You've already cooked for 50 plus people at your church and local club. Maybe your friends and family are right. Perhaps you should start your own catering business. Why not make a living at what you love to do?

And that, no doubt, are just some of the questions that brought you to this book. Starting with the three different ways you can acquire your own catering business, and ending with a list of the most important financial and organizational reports required for a well-oiled catering "machine," as well as everything in between, consider this book your catering primer.