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Don’t know what the Australian pallet is but I’d build a bar first then slowly incorporate American food at a snail pace after I had an established base of patrons, but that’s just me.Define "pimp"30K is way high for FloridaMy estimates are more along the lines of 70 to 85K.Startup cost on a food truck is about 100k
do they get medical/dental/vision benefits, life insurance and 401k?
No. A 250.00 a day wage is far above average so they can get their own coverage
30k for legal/inspection/permit and $65k+ for a used truck is my calculation
are you going to pimp the food truck?
the Kogi taco truck out here was a project of a few UCLA business students and the cost of the truck was over $100k… it has now expanded to a couple trucks and a restaurant location… I was following them on Twitter when it started and was just the first truck.
Hit the clubs and make a name for yourself… that’s my suggestion. Everyone wants to eat after dancing all night.
I plan to oversee it and dictate the operations and recipes but I really don't plan on being in it hour after hour. It's an investment.
My philosophy is that the profit sharing aspect and high wages will encourage hard work and dedication on the part of the people I hire. Depending on how well it does I'll probably open another and then another until I get to the point where I open a stationary spot.
Yes, I've already mapped out the clubs and examined the competition who make similar items. Right now they're charging something like 18.00 for an 8oz burger that is pretty medicore ie standard 80/20 ground meat that you can pick up at any Walmart. Whereas I'll be charging about 12.00 for a burger with a custom blend of high quality beef and tallow that I grind myself before adding my secret seasoning
I also make a margarita pizza that would give the iconic Lucalis in brooklyn a run for it's money. I make the sauce from scratch with 6 Italian cheeses including fresh burrata, fresh basil topped with extra virgin olive oil
did I mention that I'm an amazing cook?
Which reminds me, there was some dude I was following in LA who straps a portable wood fired oven to the back of his truck and actually cooks pizzas in parking lots. Ever seen him?
My brother wants to open up a bar that just serves great cheese steaks, burgers, and other grill and fry fare from our time spent all over the US and especially the East Coast.
He wants to do it in a highly rural but semi built up region covered in snow for 6 months of the year though....
I like his passion but don't think area people would pay what a good cheese steak is worth in ingredients.... even if he can get the bread close to what's needed (he's been baking full on for a decade and thinks he's got it now)...
I wish him well.
He's a persistent motherfucker and if anyone can set their mind to achieving a goal, it's him.
He'll make a killing on drinks at any rate. Everyone is a lush there. Lulz
Good luck yourself too
Cheese steaks are a regional thing. The east has restaurants that just serve them while here they wouldn’t sell over an Italian beef and die on menus. I’m not taking a cheese steak dropped in a pot of cheese wiz over a beef with hot peppers, where as some dunce from a favela like Philly would choose the later.
He has his mind right with liquor tho. That’s where the moneys at considering distributors are likely to cut crazy deals for business since the pandemic took a chokehold on the industry. If I was starting a bar I’d have nothing but regional micro brews and have the manufactured piss water in bottles in a lonely cooler. You know, actually giving back to the community. Male bartenders and nothing but fresh cheeks cocktailing and shot gurrling.
There’s money to be made there, no doubt.