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Food & Beverage
Entrepreneurship in the UK
Many Hongkongers are thinking to start a food & beverage business in the UK to share their culinary creations with others. But even for those with previous hospitality experience, starting a restaurant from scratch can be a gigantic task. There are lots of legal processes and licensing law to contend with, and you’ll need to make plenty of important decisions about designing your menu, choosing your suppliers, marketing your business, too.
With the funding from the UK Government’s Hong Kong BN(O) Welcome Programme Regional VCSE Grant Scheme, Hong Kong Business Hub, partnering with The Food Works and a few food entrepreneurs from Hong Kong, is excited to launch the “Food & Beverage Entrepreneurship in the UK”, a comprehensive course that will cover entrepreneurship and starting a food and beverage business in the UK.
Course details
This course focuses on how to run and grow a successful food and beverage business in the UK. This will cover understanding the F&B industry and market trends, designing your products, evaluating competition, setting up operations, creating a brand, managing finance, legal requirements and licensing, running a company, etc. This will be a mix of online lectures, interactive live workshops and physical visit at restaurants.
Course dates
29 November 2022 - 22 February 2023
Language
Cantonese and English (with written Chinese materials)
Format
Online classes & physical visit
Fees
£100 (10% off for HKBH members)
Course schedule
Class duration: 1.5 - 2 hours/lesson
Lesson 1
29 Nov, 22 (Tue) 3pm
4 food entrepreneurs share their journey of starting a business in the UK, covering different models:
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Selling homemade food online
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Takeaway & dark kitchens
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Start a franchise restaurant
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Take over a restaurant
Lesson 4 - 5
4 Jan, 23 (Wed) 10am & 2pm
Business planning workshops:
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Present and pitch your business plan to lecturers and fellow classmates
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Receive questions, feedbacks and suggestions from others that allow you to revisit your plan from different perspectives
Lesson 8
1 Feb, 23 (Wed) 10am
Comply with UK laws:
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Rental of premises
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Licensing
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Employment legislation
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Accounting
Lesson 12
15 Feb, 23 (Wed) 10am
Visit Food Works and learn their:
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Operation procedure
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Kitchen equipment
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Environment & hygiene
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Food safety
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Natasha’s law (food allergy regulation)
Lesson 2
7 Dec, 22 (Wed) 10am
Overview of F&B market trend in the UK & start your own a market research:
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The industry
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Identify and know your target market
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SWOT analysis
Lesson 6
11 Jan, 23 (Wed) 10am
Your brand is the first thing that impress customers! Together, we will learn more about...
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Branding design
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Identify your target market
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Digital marketing
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Adaptation strategy
Lesson 9-10
8 Feb, 23 (Wed) 10am & 2pm
Marketing plan workshop:
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Present your marketing plan to lecturers and fellow classmates
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Receive questions, feedbacks and suggestions from others that allow you to revisit your plan from different perspectives
Lesson 3
14 Dec, 22 (Wed) 10am
Writing a business plan for your F&B business:
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Define your mission & vision
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Your business (business model, location, size, products and services, pricing strategy)
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Identify your USP
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Budgeting
Lesson 7
18 Jan, 23 (Wed) 10am
Products & services:
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Design your menu
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Pricing
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Design the customer journey
Lesson 11
15 Feb, 23 (Wed) 10am
Let’s get it started:
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Sourcing F&B ingredients suppliers
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Sourcing equipment
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Sourcing packaging materials
What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you’ll be able to…
✓ Understand the steps and legal requirements of starting a food & beverage business in the UK
✓ Develop and reflect on your own food & beverage business and marketing plan
✓ Establish a network with existing and upcoming food business owners in the UK
✓ Receive a certificate of completion if you have attend at least 80% of the course
Who will you learn with?
The Food Works
The Food WorksSW is a local dynamic food and drink innåovation centre, offering food-grade business units and development kitchens, plus hands-on food technical and specialist business support, sector-based training and networking, conference and room hire, together with a coffee shop and business lounge to help you and your ideas to thrive.
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Wing Chang
Wing Chang is a restaurateur who has ample of experience in the F&B industry in the UK. Owned two F&B operations, Wing worked his way up from the bottom to the top: from glass-washer, to General Manager, then to Business Owner.
Graduated from the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford and Le Cordon Blue, London, Wing keeps learning different skills, expanding his knowledge and meeting new people.
Wing thinks that it is now time for him to help people within the industry – sharing his skills, experience and knowledge. He considers seeing like minded people grow, and their businesses thrive a joy to him.
Eric, Trini
Eric is a tea master from Hong Kong. He blends tea leaves from different countries to make it a perfect recipe for milk tea. Upon moved to the UK, he founded Trini tea - bottled milk tea of different kinds! Started from a home kitchen, he now owns a shop inside a big Hong Kong supermarket. Eric will share with us - how we can start small in the UK from a home business and expands gradually. One of the best examples of lean startups!
KK
KK and his wife Isabella working non F&B in Hong Kong. KK was financial planner & Isabella was FMCG sales & marketing job. They moved to the UK 1.5 years ago.
As a foodie themselves, they decided to run a F&B business. With no previous experiences, they chose to enter a franchising agreement with a Korean style food business.
KK will share with us why he chose to be a franchisee, what are the benefits and what needs to note in his franchising journey.
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