I quit my £55k job to set up my own cheese firm – we’re on track to make £1m, my step-by-step guide shows how I did it

STANDING in a Tesco aisle, Riya Patel could hardly believe what she was looking at – her own product on the UK’s biggest grocer’s shelves, with thousands selling every week. The 30-year-old ditched her stable £55,000 a year job and used £6,000 of her savings to start the business in 2024 – now it’s on…