Would there be any interest in Fresh Food Boxes at campsites?

[Coopsmum2025]

Hi All, I am a mum with a nearly 10yr old son and we camp alot but I get so frustrated having to spend so much going out for food or wasting alot of food that we bring with us so we came up with the idea of providing fresh food boxes i.e Fresh Burger, Breakfast and BBQ boxes. (The 3 B's!) They would contain all you need with no waste(obvs all eco friendly packaging!). Would really appreciate some feedback on this idea -would you buy one and if not why? If you would -also why?-very interested in peoples thoughts !!Note : it would be quality and fresh so not as cheap as going to Aldi to get all the ingredients :-)
I am based in Cornwall so would obviously start here!

I camp in Cornwall and would potentially be interested in such a box. Even Tesco products as it saves a trip to Tesco (or another supermarket). The campsite I have been to sells eggs, bacon and milk. Maybe a few other bits so you’d want to do some market research to see what people want that camp site shops don’t sell.

It definitely worth a try although how about a pizza box? One campsite we went to offered dough and pizza items as well as a pizza oven to make your own. If you did this with a few ovens it might work. Or you could offer to do it and the campsite takes a %? I don’t know what permits you’d need. There must be something along those lines you could do. Food trucks and the like.

While I get your offer, I wonder on the economics.

You need website, payment system, office, way of working with suppliers and customers, a chilled delivery van. That is £'000s to set up.
Say you can buy all this small, fresh premium stuff for £20. (I suspect more...)
But you have to shop them individually and freshly, and deliver. So £20 travel.
Then the shop/campsite want a cut, so add another £10 and it is sale or return and return on fresh stuff is wasted so that is now £40 down.
You need to charge profit on top of direct costs, so suggest £10 per box.
Each box then retails at £50+
But you did not sell one box and that wipes profit from the 4 boxes you did sell due to sale or return.

And that is before you pay for the office, ordering system, van, website, phone, laptop etc.

To make a reasonable income from this you would need what, daily sales that lead to £300 profit a day, half of which is overheads and half of which is income for you. That is 150-300 boxes a day sold. Maybe you can find 30 local campsites and sell 8-12 boxes a day to each site?
And of course this is seasonal. And everyone wants the boxes on Monday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
So no weekends again for you and your family.
And then a supplier sells out of burgers on the day you have orders for 400 burgers...or forgets to bake your buns...or the salad is crap.
So lets say you work flat out 4-5 days per week for 3 months of the year and 3 months at 'meh' levels. You would be lucky to clear £10k gross for those 6 months, minus of course taxation.

I may of course be wrong, but this sounds like a hounding for nothing....