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13/03/2008, 9:50 inkflo Joined on 29/02/2008 Posts 54 Baking & selling pies Hello Can anyone tell me if there's an easy way to bake and sell pies in France? I'm not looking to make a fortune, but if it's necessary to have to register & pay a lot of money up front, then it will probably be a non starter. I was wondering about selling on markets or to restaurants etc.    Report

13/03/2008, 10:44 Iceni Joined on 23/08/2004 Lot 46 Posts 2,906 Re: Baking & selling pies  inkflo wrote: I'm not looking to make a fortune .... If we are to believe the "songs" from the terraces you would need the likes of P.Gascoigne and W. Rooney so I suspect that you will not make a fortune. Any biz venture in France seems to require registration and upfront cotisation payments but good luck anyway. The French do not seem to embrace a pie culture so there may be a niche. John   Di Free resource site for new and aspiring Virtual Workers    Report

13/03/2008, 12:39 Val_2 Joined on 23/08/2004 Posts 3,054 Re: Baking & selling pies  inkflo wrote: Hello Can anyone tell me if there's an easy way to bake and sell pies in France? I'm not looking to make a fortune, but if it's necessary to have to register & pay a lot of money up front, then it will probably be a non starter. I was wondering about selling on markets or to restaurants etc. As with any food production,you will have to have the kitchen fitted as per the regs and be regularly inspected which after the initial outlay plus cotisations will probably leave you owing money. Sorry, but the rules are very strict here and you really would need to have regular clients. We have friends who are retired boucher/traiteurs etc and their laboratory for preparing foods for sale was inspected every few months and had to be upto scratch. Suggest you speak to the local Chambre de Commerce who can give you the facts.    Report

13/03/2008, 17:39 jon Joined on 29/12/2007 Gironde Posts 328 Re: Baking & selling pies Enlighten me please. All the foods sold on market stalls....are they working within the rules of health and safety. People handling food should use...disposable polygloves......and not handle money, pens etc...cross contamination. Even healthinspectors in uk seem to miss a lot of detail wrong,Thed most unhygenic things in the world are articles which have been handled by others...money etc.    Report

13/03/2008, 18:57 Tony F Dordogne Joined on 10/04/2005 Small village in the Dordogne, near St Cyprien Posts 1,409 Re: Baking & selling pies I know of a couple who actually do this, supplying a range of products for people on at least two markets, one of which is La Bugue.  I've only ever bought eccles cakes from them - can't beat a good eccles cake and they are good - but hubby and wife both smoke, not over the food but at the side of it and thus far I've never seen him wash his hands before he serves customers or wear polygloves. But they're always looking for people to work with and suppliers and from what somebody told me who was in negotiation with them, they have to work all the hour sent to even break even as the market for this sort of product is really so small.  They also do curry nights to try to make more money but the whole thing isn't that well regulated judging by the way they act. That said, a Dutch woman who sells cheese on the local markets always wears gloves, changes them regularly and has a small portable hand basin so somebody cares about health and hygeine. Tony F Dordogne (24) Huguenot Trails    Report

13/03/2008, 22:10 Iceni Joined on 23/08/2004 Lot 46 Posts 2,906 Re: Baking & selling pies  Tony F Dordogne wrote: That said, a Dutch woman who sells cheese on the local markets always wears gloves, changes them regularly and has a small portable hand basin so somebody cares about health and hygeine. That means she's selling either Halal or Kosher.  Market days may give you a clue as to which (but it may not of course). John Di Free resource site for new and aspiring Virtual Workers    Report

14/03/2008, 13:16 Pierre ZFP Joined on 12/11/2004 PdC(62)/Luxembourg Posts 1,649 Re: Baking & selling pies I've just remembered.  Today is Pi day Fool me once, shame on you Fool me twice, shame on me Fool me 3 times and you can see a statistical tendency    Report

15/03/2008, 13:17 inkflo Joined on 29/02/2008 Posts 54 Re: Baking & selling pies Thanks everyone, looks like I would have to bake on an industrial scale to cover the set up costs & be legal. I'll keep trying though.    Report

15/03/2008, 14:26 Tony F Dordogne Joined on 10/04/2005 Small village in the Dordogne, near St Cyprien Posts 1,409 Re: Baking & selling pies No she isn't John, it's just that she has a hand washing thing and likes to keep everything clean. Tony F Dordogne (24) Huguenot Trails    Report

16/03/2008, 16:35 homeagain Joined on 16/03/2008 lancs Posts 12 Re: Baking & selling pies  inkflo wrote: Thanks everyone, looks like I would have to bake on an industrial scale to cover the set up costs & be legal. I'll keep trying though. Very true, from the word go they will be sending out the bills..........one native French guy did say, whilst taking our cotisations that we could not afford, "you should always set up your business in England, like many French people do.  He also said that the French will have you closed down in three years and he was right.............Enough of the doom and gloom, good luck to you..........maybe you could supply a local shop, French or English, the brits love their pies apparently. http://www.ezfreewebhosts.com/    Report

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