Over the last few years, spanning almost a decade, Zimbabwe business opportunities have not spared weddings a potential and lucrative investment opportunity. From wedding gowns, wedding venues in Harare and the rest of Zimbabwe to wedding cakes, there has been a lot of activity enough to get me writing. People like Thembie have refused to settle and seized this opportunity and are smiling all the way to the bank. Thembie is the founder of Thembie’s Cooking Scool. Don’t run your spell check on me. Yes! Scool.
Today, I will bring to you, the one, the only, Thembie. Today, we are going to go A to Z on how you can establish a successful Wedding cakes business in Harare, Bulawayo, Mutare, Gweru or anywhere in Zimbabwe. Today you will learn Thembie’s successful Wedding cakes business and know why she is a mentor for hundreds of women in Zimbabwe who either bake for fun or business?
To Thembie
This is Ziminvestors.com. Welcome to The Ziminvestor files. For the record, this is the first audio interview I have made and the first to be available for downloading on this blog.
Hey, thanks Simba. I’m happy to be here.
We are looking at sustainable businesses here Thembie. The kind of businesses which will stand the test of time. I want to know how your work here can help aspiring entrepreneurs do that. I want you to help my followers establish just that not the fly by night kind of business. Thembie, my dime your dance flow. Tell me what you have.
I have recently branched from basic cooking to both baking and cooking. What I now have is the basic cooking program and the baking program. SO I have the basic cooking course were Iam offering five sessions. It mainly targets people who do not have confidence in the kitchen.  The five sessions include three cooking session’s. These basically cover basic cooking hygiene, starters, the main meal, desserts and general cooking. So over the three cooking lessons we cover beef, chicken and fish. We then have one session were I teach the very basics of baking.
To Thembie
Are we still on the cooking lessons?
Yes, that’s on the cooking side. I teach the basic basics of baking. On the basic baking lessons I will teach you how to make a nice chocolate cake and scones. Two different methods but simple things one can accomplish at home. Then I finish off with snacks. The fifth session. I teach how to make sandwich snacks. Things that you could put in your lunch box. That’s your lunchbox snacks. Then your samosas, your pies, your half-moons, spring rolls etc.
What has made your course so popular?
I provide everything.
What do you mean by providing everything?
I provide you with a cook book and I provide you with ingredients. And most importantly I provide you with knowledge. (Laughing!) So for my students to enroll all they need is cash in hand, lunch boxes and an apron. Everything else is provided here.
Amazing
Aside from the recipes that we will be working on together, I also furnish you with a host of other recipes, which you can go and try out that are quick and easy and simple. But basically, the main concept behind the basic cooking course is to confidence in the kitchen. How to read a recipe, make quick simple tasty meals etc.
Who should enroll for this course?
My main target group has been the everyday professional woman, especially mothers who go to work but still want to be felt as mothers at home. I will teach those dishes you can prepare over the weekend. Then you come back from work and just stick it in the oven, you take off your shoes and relax but you have prepared a meal for your family.
How long does it take for someone to complete the course?
The basic cooking like I said has only five sessions. For those who go to work, I have Saturday classes. So you will come for five Saturdays. Each session is one day long. Not one full day but it’s between two and five hours. My classes are hands on. So from the chopping right up to the very end you will be doing it on your own so that nothing will look or feel strange when you are on your own at home. So what I do is just instructing. I will show you and then you continue.
Now that Iam done with the five sessions, were is the money? Can I set up a business venture and if yes how?
Not really. I have a course Iam introducing which hasn’t gained as much mileage. Iam dubbing it the catering course not cooking. The cooking is for people who want to know their way around the kitchen and are not confident enough when reading recipes and cooking. And there are certain spices people aren’t familiar with. You come across a woman who says I went through a recipe and it has basil and she doesn’t know what that is. I also teach them substitutes. Like if you find a recipe that has certain things that you don’t know, you can alternatively use this or that. So this class is mainly for people who just want to know their way around the kitchen and be confident enough to prepare a meal.
What’s the financial Investment on the cooking course?
My course is currently going for $200.00. Remember that everything is provided within this $200.00
Thanks Thembie. Let’s move to the other side. The cakes. God I love cakes.
The baking course is for those who want to practice baking as a business.
(follow ziminvestors for part two of this article. call thembie on +263 773 044 598 to enroll for the baking coarse.)
To your continued success
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