I am interested in doing a business selling fruit from a refrigerated van. All orders will be made online. Is there any license or council permission required to do this?
Thanks.
Legal Requirements for Business Delivering Fruit
BluebirdV on 17/12/2024 - 09:54
Last edited 17/12/2024 - 09:56
Last edited 17/12/2024 - 09:56
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It's like putting all your eg….fruits in one basket.
What, like pre cut and packaged serves? Or like.. trays/bulk roadside?
Boxes of fruit. Direct to door.
Contact Department of Fair Trading
Something like this:
https://business.gov.au/planning/industry-information/accomm…
and whatever Victoria and your local regs say…Do you have a Business Plan?
We are in Adelaide. Our plan is delivering fruit door to door. We already have a customer base online.
Our plan is delivering fruit door to door.
Best business plan, ever.
Do you have a Business Plan?
our plan is delivering fruit door to door
Case closed boys. This guys businesses.
Right… I'm in Adelaide too. (Although your Profile says Vic?)
That said, how will you make any money delivering (yourself) if UberEats already do it?
What about https://shop.adelaidecentralmarket.com.au ?
What are your SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats).
What is your projected Profit Margin?
Business Registration?
Company Structure?
Insurance?
Workcover?
Public Liability?Go and see: https://business.sa.gov.au
You should probably spend some time on Google, took me 5 seconds to find this - https://www.health.vic.gov.au/food-safety/starting-a-food-bu…
IMO it sounds a terrible idea for a business unless you have an incredibly strong business plan or market you know you can profit off. Dealing with suppliers, the losses from spoilage, customers returning/refusing to take anything that's not perfect, the level of cleaning, the demand for out of season produce and that you can't be price competitive makes it a nightmare. Dealing with all the rejected fruit will suck unless you're really into smoothies.
Op does say he’s got a customer base online which is a good start… but yeah, dealing with the spoilage would be unreal. There are some mobs that do fruit and vege delivery with focus on imperfect stock, like odd sizes or blemishes… but most stuff (like strawberries atm) got a super limited shelf life atm.
Partner with a charity / kitchen that can convert pre spoilage into something useful to feed people.
The imperfect stock thing is a bit misleading. They not saving food from from stock supermarkets are tossing but buying ugly stuff at lower prices. This food generally gets used anyway, in frozen food, prepackaged food, animal food, unless it has actually gone rotten at the farm or is excess to requirements across the whole market. If there's an extra few tonnes of mangoes it's really hard to just transport them to a country that's starving because they'll just rot on the way.
Most likely OP would need enough volume and to be of decent enough quality to send to ozharvest, or to recycle it.
Mates dad did this for 25-30years around Sydney in the 60's/80's off the back of a cheap old truck like this
https://club.shannons.com.au/club/enthusiasts/raygeorge/gara…Early mornings to the markets for a top up… He made a bomb out of it, nice waterfront house in the Shire etc. I never thought that many people would buy a whole box of fruit at a time…
Like most things these days, I reckon there would be too many rules and regulations to do anything like this these days to make a good living out of it.
many people would buy a whole box of fruit at a time…
I swear this is mostly an old people mentality
My dad and my FIL still go to the markets, ask to see the big man, and ask for best carton prices
It would depend how many people your feeding
box of oranges, nanas, onions, pears etc going to go off before you'd use em for the average family
Mates dad did this for 25-30years around Sydney in the 60's/80's
nice waterfront house in the Shire etc
To be fair, in the 80's and 90's those houses in the shire wouldn't have been much at all.
Coming from Melbourne, people who ran surprisingly profitable fruit stores in the 70s usually had a "side business".
Which, come to think of it, could be what OP is doing. No detail on business besides deliveries, already has an online client base and refrigerated van despite not having business setup… My guess it's either drugs, human flesh or breast milk.
The 1960's were a wonderful time.
Mum would stay home with the kids and usually didn't have use of the car. (A lot of women in their 20-30's around this time also never had a licence.)
Shopping was every Saturday (morning only) with Dad to help, or by public transport.
So a guy driving around the streets on a regular schedule selling fruit and veges was a viable occupation.
As was the milkman who left fresh milk on your doorstep every morning and the baker who delivered fresh bread just before midday every week day.
I can remember all of this.
And the shire was very expensive in those days, esp waterfront.
Good thing about those boxes of fruit/vegetables from markets is that you get some stuff you would never eat/cook.. Bad thing about those boxes of fruit/vegetables from markets is that you get some stuff you would never eat/cook
Surely the issue of regulatory requirements is so important your local authorities should be consulted to get a proper answer?
Call a competitor as a potential customer and ask what food licenses they have etc
You'reyour bananasYou need a horse named Billy. My Pop delivered fruit & veg door to door and his horse was named Billy.
In Adelaide, how will you compete against:
- Tony and Marks
- Fruit Box
- Central Market
- First Froots
And thats not including just local fruiterers that deliver or are more price competitive. I mean, you get one that gets straight from Virginia and Lenswood and no amount of fancy packaging is going to compensate for that price gap.
Its why people still drive to the Hills to buy a box of premium cherries for $25 gate side or half a cow direct at Dublin. 🤷♀️
atleast it's not MILK that OP is intending to transport !!!
(As Per) recent thread regarding temps of Milk.+++ fruit == differernt temps.
+++ what "types of fruit" ???Beans/shoots == around 6 degrees.
Tomatoes/etc == 8 degrees.
Melons (rockys) == 10 degrees.
Watermelons == 18 degrees.Several of original suppliers (who also eventually sell to majors) … these days - also have a remote thermometer in one of pallets.
So … can see where issues have gone wrong EXACTLY within the supply chain.@BluebirdV … since you are intending to be an "end" supplier - of mixed fruit that has been cut up/pre-prepared/etc … you'll need to target the lower temps (possibly 3 - 4 degrees).
Looking at "whole aspect" as to your business IDEAS (yet to hear about plan) …
think will be VERY work INTENSIVE (wages/warehouse/equipment/transport/etc) - without much actual $$$ at end of day …
unless going to charge an arm/leg (or subsidised by GOV initiatives ???).otherwise … IMO - would be targetting wholesale -> end customer (cutting out Coles/WW/Aldi) … this would eliminate (warehouse/wages/equipment) costs.
Selling said fruit by the "trays/ctn".Personally, that would be my way forward if I was you.
If you have a refrigerated van consider delivering higher value goods such as dead cows meat. They make better profit than fruits but the process is likely more stringent as well.
don't get insurance - so when you do get hit/hit someone, you can post about it on here for our entertainment