TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1 TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1 P.1 Explaining the new venture idea...........................................................................................1 P.2 Determining specific tangible and intangible resources of business plan............................6 Intangible resources.........................................................................................................................8 TASK 2............................................................................................................................................8 P3. Producing a credible proposal to launch a new venture.......................................................8 P.4 Assessing skills and capabilities required to launch a new venture....................................10 TASK 3..........................................................................................................................................11 P.5 Explaining different promotional activities and channels for the launch of the new venture ...................................................................................................................................................11 P.6 Developing an appropriate promotional activities plan for both launch and pre-launch of the venture.................................................................................................................................12 TASK 4..........................................................................................................................................13 P.7 Producing an itemised monthly cash budget for the venture..............................................13 P8. Suggest an appropriate legal form for the venture, stating why it has been chosen for your organization...............................................................................................................................16 CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................17 REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................18
INTRODUCTION The 21stcentury is a fast moving era. People of this age are very busy. They do not have time for their healthcare too. Today people are demanding healthy food to remain themselves healthy and fit. This report is presenting a business plan which is of organic food truck. Name of this food truck is“Health on wheel”.Inside this report executive summary about business plan will be presented. The report will also consist off competitive analysis, various pre and post launch promotional activities, legal ventures for business plan. A forecasted budgeted cash flow is also made for an estimate of the expenses. TASK 1 P.1 Explaining the new venture idea Executive summary “Health on wheel”will be the reasonably priced 10 seats food truck which will offer the organic food. Fruits, juice, vegetable salad, fruit salad, protein shakes, eggs, yogurt, dry fruits curry, etc. are all on the menu. In this food truck, they will offer all the organic food for the 1 Illustration1: FOOD TRUCK (Source:FOOD TRUCK, 2018)
young, adult, men, women, old etc. food truck will be operated by (write your name along with your partner here). The“Health on wheel”will put emphasis on organic ingredients. Customers: “Health on wheel” aimsto target distinct groups that believes that the market can be segmented into five group. The segmentation will be done geographically. Target will be different areas in city which includes Gym, Hostels, Hospitals, Old age homes, parks etc. these are some basic areas where food truck will offer organic food. Management:“Health on wheel”has assembled a strong management team.Three friends have decided to launch new venture which is basically based on the organic food. Apart from this, they will appoint one professionally trained driver, one senior chef along with two assistants and three helpers who will serve food and manage the whole working. Allthree friends will take the responsibility individually of different works inside the truck. For example, one had excellent accounting skill with IT skills so hewill manage the accounts' department (Terjesen, Bosma and Stam, 2016). Apart from this second owner will manage the raw material and stock and third will take care of other activities. Competitive edge “Health on wheel” scompetitive edges are: 1.The proprietor's sound understanding about running and opening a food truck. 2.An attractive, unique contemporary food truck design. 3.An attractive international featured menu, changes in every six months. 4.Proper marketing campaign including in and outside the city. Competitor Analysis To identify the competitive analysis of“Health on wheel”simple and best technique have been used that is SWOT analysis. The SWOT consists of Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats.The SWOT of “Health on wheel”are listed under along with their weighted impact on mission. The strengths of my food truck will arise from its unique feature that is mobility and its organic foods. It offers the organic food by itself that means it is a food truck which go to the customers and offers them a healthy food. It also saves time of customers. The truck also carries some natural and artificial things which help them to attract more customers. SWOT analysis: Strengths 2
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RatingsStrengthsweightWeight score 3Varieties of healthy cuisine5.00%0.15 3Inviting look6.00%0.18 4Goodwill7.00%0.28 3Quality of the service8.00%0.24 4Nutritional value13.00%0.52 3Met the requirements of Specials needs5.00%0.15 2Artificial and natural equipment's6.00%0.18 50.00% Weakness The weaknessof“Health on wheel”lies on its brand, because inside the city no one knows it. The existing business which are currently running have already acquiredmarket so it will take time to sustain this food truck inmarket. Another weakness about this is that it will offer the organic food which can be quite expensive than others. RatingWeaknessesWeightWeight score 3Fresh establishment18.00%0.54 4Limited fund14.00%0.56 4Higher prices of the organic food10.00%0.4 3Limited possibility of expansion8.00%0.24 50.00% 3
18.00% 14.00% 10.00% 8.00% 0.54 0.56 0.4 0.24 Fresh establishment Limited fund Higher prices of the organic food Limited possibility of ex- pansion Opportunities “Health on wheel”is having various opportunities like, it is providing organic foods with various geographic as well as demographic segments. There are very less restaurant and food trucks which are offering pure organic food for health conscious people. The attractive food truck design with artificial creation of nature will attract customers. RatingsOpportunitiesWeightWeight score. 3Population of students8.00%0.24 4Growth in health conscious people16.00%0.64 3Pure organic truck10.00%0.3 3Movable restaurant8.00%0.24 3Necessary locations (gym, hostels, parks, yoga centers)8.00%0.24 4
50.00% 8.00% 16.00% 10.00% 8.00% 8.00% 0.24 0.640.3 0.24 0.24 Population of students Growth in health conscious people Pure organic truck Movable restaurant Necessary locations (gym, hostels, parks, yoga centers) Threats There are only few threats inway of success of the“Health on wheel”in US there are very restraints who offers pure organic food (Lee and et.al, 2016). And talking about food trucks there are no food trucks which offers organic food to customers.The main competitor for “Health on wheel”are EVOS, Natural cafe, Organic to Go etc. they are restaurant which serves organic food and some similar food products. RatingsThreatsWeightWeight score 3Other local restaurants16.00%0.48 3Current economy13.00%0.3 5
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2High turnover7.00%0.14 4EVOS/ natural cafe14.00%0.56 50.00% 16.00% 13.00% 7.00% 14.00% 0.48 0.30.14 0.56 P.2 Determining specific tangible and intangible resources of business plan Before deciding to launch the business it is required to have various intangible and tangible resources. There are lots of tangible and intangible resources which are required for food truck are discussed under: Tangible resources These are those resources which are required by every business. Tangible means which can be seen, touch (Kuratko and Hornsby,2017). Therefore, these are those resources which can be seen and touched. The“Health on wheel”will require tangible resources are listed in the table. 6 Other local restaurants Current economy High turnover EVOS/ natural cafe
Tangible ResourcesPurpose Physical resources Vehicle Utensils Raw material Chairs and Tents Other resources As it is a food truck so it will require truck for further working. Venture is of organic food, so utensils for the purpose of cooking can be needed. There is a need of various raw materials for the food truck. Some seats and chairs are also required and tent to save truck and customer from the sun and rain. There must be other resources which are required like petrol, tool kit, first aid, etc. (A) Manpower resourcesDriverChefs Helpers Other managing staff (B)Financial resourcesCash Bankorfinancial institutions Professionally trained driver to drive truck. One senior and one assistant chef is required for the cooking and baking. In order to overcome burden of chef and maintain hygiene the helpers are required. The other managing staff is also required for handling account department, IT department. Etc. ____________________________________________________ Cashisrequiredtoopenventureandforpurchasingraw materials and other required things for“Health on wheel”. The other resources is Bank, if owner of the“Health on wheel” wants to raise finance for further expansion. Other resourcesOther resources will include resources which require for the promotional activities. Intangible resources Intangible resources are those which cannot be seen but are essential for the business. Here for food truck“Health on wheel”will require intellectual rights which mandatory for 7
business to have it. Intangible resources are very much important. The intangible resources are mentioned in the table. Intangible resourcesPurpose Product qualityIts purpose in the food truck is very much clear, because it is offering organic products which must be of good quality. Deliver reliabilityIf the food truck will provide home delivering service it must be reliable, fast and appropriate (Kuazaqui,2015). Staff moraleIn starting no one is clear that for how long business is going to run so it is very important for owner to maintainstaff morale and must also motivate them. Highquality management skills Owner should have high quality management skill for managing the workings in food truck Legalissuesand intellectualproperty rights As it is a sole proprietor business owned and run by owner itself do not need much legal issues. It needs to have all intellectual property like patents, trademarks etc. for food truck. TASK 2 P3. Producing a credible proposal to launch a new venture Concept Today in this era people basically are running very busy life. To survive in this era, people needs good health.“Health on wheel”,is a food truck which will offer organic food. It will mainly target gym, hostels, hospitals, schools, universities parks, fitness centers. Tag line Eat your veggies, have less wedges. Mission 8
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The mission of“Health on wheel”is to provide healthy organic food with best product quality, with the combination of interesting atmosphere with excellent tasty and healthy food. We want fair profit and rewarding place for employees. Vision Increase in sales by $350 k by 2020. Expansion in the entire city New York by 2020 and further expansion in entire country US. Earn more profit by providing people with healthy food. Marketing Plan The marketing plan will consist of four P's of marketing mix which includes Product, price, place, promotion. Price Price for the organic products and services will be moderate. It should be contingent that could be highly affordable by every customer. Product Our food truck“Health on wheel”will offer the various organic products which is for health conscious people. Organic product includes Protein shakes, different types of salads, fruit juice, other organic foods. Place The target place for food truck will be gym, schools, universities, MNCs, parks, old age homes, fitness centers, hostels, hospitals where people were found very conscious towards their health. Promotions For promotion of“Health on wheel” swill be done by various pamphlets and word of mouth. Apart from these newspapers, social media platform, advertisements in TV, Radio stations also done for promotion of food truck. STP segmentation – it is very important tool to segment the market as it help the organisation to achieve the desired goals and objectives. Target – it is important to target the customers so that to increase sales . Positioning – it is the most important tool which gives us complete clarity about the market. 9
Operational plan location and facilities The movable restaurant of food truck basically for the health conscious people. It will provide the facility or organic food and services (Ghezzi and et.al., 2015). The 3 truck will start from the Abbott Road at 8:30 am and will reach at gym, fitness centers, parks at sharp 9:30 am. It will provide services till 8:30 pm. At 12 o'clock it will reach near MNC's, hostels, hospitals where there is large demand for the organic food. The truck will provide the breakfast, lunch, as well as dinner on to the fix time. Daily operation and productions It will be open 6 days for the breakfast lunch and dinner requiring multiple shifts. Owner of truck will write schedule and in such way that will permit quality to increase or decrease hourly labor accounting to sales volume in order to maintain labor cost control. The operational check list will be handled by another partner in order to verify that every working shift has been properly prepared and to insure that functional regulation are preceded, during and after work shifts. Time schedule Monday9:30 am to 8:30 pm Tuesday9:30 am to 8:30 pm Wednesday9:30 am to 8:30 pm Thursday9:30 am to 8:30 pm Friday9:30 am to 8:30 pm Saturday9:30 am to 8:30 pm Note:Time for Sunday will be 9:30 am to 11:30 am at gym, parks and fitness centers. P.4 Assessing skills and capabilities required to launch a new venture Following are the skills which are required to launch a new business: 1.Resiliency:It is a skill which very entrepreneur must have at the time of launching the business. It includes ups and downs which are the part of venture. Owner must be enough resilient when the outlook is bleak (Cantos Díaz, 2016). 10
2.Focus: To get closer to the ultimate goal or to knowing focus of venture must be in mind of entrepreneur for its venture (Brady and Devitt,2016). When the owner will try to build the venture there will lots of distracting forces. Therefore, an entrepreneur must have a strict focus towards its business. 3.Invest for long term:Every entrepreneur must need to stop, pause and plan on the quarterly basis. They need to work for a long term so they can easily come to know what the business needs. 4.Find and mange people:In a competitive environment it is very difficult to find correct people for venture (Bloem and et.al., 2017). It requires lots of shortlisting and skills oriented human resource staff for selection of good people. And to manage people it is very important to have sound knowledge about internal environment of venture. 5.Self-reliance:in the end entrepreneur must have to be resourceful enough to depend on themselves. 6.Learn: a good and successful entrepreneur knows about himself that do not know everything. Market is dynamic it must take learning from changing market. 7.Self-reflection:Permit downtime to reflect on past and plan for future. TASK 3 P.5 Explaining different promotional activities and channels for the launch of the new venture Different promotional activities and channels for the promotion of“Health on wheel”are listed under - Advertising Advertising ispromoting the venture by paying (Becker-Blease and Sohl, 2015). It is paid form of marketing which is done by an identified sponsor. Advertising includes radio, mass media, television and magazines etc. it also includes the online banner, adds to target the individuals related with social media sites. Public relations In this promotional activity in whichrelation is to be created betweengoodwill of the restaurants and target public (Bauer and Green Seas Venture, 2018).It is an unpaid activity which Can be used by the organization Personal selling 11
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To develop relationship among target market for purpose of selling products and services method of personal selling is used. Sales promotion Sales promotion includes various marketing activities to attract customers. Its main aim is to boost the sales by various exciting offers like 10 % discount offer or combo offer, or by one get one free etc. Direct marketing Direct marketing method includes the selling of goods and services directly rather to have any retailer in between. Telemarketing, mailed brochures, or Catalogs and television home shopping channels are some tools which is used for the direct marketing. Marketing with help of email and phone will also use as a tool tools for direct marketing (Bala Subrahmanya, 2017). Digital marketing This is way of doing promotion with the help of digital platform like websites by search engine optimization, social media marketing. Word of mouth It is technique of marketing which includes the marketing by speaking. It is done mainly with the friends, relatives colleagues etc. Therefore, for“Health on wheel”, the best promotional activities which should be adopted are advertising, personal selling, direct marketing, and word of mouth. Owner will choose these four promotional activities because they are cheap ways of promoting the food truck (Ambat and et.al., 2017). As to earn the profit and increase sales it is very important to take sources which is relatively cheaper than other. P.6 Developing an appropriate promotional activities plan for both launch and pre-launch of the venture Following are the pre-launch promotional activity of the food truck ACTIVITIESDESCRIPTION Advertisements in the NewspapersBefore launching food truck advertisements should be done in various newspapers. So that people should becameaware about the“Health on wheel”food truck. 12
Banners and pamphletsBanners with attractive design should be hanged on various target places like gym, parks, fitness centers etc. Word of mouthPromotion should be done with the word of mouth with relatives, neighbors, friends etc. Following are activities to be planned for launch of“Health on wheel” ACTIVITIESDESCRIPTION Visit companies in your neighborhoodIn the city there resides various companies that are surroundingareconsistedofvariouspotential customers, especially during lunch hour. It is very importantforfreshstarttotargetvarious multinational companies and plan to visit them. Respond to online reviewsDaily observation on the official page of“Health on wheel”willhelptoidentifyandunderstandthe customers'needandpreferences(Alvarez‐Garrido and Dushnitsky, 2016). Offer couponsVarious types of offer coupons must be given to customer so that they can get attracted towards food truck. Like discount offer, by 1 get 1 free etc. Create a happy hourOnce in a week“Health on wheel”must offer happy hour so that customer gets attracted with exciting offers and enjoy the healthy meal. Ask question with customersAsk questions with customers in order to engage them. It is very beneficial as one can take feedback from customer to know their needs and preferences. TASK 4 P.7 Producing an itemised monthly cash budget for the venture. Forecasted cash flow for 18 months 13
forecast cash flow particula rs Init ial inv est me nt (in £) Jan uar y (in £) Fe bru ary (in £) Ma rch (in £) Ap ril (in £) Ma y (in £) Ju ne (in £) Jul y (in £) Au gus t (in £) Sep te mb er (in £) Oct obe r (in £) No ve mb er (in £) De ce mb er (in £) Jan uar y (in £) Fe bru ary (in £) Ma rch (in £) Ap ril (in £) Ma y (in £) Ju ne (in £) product Foo d Foo d Foo d Foo d Foo d Foo d Foo d Foo d Foo d Foo d Foo d Foo d Foo d Foo d Foo d Foo d Foo d Foo d Total number of consumer served 130 0 150 0 180 0 205 0 210 0 223 0 235 0 260 0 270 0 325 0 330 0 340 0 310 0 270 0 320 0 350 0 397 0 400 0 Average selling price2.52.52.52.52.52.52.52.52.52.52.52.52.52.52.52.52.52.5 Revenue through food 325 0 375 0 450 0 512 5 525 0 557 5 587 5 650 0 675 0 812 5 825 0 850 0 775 0 675 0 800 0 875 0 992 5 100 00 change in % of sales 15. 38 % 20. 00 % 13. 89 % 2.4 4% 6.1 9% 5.3 8% 10. 64 % 3.8 5% 20. 37 % 1.5 4% 3.0 3% - 8.8 2% - 12. 90 % 18. 52 % 9.3 8% 13. 43 % 0.7 6% product Be ver age Be ver age Be ver age Be ver age Be ver age Be ver age Be ver age Be ver age Be ver age Be ver age Be ver age Be ver age Be ver age Be ver age Be ver age Be ver age Be ver age Be ver age 14
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material machinery199200150001000000200000000327 equipment1500001500002590002300002300 traveling expenses450410300359320200280300360280210360400440360440360351 total cash outflows 234 9 218 0 206 0 198 9 212 0 197 0 197 0 201 0 234 9 203 0 209 0 194 0 243 0 229 0 223 0 234 0 252 0 262 8 net cash flow 615 1 699 5 804 0 901 6 908 0 973 0 102 05 110 70 113 66 131 65 128 10 134 20 158 20 150 30 173 20 195 35 207 05 213 72 capital investmen t 350 000 opening balance of cash flow 350 000 350 000 356 151 363 146 371 186 380 202 389 282 399 012 409 217 420 287 431 653 444 818 457 628 471 048 486 868 501 898 519 218 538 753 559 458 closing balance of cash flow 350 000 356 151 363 146 371 186 380 202 389 282 399 012 409 217 420 287 431 653 444 818 457 628 471 048 486 868 501 898 519 218 538 753 559 458 580 830 P8.Suggest an appropriate legal form for the venture, stating why it has been chosen for your organization There are four main legal form of the business venture Form of ventureDescription Sole proprietorshipTo organize a business, it is the easiest form of venture. In this the business is owned by the owner itself.Owner is liable for losses and 16
gains ofcompany (Wolfe and et.al., 2014). Partnership firmIt is easy to form and run. In partnership, the partners were liable to report their share for profit and loss to their personal tax return. It is a type of venture when two or more persons combines together, become partners in order to launch a business. CorporationIn this the shareholders are provided with the stock in a new business. It is fully independent businessthatismadeupofmultiple shareholders. Limited liability companyIt is a business which is blend with the sole proprietorship and a corporation. In LLC there are members who take care of daily business operations. Nonprofit organizationsThese are those organizations which do not work for the profit earning. These are basically intendedtoprovideaneducationanda charitable purpose. Therefore, for the“Health on wheel”,the partnership venture is best because the 3 friends are launching business of food truck in the partnership. Three of them have contributed equal amount of capital for the food truck and are liable in sharing of profit as well as loss. CONCLUSION From the present report it can be concluded that the businesses plan to launch an organic food truck seems to be very successful startup. The present report has provided all necessary information which is required for perfect business plan. The report has presented the overall concept of business with legal bindings. report is consisted of forecasted budget which helps in providing appropriate estimation of plan to launch a business. 17
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