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Post by crahmer on Feb 15, 2018 0:54:04 GMT -5
Hi everyone,
I am brand new to this forum and and excited to learn all I can while starting my new business. A little about myself. I have been making chocolate truffles and other treats in my home for many years and have received an opportunity to rent a kitchen. In WI we have to have a licensed kitchen or rent one. I am going through all the steps to get the proper licenses and testing done of my product but, I now have a pricing concern.
The place that I will be renting a shared Kitchen will also be buying my product at wholesale. I am providing all my own equipment but will be using a small area for storage of product and an area in the fridge. Now I have my cost down to the piece and have multiplied that by 2 for wholesale pricing. I then added into my overhead pricing a small amount for salary and my rental cost. This is gets calculated per piece. My mind is saying this is wrong as I will be charging her the rental that I am also paying her.... Am I off my mark here or is my pricing correct to charge the wholesale pricing with the rental fee? I think this is correct because she will not be buying all of my product as I do plan getting my product out in other places eventually.
Thank you in advance.
Claudette
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Post by cacaosublime on Feb 15, 2018 9:03:22 GMT -5
The rent is involved in the cost of making the chocolate, so yes it should be included in the price of the chocolate. If you wouldn't be charging the rent she would get a very good deal out of it She then will get the rent, but also can buy chocolate at a discount (and she doesn't have to trade anything against that discount). My advice would be to look at both 'trades' separately (meaning you selling the chocolate to her and she renting the kitchen to you). What would be appropriate in each of the trades? Hope that helps
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Post by crahmer on Feb 15, 2018 10:41:37 GMT -5
Thank you very much for the response! That does help a great deal. Glad to know I was initially calculating correctly and need to stop overthinking this!
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Post by drewbs on May 10, 2018 13:12:09 GMT -5
its very expsenive renting a kitchen for chocolate making... make sure to spexify that you will not be working the entire time you will be utilizing the space. since it takes so long for chocolate to be ground up, you need a rent discount otherwise its really not worth it. think about spending 600$ per 24 hours at 25$, versus 346$ per 10 hours working @ 25$ and 14 hours non working time @ 4 dollars an hour. if no one will do that price breakdown, you might as well lease your own kitchen.
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