Want To Start A Food Or Beverage Business?

Asbury Park – Entrepreneurs looking to launch a food or beverage business have an opportunity to sign up for Rutgers University Food Innovation Center’s Food Business Basics Seminar from noon to 4 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 16 at The ShowRoom Cinema.

The unique and popular course covers critical aspects of bringing a packaged product to market and can lead to acceptance into a new Food Entrepreneur Program to make an individual’s plan for a food business a realty.

Interfaith Neighbors Business Development Center in Asbury Park has partnered with the Rutgers group and Monmouth Score to create the program which will include a series of free business workshops for teams of entrepreneurs to create their food product concepts.

Successful entrepreneurs will next work with staff experts at the Rutgers Food Innovation Center to get their food or beverage product onto marketplace shelves. Interfaith Neighbors will provide low interest rate loans.

Dean Nelson of Dean’s Natural Food Market has signed on to offer his 20 years of experience in the food business as well as to have his stores in Ocean Township, Shrewsbury, Basking Ridge and Chester be a platform for entrepreneurs developing natural products providing they meet Dean’s ingredient criteria.

The Nov. 16 course costs $15. Participants learn the most important aspects of getting a product to market, current consumer trends, food technology, food safety and product commercialization.

To register, go to: http://www.businessdevcenter.org/foodbusinessbasics/