 get another food business idea. This idea is only for those who are passionate about cooking and want to monetize their skills by hosting people to their food. So today's idea is that of starting a home food pop-up. The concept of food pop-ups is simple. It's a form of social dining where you invite five to eight unknown people to your home to give them a taste of your culture. You do this by serving them an authentic regional multi course meal. So all that you have to do is put together a menu of the various food items or dishes that are unique to your culture and start cooking. To begin with, you don't even have to give up your job to start a food pop-up because home pop-ups typically attract diners during weekends when people are free to eat them. Of course, once your food gets famous and you start hosting pop-ups outdoors, you can do it full-time. For an easy start, we suggest that you enlist on the websites of platforms such as Authenticook and EatWithIndia that connect people looking for local food experiences to those who host pop-ups. These platforms will handle marketing and payments for you and there is absolutely no charge for operating on them. They charge diners by marketing up the price of meals but they don't cut any commission from the host. The pricing decision of your meals will also rest with you. In fact, an executive will help you to determine the right price for your meal on the basis of the previous demand feedback received from guests for similar meal experience. Another upside of tying up with such platforms is that they give an option of hosting cooking classes and the platforms keep organizing pop-up events in embassies, hotels, etc. All such options will not only give you a chance to showcase your culinary skills to a larger audience but also make more money. In starting a pop-up, you won't fill the pinch of initial investment at all because costs are minimal. You only have to shell out a one-time cost of cooking 8-10,000 on cutlery, preparation and other things required for cooking and you are good to go. Your recurring expense will comprise of groceries and an assistance for cleaning which will cost you around Rs. 400-500 per diner. To put together earnings potential, you should first understand the pricing of pop-up meals which are just as expensive as fine dining restaurants. A standard vegetarian meal with 5-6 items is priced above Rs. 1200 while a lighter meal with snacks is Rs. 500-600. Don vegetarian options are priced higher by another Rs. 150-500. All these figures do not include the market fee charged by platforms so these prices are essentially what you will earn. Besides serving meals, you can also host cooking lessons which are priced between Rs. 2000 and Rs. 4000 per head. So to give you a ballpark figure, if you are able to host 30 people in a month and give 2 cooking classes, you will easily earn Rs. 27,000 to Rs. 32,000 per month and this is after removing all the costs and fees incurred by you. Of course, your earning will vary as per the city you are located in. Hosts in cosmopolitan metros such as Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore stand to get more visitors compared with smaller cities. So that's about Home Put Pop-Up. Hope you liked the idea and for more such ideas, log on to www.entrepreneur.com Thank you.