How to Start a Profitable Mama Put Business in Nigeria

This is an easy  step by step guide on how you can  start your own successful and lucrative mama put business in Nigeria.  If you are looking for a lucrative business to go into with small start up amount then mama put is a good choice.   It is mostly women that go into this  food business in Nigeria. It is so popular in Nigeria for so many reason, their food and services are way cheaper than  the  reguar fast foods and restaurants and some people are so busy and occupy to cook especially student and workers.



Even in the mist of competition your mamaput business will  definitely florish as long as your dishes are cheap and tasty, coupled with a condusive environment.

Start up capital really depend on which of the mamaput types below you want to start, the capital should be between #100,000 to #200,000. I updated this part because of the high cost of things in Nigeria.

Types of Mama put

1, This set hawk their foods from street to street, they carry their cooked food on their head  in a white  basin popularly called {Murtala basin} . In the basin they have white rice, white beans, porridge beans, dodo, spaghetti, etc., with all wrapped  separately  in  transparent plastic bags, then on the cover of the basin is where they place the stew bowl, take -plates,spoons, forks all disposable, salviette and anything they need that couldn't get in the basin.

They start preparing as early as 3:30am every cooking day. They are always on the road before 7:00am and finishes before or  by noon.

2,  These set  hawk  too but on a larger scale, they move about with a barrow or a wooden cart  which contains all their foods ie, white rice, fried rice,jollof rice, soups, eba and fufu, dodo, salad etc. Some of these mamaputs have a particular position they stay after hawking for a while. They start cooking every early too but their  finishing time extends to  afternoon.

3,  These last set cook in the houses then take their food to a particular spot made from pieces of wood or with a very big umbrella where their customer come to patronize  them. Their customers are mostly pupils,students,drivers,labourers, workers and people that lives around their shade.

Sources of Capital for mamaput Business  in Nigeria.

• You can get your start-up from savings or money given to you by friends or family members.
• Lapo Micro Finance Bank
• Grooming Micro Finance Bank
• Accion Micro finance Bank.