Cooking Oil Filtering Service Business Plan
Cooking Oil Filtering Service Business Plan
Cooking Oil Filtering Service Business Plan Overview
This is a Cooking Oil Filtering Service Business Plan to the standard Cooking Oil Filtering Service Business.
A cooking oil filter removes impurities from cooking oil, making it cleaner and reusable a couple of more times. To accomplish this the oil is passed through a series of filters under high pressure. A number of 4 and 5 star hotels have their own cooking oil filters. And very few of the fast food and walk in restaurants have them. (In a sample of 67 fast food restaurants and cafes in Nairobi, Machakos and Nakuru only 6 had filters of sorts.)
The reasons many of the hotels don’t have cooking oil filters is one because of lack of information that such filters exist. Two until 2010 no one was selling any advanced filters in Kenya, at least not in a big way. The filters are not marketed intensively thus uptake is low. Three cost barriers. Four skepticism about the effectiveness of the filters, and the associated cost savings. Some of the restaurant owners are doubtful even without trying the filters out.
Where to Purchase Cooking Oil Filter in Kenya
Cooking oil filters can be purchased from selected kitchen equipment suppliers. However its common to be told the filters are out of stock. A leading cooking oil filter brand in the world is VITO which is made in Germany. Locally it’s distributed by ASL, a division of Ramco Group who seem to be the only company actively promoting cooking oil filters.
You are sure to get a filter there. The device is portable. You plug it into an electrical socket then insert the filter into the deep fryer, switch on and within 5 to 20 minutes the oil is cleaned. Its advisable, though not compulsory, to filter the oil at high temporaries so that all of the dissolved fats from the cooking process are suspended and thus filtered
Can a Cooking Oil Filtering Service Business become a feasible ?
This kind of service would involve going to a restaurant and filtering the dirty used cooking oil. The restaurant pays you for the filtering then reuse the now clean oil several more times before it becomes completely unusable. Whether such a service can become a feasible business will depend on a number of factors.
Target Market of Cooking Oil Filtering Service Business
The main target for this kind of business would be small and medium sized fast foods and restaurants. These consume between 5 liters and 20 liters in a day. They reuse oil 4 to 10 times before changing. The amount of oil a restaurant uses and reuses is tied the size, how busy it is customer base /class and internal standards.
Filtering extends the life of the oil. Filtered oil will be reusable 3 to 5 times depending on the standards of the hotel. This would mean savings of about 20% to 40 %.
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