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The subject matter of your recipe must be patentable. How much does it cost to get a recipe patent? That is something that, of course, a lot of you who are just starting a food business may or may not have the budgets for. In this video, we're gonna cover those four specific things that you need to cut in place. Most recipes will qualify as subject matter because they contain ingredients and a method is employed to prepare them.

The criteria for uniqueness for recipes merely means that the recipe is brand new. If someone else has already patented or published the recipe, precisely as you produced it, it may not actually qualify for a patent. The US Patent and Trademark Office will consider a recipe published or quote unquote disclose and no longer patentable. If your recipe differs in any way from what has already been published, this is actually good news for you. But again, seek out specific legal advice from a patent lawyer.

You must show the patent office that your recipe was not evident at the time you actually filed your patent application. A standard of an average person in the field of the invention is used to assess the recipe. The more components you utilize, the more likely you are to be able to get a patent for your recipe. Can you patent a recipe, Damian? Yes you can.

It's kind of really up to you, but it's not necessary in order for you to have some type of legal protection. And some food recipes you can actually get done anywhere from about 2000 up to about five or $8,000. I personally would say, don't worry about it and don't do it if you don't necessarily need to, just because of the cost. But the idea of proving all of those things that I just talked about is challenging.

Do you need a license to sell spices? Cottage food laws come into play when you're selling food from home. Most all of the states in the U.S. allow you to do spices because they're a low product that doesn't have a lot of potentially hazardous materials. If you're doing it from home, you don't have to go out and get a commercial facility, get all these different licenses and insurances, have inspections. Some of them, this is where it gets a little tricky, some of them will require a business license and a home inspection or an approval of some kind and a license to operate it.

When you get into a commercial building, if it happens to be a food facility, you've got to have that license. Also make sure you have insurance, business insurance, for a commercial food facility. Licenses, sales tax-exempt, and any other licensing. You need to make sure that you have that sales tax exemption so you can show the business that you're buying ingredients from. When you sell it, you have to collect the sales tax and then you gotta remit that.

You must also have a business license to operate your business. If you are selling spices, the Department of Agriculture would fall in line with that. Permits, licenses, inspections, everything about what I just said have to be renewed annually. Make sure, of course, that you are keeping up to these annual renewals.

Damian Roberti, founder and CEO of Marketing Food. How do you calculate the selling price of food and how much should I mark up food, when I sell it online? It's actually through Shopify. I'm gonna show you a huge resource on how to sell food on Shopify and figuring out exactly the calculating price, for your food. Shopify is a fantastic platform by the way, to sell food of any kind.

If you're looking to sell cupcakes, baked goods, cottage food from home, you can even tap into Shopify. And again, if you want to check out, they have a 14 day free trial. The average selling amount for us on our platforms is between around 28 to 32, $35. There's a reason, as I just mentioned, you wanna make sure that you making enough money on each transaction. One of the best ways to increase a per transaction amount is through bundling.

When it comes to specialty food products, it's not, there's some products that we make that cost us around 2.25, 2.50, we charge 24.99 for, and let's just say that was that. So, we make around $20 per unit of that particular product because we make it to order.

All right. So how do you calculate the selling price of food and how much should I mark food when I sell it, Damian, these are two great questions I got from some subscribers and we're going to go over those two subscriber questions. I'm going to show you a huge resource if you're not familiar with Shopify on how to sell food on Shopify and figuring out exactly the calculating price for your food. We're going to dive into that right now.HERE IS THE LINK TO SHOPIFY CALCULATOR: All right. So welcome back to marketing foot online. So if this...

Home-Based business tax deductions, 2021 for cottage food businesses. Mortgage or rent, if you're renting or even have a mortgage, can actually be written off as a tax expense or tax deduction. If you are starting a food business from home, and we're going to get into that 20 right now. Some states cottage food businesses do not need permits or licenses to operate. A portion of the square footage in your kitchen, if you're operating a food business from there, can be used as a tax deduction.

Your phone and internet as a utility can be a deduction for your home-based business. I highly recommend that you create an LLC. You're still going to open yourself up to liability issues. If somebody were to have an allergic reaction or get sick, you personally could be held liable for that. Some states don't require permits or licenses, but some actually do.

Printing services, whether it's a business card or leaflet, all of that printing services, you need to keep a receipt because that is a tax deduction. Next up number nine is going to be labels. The food packaging that you're paying for, if you're buying online or in a local store, keep your receipts. Many states allow you to sell products online, but you have to deliver them locally. If you're having a website developed for you, you need to keep your receipts.

You also need to have hosting, which can add up to $600 just to have a website online. Fees for advertising, online courses, books, periodicals and other items that can better you for your business are tax deductions. The IRS allows you to write off a certain amount of miles based on your business. If you have a business credit card dedicated to your cottage food business from home, you have the opportunity to take that interest and check into that and bring it up to your accountant. Any gas that you put in your vehicle, you need to keep receipts for it.

That is being used for your business. If you get a website, you have to have. what's called a domain name in order for you to register the. domain name and obviously have it annually. If you are looking for some great tax deductions under cottage food laws, or creating some type of food business from home, keep these in mind and of course, write them down. If this was a helpful video, please do give us a big thumbs up and I'll see you on our next video.