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Biscuit And Bagel Breakfast Bonanza

Getting Started

This is a fun way to start your morning and raise money for your group. People love to eat and a good breakfast will kick the day off just right.

Groups like fraternities, sororities, civic clubs and church youth groups will benefit greatly and will raise public awareness about their organization. If the money raised is for a special project like raising funds for a specially designed play park for handicapped children, then your reach will be broader and you will attract a more diverse public to your fundraiser.

What To Prepare

Keep it simple. Choose some simple biscuit and bagel breakfast sandwiches to offer your buyers.

Work up a Menu that will offer:

Bagel, Egg & Cheese

Bagel, Ham, Egg & Cheese

Bagel, Bacon, Egg & Cheese

Bagel, Sausage, Egg & Cheese

Biscuit, Egg & Cheese

Biscuit, Ham, Egg & Cheese

Biscuit, Bacon, Egg & Cheese

Biscuit, Sausage, Egg & Cheese

Add an extra $1.00 for juice, coffee or milk. You may obtain the juice and milk from a wholesale club store or from a local dairy where you can get discounted individual servings. The wholesale club stores will also have individual packets of sugar and cream for the coffee. A winning request is to ask local restaurants like Burger King, Wendy's and McDonalds for donations of these items.

Keep the pricing reasonable. See McDonalds for comparable prices and then add 25 to 50 cents to the price if you will be delivering them.

Ask the local bakery or grocery store for donations or price breaks on the items you need. Contact food service and wholesale clubs for donations as well since they are often overlooked as a source for donated foods. Many times you may be able to bagels and biscuits for pennies from local bakeries.

Make the menu into a good looking flyer that can be copied on color paper or on white paper with an eye-catching color for the graphics. Come up with a catchy name like Biscuits And Bagels Breakfast Bonanza. Call the radio stations and television stations with the news of your fundraising breakfast.

Promotions

Create a simple webpage about the event on one of the local newspaper, radio or television websites and then promote the web address. Many of the media groups will have their own website and will be happy to give you a brief informational page and a printable menu page for visitors to print off and fax in.

Your webpage will broaden your reach and will help attract users to these media websites. The media will like the increased traffic and public charitable image that this creates for them.

Make sure you have your web address and fax number (to send in an order) announced or printed in all publications. It is easier to have orders faxed in rather than have a dedicated number and someone standing by to receive each order. Mention that the printable order form on the web should be printed and then faxed in.

Also, print the menu in the local paper and/or Penny Saver. Ask these papers to be a corporate sponsor and give you the space for free.

It may be that the newspaper will also give you a few hundred free newspapers to provide along with your breakfasts. This will be a great sales tool for the newspaper.

Breakfast Options

1. You may presell the bagel and biscuit sandwich breakfasts. Make sure you have the manpower and vehicles to carry this out. Choose a certain day or several days on a given week or a specific day for a period of several months to deliver the breakfasts.

If you have a captured audience (a church or synagogue), make announcements and ask each department to pass your menu's out during bible class time. Have your congregational members drop off the sign up form in the offering plate or at the office after the service.

2. You may have a specific location on a certain day that you cook the breakfasts and provide them on location. You must provide an area where it will not create a traffic problem and will have plenty of seating for all who show up. Provide an area for a drive through ordering process to speed things along for buyers that want to pick up an order and take it elsewhere.

3. You may offer to cook for specific groups at a set function. A Lions, Kiwanis or Rotary club holds a morning meeting and asks your group to provide the Biscuits And Bagels for a set day each week for a period of several months. Get enough of these groups to buy your breakfasts and you have a great source of funds for your project. Ask these groups to offer your breakfasts to the company employees of the businesses they own or represent to increase your funding even more.

Either way you slice it, these breakfast fundraisers will be unique and fun. It may even turn into an annual or ongoing event that everyone will identify with your group.