Streetfire Kitchens Business Plan — Implementation Roadmap

The phases from commissary fit-out and first three trucks to a five-truck fleet, dependencies, and the gate at each stage.

Implementation Roadmap

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12.1 Development programme
12.2 Critical dependencies
12.3 Conditions precedent to drawdown
12.4 What each phase costs and what is recoverable

Figure 24. Implementation roadmap — prove one truck before funding three.

12.1 Development programme

Phase	Months	Activities	Gate — do not proceed without
1. Certify and secure	1 to 7	Register the company; secure the commissary lease and zoning consent; fit out the commissary and obtain its Certificate of Acceptability first; complete Person in Charge and food handler training under Regulation 10 of R638; build or convert truck one with gas CoC, fire certificate and roadworthy; sign the first four weekday pitch agreements	Commissary certified; truck one certified; four pitch agreements signed
2. Prove one truck	7 to 10	Trade truck one for a full quarter and count the covers; build the event portfolio with photography, references and set menus	Average covers at or above 100 per service
3. Build to three	10 to 16	Commission trucks two and three; recruit and train crews; appoint the events and sales coordinator; secure weekend market roster places for the fleet	Three trucks trading; event days above 8% of the calendar
4. Fill the fleet	Years 2 to 3	Lift utilisation toward 90%; drive event mix to 16%; commission truck four once pitch capacity is confirmed ahead of it	Confirmed pitch capacity for a fourth truck; cover above 1.30x
5. Reach five	Years 4 to 5	Commission truck five; reach 98% utilisation; drive event days to 20% of the calendar	Five trucks at 1 306 truck-days; cover above 3.0x

12.2 Critical dependencies

Dependency	What it gates	Why it cannot be accelerated
Commissary lease with zoning consent	Everything	The commissary is the premises most of the compliance sits against, and it must be certified before trucks are built
Certificate of Acceptability, commissary	Truck certification	An Environmental Health Practitioner inspects the fixed premises first; a truck certificate follows the kitchen behind it
Person in Charge training	Any food handling at all	Accredited training under Regulation 10 of R638; the certificate is issued in the individual’s name
Four weekday pitch agreements	Trucks two and three	Weekday trade is 43.1% of revenue and pitches are granted at the discretion of others
A full trading quarter on one truck	The fleet	Covers per service cannot be forecast into existence. Three months of real data is the only evidence that counts
Events coordinator appointed	The event mix	Events are 30.1% of gross profit and grow from 11% to 20% of the calendar only with someone selling them
Confirmed pitch capacity	Each truck addition	A truck without a pitch earns nothing and costs R134 000 a year to own
Equity committed at drawdown	Surviving the ramp	Operations consume R2 361 370 across Years 1 and 2 while the fleet is still being built

12.3 Conditions precedent to drawdown

Four conditions, and the third is the one that matters most

One. At least four weekday pitch agreements signed before the second and third trucks are ordered, with a standing policy of holding more pitch agreements than trucks in service. Two. The commissary certified under Regulation R638 before any truck is built, and a bench of at least three trained Persons in Charge, because the Certificate of Acceptability is personal rather than corporate and does not transfer when someone leaves. Three. One truck traded for a full quarter with covers counted and averaging at least 100 per service before the fleet is funded. Four. Equity of R5 900 000 committed at drawdown, sized to carry two loss-making years without a further call, with covenants first tested at the end of Year 3. The first, second and fourth are ordinary funding conditions. The third is the one that distinguishes a plan from a hope.

12.4 What each phase costs and what is recoverable

Phase	Cash committed	Cumulative	What is recoverable if the venture stops here
1. Certify and secure	R2 671 000	R2 671 000	One truck and the commissary equipment have a resale market; the fit-out in a leased building does not. The lease is the harder commitment
2. Prove one truck	R390 000	R3 061 000	A quarter of trading losses and the event portfolio. Nothing recoverable except the answer to the only question that matters
3. Build to three	R1 632 000	R4 693 000	Two more trucks, each with an active second-hand market. This is the point at which the fleet becomes a commitment
4. Fill the fleet	R2 259 000	R6 952 000	Trucks four and five are financed assets; the working capital consumed by the ramp is not
5. Reach five	R1 085 000	R8 037 000	A trading fleet with signed pitches, roster places and an event pipeline

The shape of that table is why the second phase matters so far out of proportion to its cost. R390 000 buys a quarter of real trading data on one truck, at a point where the venture holds assets it could largely sell. The R4 976 000 committed after it is what converts a recoverable position into a fleet.

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