Of course, not everyone wants to work for hire. Every hard worker at least once thinks about how to start working for himself. If you managed to accumulate an amount, even a small one, then you can invest these funds in a business that, to your liking, will generate income. This article will talk in detail about such a business as a smokehouse.
The idea of creating your own smokehouse as a business is successful. The benefit of such an enterprise, taking into account all the costs, will be not less, or even more than 50%. The biggest advantage of small workshops is that the products for use pass strict control. While large workshops primarily use stale goods, which have an expiration date. Naturally, this affects not only quality, but also customer demand. It is best to start the smoking business with poultry meat, and only then supplement the smokehouse with fish, lard and pork or beef meat. Chicken is easiest to cook, much cheaper than other meat. And also chicken can be cut into pieces and offer the consumer a wide assortment in the form of breasts, wings, ham, whole chickens and thighs.
Competition analysis
This idea is not new and there is competition in the market. Therefore, if you decide to create your own business - a smokehouse, it is worthwhile to carefully study the work and proposals of all such enterprises in your district territory and region.
All of these enterprises have already established a distribution channel. Large workshops produce products in large volumes and can confidently supply them to retail chains; perhaps they have their own company shops and supermarkets. And small production companies sell through private stores that are located in residential areas, they can rent a point of sale in the market or a counter in a trading row. As well as competitors can use both of these distribution channels at the same time.
Also, when exploring competition, attention should be paid to pricing and quality. Only after conducting an accurate analysis can we correctly conclude what can be bet on in this fight.
One thing is obvious: if it is possible to start a smoking business with low costs, not to hire a lot of employees and save on equipment, then this is a big application for success.
Paperwork
First of all, when opening any business, it is necessary to legally either register the status of an entrepreneur or register a company. This will directly depend on the planned production volumes. And also from the most convenient form of taxation.
For a small smokehouse, which will sell products to markets or to private stores, the form of an individual entrepreneur is quite suitable. Open IP not for long, for a week you can completely manage. Here, the future businessman expects the first costs of state duty in the amount of 800 rubles.
And for ambitious newcomers who plan, immediately or gradually, but with large volumes of sales, it is better to immediately register a legal entity.
And also, so that in the future there would be no problems with the inspection authorities, you need to get all the permits to legalize business in the Sanitary and Epidemiological Station (SES), Rospotrebnadzor, the fire department, Rostekhnadzor, Rosprirodnadzor and other structures. When the process is launched and bulk purchases of raw materials go, it is imperative to take meat certificates and a certificate from the veterinarian each time from the supplier. After preparation, it is necessary to obtain product certification before marketing. Documents are executed no more than two weeks.
Choice of premises
Since the opening of the smokehouse as a business is an unpredictable business, and it is not known how it will develop, it is best to rent a room for a while, if, of course, it is not owned. If everything goes well and there is a need to expand production, then you will need to think about acquiring a property. Any lease, and even more so for a business, must have a signed contract between the owner and the tenant. Such a document should spell out the lease term from and to, the cost and term of payment, terms of termination of the contract, as well as carefully consider the other nuances that may arise, because in which case you will not be able to move out in the short term because of large equipment.
Division of premises into zones
After choosing a room, you must clearly draw up a plan for the smokehouse. Whatever the room intended for the smokehouse, it should be divided into separate rooms for each stage of production, such as:
- Room for thawing meat.
- Meat cutting room.
- The production room where the smoking chamber itself is located .
- The room where the packaging takes place.
- Refrigeration room.
- Washing room with baths for meat.
- A place for handling inventory.
- Place for storage and drying of containers.
- Warehouse of consumables, packaging and storage.
What should be the room
Where the smokehouse will be located, it doesn’t matter. Therefore, you can safely give preference to the room, which will have the lowest price, regardless of its location. The advantage is the close location of the point of sale, because there is no need to spend money on freight transportation. You also need to pay attention to the fact that the smokehouse should not be closer than 300 meters from residential buildings. The optimal area of the workshop is 100 square meters. m. The room temperature should be between 16–20 degrees Celsius.
To make sure the room fits in all respects, for regulatory authorities including, it is better to pay attention to the former dining rooms. Still, such buildings were built in accordance with all the necessary standards and were tested more than once. It is desirable that the finish was made of tiles and bactericidal lamps were present. It is also necessary to worry about the place where a fire shield with fire extinguishers will be installed.
Will there be a demand for products? This largely depends on its quality and how raw materials correspond to all the necessary features. Therefore, it is very important to find reliable suppliers. It’s difficult to immediately understand what a wholesaler is, it’s better to start working with trial and small shipments. It is necessary to pay attention to what percentage of marriage, on the correspondence of weight, how much the required type of meat.
As a rule, suppliers release raw materials in plastic containers with all the necessary documents signed by the head. It will be useful to double-check the weight before you buy it.
When the raw material is purchased, it must be washed. Immediately you need to prepare a saline solution for meat and pour it into the injector and process it. Then the meat is hung in a smokehouse. Juniper or beech wood chips are used for smoking. Chips per 100 kg of meat require about 1.5 kg. Once the smoked meat is ready, it is packaged and sent to a warehouse or point of sale.
Necessary equipment for the smokehouse
For the manufacturing business, you need to buy a special camera, which is designed for a volume of not more than 300 kg per day. Over time, you can expand production to several tons, you can gradually buy installation equipment. There is equipment of different brands, and their prices are also different, so everyone can choose for themselves what they consider necessary, and most importantly, afford.
Let's analyze the average smoking chamber. On average, the weight is not more than 120 kg, energy consumption is 600 watts per hour, so that the wiring must comply with these parameters. The production of smoked meat in time for this equipment lasts from 1.5 hours per 100 kg.
When working out the business plan of the smokehouse, it is necessary to enter the purchase and prices of the following equipment there:
- Smoking installation.
- Container for salting.
- Smoking crates.
- Trolley for crates.
- For small fish skewers.
- Refrigerator
- Libra.
What else you need to buy
Smokehouse equipment is not everything. It is necessary to purchase knives, hooks for hanging meat, containers for brine, a cutting table, disposable aprons and shoes for workers in large quantities so that employees can change them every day, racks for defrosting meat, bathtubs for washing raw materials, equipment for packaging.
Workshops
At first, 1-2 years, you can do without hired workers within the family and relatives. Accounting services can also be obtained without hiring an employee, but only as necessary. Logistics for the transportation of raw materials and finished products can be handled by one person, and he can also be assigned the task of searching for suppliers and outlets.
Expense item
One of the main expenses in production is the rental of premises. As mentioned above, this amount depends on the location, an average of one square meter starts at 300 rubles. And you also need to consider car rental - an average of 10,000 rubles, again the price depends on the make of the car and other technical and depreciation indicators. A considerable amount will have to be spent on the purchase of equipment - 300,000 rubles, but you can buy cheaper on hand. Consumables, utilities and the purchase of raw materials - this is another plus 200,000 rubles.
Profit
Starting the production process, when all sales channels are established, you can receive an income of 115% from the purchase of raw materials. Thus, with the established production and marketing of products, the entire electrical installation will pay off in about two to three months. If you go moderately and gradually, then the payback can stretch to eight months, but you can already count on net profit.
So, the main points about how to create a smokehouse are listed in the article. The last two important factors remain - this is patience and work. You need to be prepared for the fact that not everything will turn out right away. And even if any obstacles got in the way, in no case should you give up. It is possible that success is about to begin, you need to be prepared to meet him. After all, as you know, a long road begins with one step.