LESS CHAOS. STRONGER SYSTEMS. LASTING GROWTH.
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About
Most food pop-up owners don't have a business problem; they have a systems problem. If every event depends on you remembering every detail, answering every question, packing every box, and solving every problem, you've built a job instead of a business. While that may work in the beginning, it's nearly impossible to grow, train a team, or operate multiple locations without clear systems in place. Stop Running Your Pop-Up Food Business the Hard Way is one of the first ebooks dedicated specifically to teaching food pop-up owners how to systemize their businesses and prepare them to scale.
In Stop Running Your Pop-Up Food Business the Hard Way, Leslie Colbert shares the practical systems she has developed through 10+ years of experience in the food pop-up industry. Inside, you'll learn how to organize your operations, create repeatable procedures, train employees with confidence, reduce costly mistakes, and build a business that's prepared to scale.
Inside You'll Get:
✓ Bonus Pages & Resources
✓ Free, Ready-to-Use Templates
✓ SOPs & Standardized Procedures
✓ Event-Day Checklists
✓ Staff Training & Delegation Tools
✓ Recipe & Prep Sheets
✓ Inventory & Restocking Systems
✓ Packing, Setup & Breakdown Checklists
✓ Team Role Guides
✓ Tips & Tricks From a Real Pop-Up Business
✓ Systems Designed to Help You Scale
✓ Mistakes to Avoid & Lessons Learned
✓ Strategies to Build a Business That Can Run Without You
About the Author
Leslie Colbert is the founder and owner of Shmookies, a smoothie pop-up business dedicated to making healthy eating enjoyable with smoothies that taste like milkshakes. In this book, Leslie combines her faith and an entrepreneurial mindset with over a decade of hands-on experience in the food pop-up industry. For 10 years, Leslie worked alongside her grandparents at Colbert's Southern Gourmet Food, gaining firsthand experience in every aspect of running a successful food business—from setting up and serving customers to operating behind the scenes. That foundation, combined with building Shmookies from the ground up, has given her practical insight into what it really takes to run a food pop-up efficiently. Passionate about helping other entrepreneurs succeed, Leslie shares the systems, processes, and lessons she's learned so other food vendors can spend less time putting out fires and more time building businesses that are organized, scalable, and built to last.
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I BUILT THIS FOR YOU IF
You own a food or drink pop-up business and want to grow beyond doing everything yourself.
You are tired of repeating the same instructions to your team at every event.
You struggle with forgotten supplies, disorganized setups, or inconsistent operations.
You want to create clear systems and SOPs for how your pop-up operates.
You have built a successful pop-up, but now you are wondering, “How do I actually prepare to scale this?”
You want to eventually operate multiple tents, carts, markets, or locations.
You are ready to stop simply working inside your pop-up and start building a business that can operate beyond you.
You built the pop-up. Now it is time to build the systems behind it
Q & A
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Nope! This e-book is excellent for those just starting and those who’ve been in the business.
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This e-book is perfect for food pop up business owners looking to get more organized, save time, and build systems that allow their business to operate beyond them.
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You'll learn how to organize your operations, create SOPs, standardize your products, delegate responsibilities, train your team, prepare for events, manage inventory, and build repeatable systems that make your business easier to run.
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Yes! The templates are designed to give you a starting point that you can customize around your menu, team, workflow, and business model.
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That's the goal behind the systems taught in the ebook: creating repeatable processes that make it possible to delegate responsibilities and reduce your business's dependence on you.