Ready to take your food business to the next level?

You’re in the right place.

Since 2008, we’ve gathered the insider tips, tricks, and best practices you need to reframe your challenges and set up a successful food business.

We help clients at all levels of food business—maybe you’ve been in your food business a few years and you’re ready to streamline and improve your profitability, or perhaps you’re fairly new to it and don’t have a solid business plan. Or maybe you have a brilliant foodie idea but you want to know how to actually get started. Whichever is the case, we know you’ll need a community to bring it to life.

We’ve got all the ingredients for your success right here.

How we help

With an arsenal of past food business clients, we’ve got lots of stories, and the knowledge and network to help you avoid those costly business pitfalls along the way to get your business off the ground.

Information Sessions

Our Recipe to Retail information session will help you navigate the typical food business pathway, understand compliance, and more!

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Signature Program

Our Ignite Food Passions business pre-accelerator program - a structured and inclusive 6-week program to help you scale your food business profitably

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Networking Events

Join our community in the Food Focused Network. Join us each month for a lunchtime of delicious eats and networking with others!

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“We got everything we needed to know from the course and would have changed nothing. We felt supported to work through the struggles we were having with setting up a food business, especially the regulations and food safety program. Also learnt ways to do things in a way that saves money!”
Andre, participant
“I sought assistance from The Business of Food team to launch my BBQ sauce business in 2018. Their expertise helped me to understand my target market, effectively utilize a commercial kitchen, prepare a business plan, define my marketing objectives and ensure I met critical industry requirements. Without that knowledge and expertise, I would not have been able to adequately prepare my business for launch. As a result of specialised coaching and mentoring, I felt capable and competent to enter an industry of which I had no prior knowledge. My business is now going from strength to strength and I could not have achieved this without help.”
Sarah, sauce company
“Jane Del Rosso was amazing. She is a fantastic facilitator. Jane has great skills and knowledge. Extra sessions to see her outside of the course were really helpful– they personalised the Program to my business idea and let all the participants address any other issues they had. The Program is perfect for someone starting a food business as it covers all the basics.”
Loredana, stock business
“For anyone starting a small food business, with no experience in the food sector, it would be essential as a real eye opener to what is required especially the regulations, laws, pricing and different ways you can launch a product/sell it.”
Marcela, ice cream business
“Jane Del Rosso as a person is so pleasant to talk to and easy-going to work with. She understands everyone has different views, and she has a lot of patience as she delivers the course and works individually with each participant, supporting people to view their business in a different way-- such is a positive challenge as a business owner!!”
-Issy, vanilla business

We’re delivering food business coaching across Melbourne and Australia.

Your success stories are our success stories.

Here’s a taste of some of our work.

Case Studies

Dumplings

Meal providers

Over the years we've had many producers of meals cross our kitchen threshold, but not many have stood the test of time and found a market that is sustainable over a period of more than 4 years. This case study is a common story and a conglomeration of several businesses.

They Come from all Walks of Life...

Mums, Chefs, IT professionals, marketing gurus, corporate escapees - these are just some of the people building their business and achieving their dreams in a kitchen incubator. Here are some of their stories:

Interview with Arepeland

Arepaland was born as an idea from a group of Venezuelan friends living in Australia for more than 20 years.

Interview with MINJUMS

Since I was at University, I dreamed of developing a unique product and having my own food company one day. After working in the Food Industry for more than 15 years, it strengthened the passion that I have of mixing ingredients and coming up with something unique and delicious. It was time to start my own food business.

Interview with the Wondersnack Co.

A few years ago as a snack-o-holic, I was feeling underwhelmed by the selection of savoury snacks in the market, which were either plain and uninspiring, or full of commercial additives masquerading as ingredients. Having trained and worked as a pastry cook, I thought that I could do better, and sought out to do just that. A few months later The Wondersnack Co. was born.

Interview with Raw Sip

I migrated to Australia from Sri Lanka when I was 20, for my social work studies. I’m a huge fan of exotic food and beverages and sharing my experiences with others. I got excited when I found an exotic fruit called wood apple which mainly grows in South East Asia – then I discovered the health benefits of the wood apple fruit and its unique flavour.

Interview with alg Seaweed

In my private practice as a dietician I saw a high prevalence of clients with thyroid problems, mild iodine deficiency and a lack of knowledge about seaweed and its applications.

Interview with Glovely Gelato (now Good Vibes)

I wanted to improve my health and also my family’s health. So I began researching food’s link to gut health and inflammation and started fermenting in my home kitchen.

Interview with LEAP Protein

I became a vegetarian as a teenager and became fascinated with health and nutrition and how food affects our bodies. I found myself malnourished, but seeking a diet that aligned with my environmental values, yet still gave me the healthy essential nutrients I needed. Then I had the LEAP Epiphany.

Interview with Damn Good Sauce

On a trip to America, our friend Carl introduced us to one of his favourite BBQ sauces. Blown away by its complexity and depth of flavour, we set out to make our own. After many nights, batches, beers and BBQs testing our creations, we knew we had something special when our friends kept on saying "Damn, that’s good."

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Last chance to book your place at the table!

If you work in (or with) the food industry, we'd love you to join us at our Food Focus Network monthly meetup this Wednesday in Dandenong. It's a casual affair that brings together food people over a lig

Have you realised there are only two Wednesdays left to experience the Queen Victoria Markets Winter Night Market ... check out the food and drink lineup and plan your dinner options! (Photo is from the archives and that's a big pot of dairy and glut

It certainly feels as if Melbourne is in the grip of Winter! With the Gluten Free Expo scheduled for October, September is proving to be a bit quiet - at least until Spring Carnival, the big footy match, and range reviews for smaller retailers come o

Looking for some help and direction in your food business? Join us at the next FREE Recipe to Retail session where we'll walk you through a typical food business journey and identify a strategy to manage the most common roadblocks. Register on our we

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