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2/09/2011

Sandwich Shop



Sandwich is one of the most popular and most favorite snacks all over the world. It is also one of the most sellable snacks prompting the emergence of popular sandwich shops like Subway and Pret a Manger. Even McDonalds now offers sandwiches to their clients. Starting a sandwich shop is therefore a good idea especially in places where there are few or no sandwich shops available.

More than just selling sandwiches

Operating a sandwich shop business will of course require you to offer great tasting sandwiches to your clients. It is a good idea to offer your clients different varieties of sandwiches so your clients can taste one sandwich recipe at a time when they visit your sandwich shop. Operating sandwich shops, however, will not only have you selling sandwiches. Your clients, for example, will also look for soft drinks or sweets when they visit your sandwich shop so make sure that you have adequate stocks of soft drinks and fruit juices that you can offer your clients when they dine in your sandwich shop. In addition to beverages, you might also like to offer your sandwich shop business customers bread rolls, soups and even desserts. Just make sure that you assess the sales of these goods so you will be able to identify if selling more than just sandwiches and beverages in your sandwich shop business is feasible or not.

Getting Customers and Increasing Sales

If you want to operate a successful sandwich shop, it is a must that you choose a good location for your sandwich shop. Choose areas where there are adequate number of people who will buy or dine in your sandwich shop. The best places include near schools and universities. Increasing the sales of your sandwich shop, on the other hand, will depend on the sandwich shop business products that you sell and the kind of customer service that you offer to your clients. Make sure that you ask for feedbacks from your sandwich shop customers so you will know if your sandwich recipes need improvement and to know what areas of services you need improvement on. Being able to know the deficiencies of your sandwich business and receiving suggestions and comments from your customers can prove to be very helpful in boosting the growth of your sandwich shop.
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Fish Shop




Types of fishes
Before you start your fish shop business, it is important to figure out first what kind of fishes and fish aquarium and pond accessories are you going to focus on. Is it going to be for fresh water fishes or for saltwater fishes?

Salt water fishes, like its name suggest, are fishes that live in the sea like clown fish, angel fish, cardinals, etc. They are more expensive to buy and take care of than that of the fresh water type. Caring for these fishes require that the tank or aquarium that closely mirrors the water environment of their sea home. However, specialty shops have been breeding salt water fishes for some time now and fishes that are breed are mostly more tolerant to makeshift habitat.

Fresh water fishes are those that naturally live in the river or lake such as gold fish, koi, catfish, etc. These are more tolerant than salt water fishes and they are easier to take care of either in an aquarium or in a pond. Fresh water fishes may be a good place to start for an entrepreneur just entering into this kind of business.

Other item to sell
Aside from fishes, there are a lot of accessories that fish shop owners should make sure available in their shop. Especially those items needed for a start-up aquarium.

Some of the important ones are:
*aquariums and stand
*filtration equipment
*Heating, lighting and hoods
*Tank and pond decors
*Books on aquariums, pond and fishes
*Fish food
*Water conditioner
*Test kit: ammonia, nitrate, pH
*Fish net

Notes:
People interested to start an aquarium but do not have any idea where to start or those already into this hobby for quite sometime already, will go to your store to look, shop, meet others with the same interest or just talk to the shop owner for updates on the latest on fishes. Be sure to update yourself always as you would not want to disappoint your customers.
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