Are you an aspiring entrepreneur or food business owner? If so, the 4Lunch business blog is the place to read honest, warts and all articles about what it's like to be your own boss and run a small food business. As well as cooking, I love to write. And...
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We've been in conversation with Hannah, serial social entrepreneur and creator of beautiful cafe spaces, to talk about how she started not just one, but two community cafes in Manchester. Hannah is the brains behind both Home Community Cafe in Didsbury and Milk & Honey Cafe...
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We have a finite amount of time, energy and money to spend each day, and starting a social enterprise will be a drain on all three resources. When I started 4Lunch, I unintentionally started to adopt a minimalist approach to life and work in order to...
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Resilience is not a quality some people are born with and some not. The creative, entrepreneurial process requires a relentless commitment to solving complex problems and resilience must be learned. Resilience is developed by applying consistent effort, exerted day after day, over a long period of time....
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Working from home can be extremely liberating. No daily commute, no unnecessary meetings, and you can work in your pyjamas! But working from home can also be full of distractions and intensely lonely. As someone who works from home a lot, I've had to learn how to...
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Running your own business is notoriously hard work. You'll be required to work early mornings, late nights and weekends. It’s probably one of the most mentally demanding jobs you could choose. In order to be your own boss and have time for other aspects of life,...
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You can have all the knowledge in the world at your fingertips (and we do, thank you Google!), but if you don’t have the impetus to take action on your ideas, then you might as well forget about becoming a (social) entrepreneur. So what ignites that...
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There is no way of getting around this fact: the more you put out into the world, the more exposed you are going to be to the opinions of others. Creation comes at a cost. This is especially true for food entrepreneurs. It seems like everyone...
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We've been in conversation with Nam Tran, owner-operator of NAM, a Vietnamese street food restaurant, cocktail and audiophile bar based in Ancoats' Cutting Room Square. Many people dream about opening their own restaurant, so we got chatting to Nam to find out exactly how he...
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We've been in conversation with Jimmy, a veteran of the Manchester street food scene. With his food business Nasi Lemak, Jimmy has fed thousands of people throughout the region from a simple market stall. We hope you might feel inspired by this conversation to do the...
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