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What workedA food hotel owner in Jamalpur, in a Shomoyer Alo report · Started in 2022

A food hotel alongside the job, taking 8,000-9,000 taka a day

A plot bought for 350,000 taka in 2022 became a food hotel now taking 8,000-9,000 taka a day; the report gives no net profit or staff count.

Alongside her job as an office assistant at Jamalpur PTI, this woman opened a small food hotel in 2022 to ease the family's money troubles. She bought the plot for 350,000 taka, so the hotel sits on her own land and the single biggest fixed cost of a roadside eatery never appears. She runs it with her husband around her working hours, and it now takes 8,000-9,000 taka a day. Because she kept the salaried job, the family was never dependent on the hotel alone while it found its feet. The income covers her three daughters' schooling. Net profit and staff numbers are not stated in the report.

Lessons

  1. 1.Keeping the salaried job while the hotel got going meant the family never depended on it alone
  2. 2.Owning the plot instead of renting removes the biggest fixed cost a roadside eatery carries

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