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I could not disagree more. It’s stupid simple to do I’m Washington. It’s a $30 application. it could not be easier. My experience with selling to people was incredibly demotivating. The number of crazy “Karen’s” that you get is insane. The amount of time and effort you have to do for minimal return is very demotivating. if you get pleasure from providing to the neighbors my advice would be just to give them the eggs every now and then. It’s not worth the potential fallout from selling them a dozen eggs every week or so. Selling to neighbors is a nightmare. You have a whole lot of leg work for very little return (unless you can find someone that will buy them all). The drama and fuss is just not worth it.Yeah that’s great and all but it depends on where you live. License fees, permit fees, how many chickens you have, if a restaurant would even buy eggs from a local backyard chicken owner.
Sure it might be easy for you, because you tried the selling to whoever wants them, but everyone has to start somewhere. And IMO, jumping right into selling to a restaurant before selling to neighbors and getting the feel to what works best for selling first, isn’t the way to go.
Some states require you to label every single carton with dates, egg size, nutritional value etc.
Maybe it’s just me but i’d rather sell to local people and keep it under the radar than selling to a restaurant. As you and the restaurant could probably get in trouble if your eggs don’t meet state laws.
call your restaurants and see what they want. they will be very upfront, from minimum quantities, expectations of eggs, pricing etc. Typicaly commercial sales expect a 30 to 40 percent discount. They also have expectations on when and how the eggs are delivered. For us they want it in food grade plastic egg crates with a minimum of 75 eggs a week delivered every Thursday. We invoice monthly and gets paid on 30 days.
I would recommend looking for a local dining or speciality restaurant. You are not looking for MC Donald’s here. You are looking sir something local that wants local eggs.
if you try keep it under the radar your consequences are worse. Just follow the rules. It’s not hard.