Gessuir Pigatto, Joao Guilherme DE Camargo Ferraz Machado, Timoteo Ramos Queiroz, Julian Roberto Nishimura, Andrei Golfeto Dos Santos, A Direct Costing System for the Street Food Segment, International Business Management, Volume 10,Issue 3, 2016, Pages 218-227, ISSN 1993-5250, ibm.2016.218.227, (https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=ibm.2016.218.227) Abstract: Current research develops a system of direct costing for the street food segment, especially for street food vendors by identifying costs for a better management of working capital and competitiveness in business. Current exploratory and descriptive research identifies the main factors used in street food and proposes a simplified model for costs from the entrepreneurs’ point of view. Methodology comprised two procedures. The first procedure involved five entrepreneurs to fill the worksheet by a transversal collection; the second procedure comprised an entrepreneur from Tupa SP Brazil who longitudinally filled the cost sheet for 4 weeks. Keywords: Street food;direct costing;competitiveness;costing system;entrepreneurs