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Ice cream truck or hot dog cart?

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keird

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I like hot dogs and soft pretzels. I'd love to sell them at daytime events under a big umbrella. I want to be able to expertly apply ketchup and mustard to these products and I'm willing to spend the time to learn.

But I just saw this company that pimps out ice cream trucks and I'm all sorts of lost.

I mean having kids running after your van, going bat-shit insane waving money has got to be awesome. That's real ultimate power right there. But my daughter would have that stigma of having a dad that's an ice cream man. Sure it's cool when they're young, but what about when she's a teenager? It's not a dig on food vendors, because they can make a career with enough persistence, hard work and a good location.

What are your thoughts? The flexibility of a van, or the value of a cart? Please, no squeeze bacon links.
 
Originally posted by: keird
I like hot dogs and soft pretzels. I'd love to sell them at daytime events under a big umbrella. I want to be able to expertly apply ketchup and mustard to these products and I'm willing to spend the time to learn.

But I just saw this company that pimps out ice cream trucks and I'm all sorts of lost.

I mean having kids running after your van, going bat-shit insane waving money has got to be awesome. That's real ultimate power right there. But my daughter would have that stigma of having a dad that's an ice cream man. Sure it's cool when they're young, but what about when she's a teenager? It's not a dig on food vendors, because they can make a career with enough persistence, hard work and a good location.

What are your thoughts? The flexibility of a van, or the value of a cart? Please, no squeeze bacon links.
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Get a cart and setup between the hours of 10PM and 3AM in the bar district of your town/city. You'll make bank.
 
I would think van would be the easiest. Just drive into the park and have a large umbrella in the van to set up outside.

Maybe you could keep a cart in the van?
 
Originally posted by: barfo
Hot dog cart, people think you're a pedo if you get an ice cream truck.
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That's only if you write free candy on the side of it and it has no windows other then in the front.
 
Open a JapaDog cart in San Francisco! That's my retirement plan, but it will be too long before I can make it a reality.

KT
 
in this day and age, ice cream trucks is a losing proposition. hot dog carts, depending on location, can be very lucrative.

every summer i see ice cream trucks driving around my neighborhood, and that's all they do, drive. kids have everything they want right in their freezers, thanks to mom and grocery stores.
 
Originally posted by: herrjimbo
in this day and age, ice cream trucks is a losing proposition. hot dog carts, depending on location, can be very lucrative.

every summer i see ice cream trucks driving around my neighborhood, and that's all they do, drive. kids have everything they want right in their freezers, thanks to mom and grocery stores.
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Good point.

 
Originally posted by: keird
Originally posted by: herrjimbo
in this day and age, ice cream trucks is a losing proposition. hot dog carts, depending on location, can be very lucrative.

every summer i see ice cream trucks driving around my neighborhood, and that's all they do, drive. kids have everything they want right in their freezers, thanks to mom and grocery stores.
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Good point.
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You can innovate. Make a "Waffle vs Pancake" cart. Sell breakfast foods in morning (and all day), have ice cream in afternoon and night.
 
Those look pretty complicated. That's a lot of condiments and fixins to have on-hand. But for San Fransico it might be a valuable thing.
 
What conventions would I have to be subjected to in order to justify a Waffle vs. Pancake cart?

On second thought, the breakfast burrito demographic is completely underserved in western Massachusetts. Eggs, sausage, old potatos and salsa. That could work, too.
 
On top of the good point below, the high gas prices of last year put tons of ice cream trucks out of business. Gas is going to go back up some time in the next couple of years, probably before you can pay off the truck. At that point, you would be pretty much screwed.

Originally posted by: herrjimbo
in this day and age, ice cream trucks is a losing proposition. hot dog carts, depending on location, can be very lucrative.

every summer i see ice cream trucks driving around my neighborhood, and that's all they do, drive. kids have everything they want right in their freezers, thanks to mom and grocery stores.
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Originally posted by: Crono
Originally posted by: keird
Originally posted by: herrjimbo
in this day and age, ice cream trucks is a losing proposition. hot dog carts, depending on location, can be very lucrative.

every summer i see ice cream trucks driving around my neighborhood, and that's all they do, drive. kids have everything they want right in their freezers, thanks to mom and grocery stores.
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Good point.
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You can innovate. Make a "Waffle vs Pancake" cart. Sell breakfast foods in morning (and all day), have ice cream in afternoon and night.
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There was a waffle stand I went to a few times in Barcelona that had orgasmic waffles. I would love to see one of those things here.

KT
 
A buddy of mine had 6 hot dog carts that he leased out to people. Only one consistently made a profit.
 
Why limit yourself? We have a local hotdog AND ice cream truck that drives around the auto shops around here.
 
My dad knows some guy who quit his day job and went down to FL to sell sno-cones on the beach. Makes a good living apparently. :Q
 
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