Originally Posted by After Shock Media

The typical non electrical machines do not have much equipment failure, and thanks to the addition of adding a clutch to the spinner, it greatly reduces vandalism by people attempting to reverse spin your crank with a wrench.



Bookmarked it to take a good look latter. As I said no plans on quick expansions, especially into high end (expensive) machines. Without even looking I would presume I could get hundreds of my current machine type versus 1 of those.



Yeah, I already have his spreadsheets that detail what people like, but more importantly things that are a "do not stock". Like nuts for instance - which will require special cleaning if a new machine is brought in, plus also alterations in the route to ensure you have not handled nuts before visiting that location.



Nice business, here it would be very seasonal. My brother did coffee carts pretty early on. Made a killing with his kiosks in the malls. Problem he had was the locations he worked made a killing, the locations that were hired help made much less and had tendencies to be low on cups versus sales, etc. Which we all know is giving free ones away. For myself that would be to much work and not passive enough. Unless of course you landed some great workers. I do know just about all types of carts can make a killing, even with super crazy city rents if your on the streets.

Now we have looked into food service trucks/trailers. These would work the fair circuits we have here, and we have a whole lot of those without even venturing that far north or south in California. Again would be lots of travel for them, would need solid employee's. Yet I know they make a killing too. Was chatting it up with one owner, one of the few that did breakfasts as well as lunch types. They specialized in "English/Scottish" food. Bangers, Shepard's pie, that sort of stuff.
At a smaller event he may only do 200-300 breakfasts, at an event like the Scottish games, he would do 1500-3000 servings of breakfast alone. Roughly 5 to 8 bucks a pop without drink. Just was crazy thinking about it.



It is all location really. Schools are a whole new matter though. Especially since they now demand healthy food as per law. Caused many contract issues and quick swaps. Still can be gotten into by any size company thanks to bidding and other Government adjustments such as a woman owned business.