How Do You Buy A Bread Route?
Milk routes, ice routes, fruit and vegetable routes, and newspaper routes are the types of delivery routes that people were familiar with in the past. The individual doing the route would make his way down each street delivering his commodity to the local residents. There are very few individual routes anymore; it makes more economic sense to sell most of these items at a central location. Some routes still exist, though, including bread routes that deliver baked goods to restaurants, stores and individual customers along the way. These deliveries ensure that the baked goods arrive fresh at each location. Step 1 Contact a national route broker to locate a bread route in your area. Route brokers act as agents for bakeries looking for people to run their bread routes. Buying a route through a route broker offers a customer list, protected territory and a delivery vehicle. Step 2 Contact a delivery person who is selling her bread route. People running bread routes sell their routes when t
