/biz/ - Business & Finance

>>22012413
Anon this is literally my idea or something similar with a restaurant. I would go for it if I were you, but you'll probably need at least 50k for the truck + equipment + permits with enough left for inventory and gas.
You can find a good place to park and charge retard premium on shitty food because people are lazy. problem is you are probably competing for spots and times with some psychos and immigrants

Depends on your state and city laws and if you have good experience
Also do you like working 70 hours a week? Are you comfortable working with primarily drug addicts and whores?

Can anyone guess what Italian food OP is talking about?
Is it a fucking canoli?

>>22012484
I used to commute to NYC and there were these guys that sold coffee and bacon egg and cheese sandwiches next to the station. I was paying for $3 green mountain coffee and $3 for a sandwich that costs probably 1.50 max to make both. and i did it happily because i was hungover and/or late.
But there must be complications becasue they always had a big line every morning until one day they stopped and i saw their truck just rotting behind an office building not being used. wonder what happened

>>22012491
this could be circumvented if he just hires local teens. but yea, a lot of the logistics/supply people in the food industry are total drug addict retards. major turn off for me

>>22012413
>I know how to make a really delicious Italian street food dish that you eat with your fingers.
i wouldn't go all in on mozzarella sticks, anon.

>>22012413
in most states in the US you have to work out of a brick&mortar restaurant kitchen for health and safety reasons.

A lot of food trucks lease kitchen space from existing restaurants to meet the requirement, but it's pretty fucking expensive. So you get stuck with the costs of owning at least a part of an actual restaurant but don't get the benefits like higher prices and more customers.

that doesn't mean it can't work, but it's a lot more expensive than most people imagine. More often a restaurant will run food trucks as a side gig just because they already meet the legal requirements.

>>22012557
not quite mozzarella sticks but you’re on the right track
>>22012517
if i told you, someone here would go out and steal first mover advantage, that wouldn’t be very smart now WOULD IT??
>>22012491
>Also do you like working 70 hours a week?
as long as i’m my own boss and i’m doing something with my hands. actual food related labor will not take 70 hours a week, but constant hustling for events and whatnot will probably push it towards that. still sounds fun. wouldn’t hire anyone unless i really wanted someone to take care of dishes, which i doubt i’ll do.
my rationale is that right now tons of food trucks have closed due to ‘rona, which means less competition. also, in my state, they relaxed laws about where/when food trucks can set up shop, which includes several highway rest stops that were never open previously. the city i’d mostly operate in is a richfag libshit hellhole wherein i can milk FAAAT margins especially if i splurge on organic grassfed ethical blahblah ingredients and market the hell off that (i also just wanna do that anyways since it’s tasty as fuck for what i’m making)

>>22012819
Arancini are delicious

>>22012517
Panelle?

>>22012941
ding ding ding. they sure fuckin are, especially mine. my bread and butter will definitely be the classic roman style with tomato-based risotto/mozzarella filling as well as milanese risotto/mozzarella (maybe scamorza if i can find a good cheesemonger whose dick i can suck for a good deal?). but i’d also wanna try crazy shit, basically any risotto i can imagine and turn that into arancini. might fuck around and do milanese risotto/small hunk of osso bucco filling, porcini risotto/veal filling, etc

>>22013001
i've literally seen an arancini truck in NYC a year or two ago. They had some stuffed with meat and even a sweet one stuffed with nutella. I hope you're not talking about NY then lol

>>22013103
Nowhere near the east coast

>>22013001
are those like suppli,if so fuck you thats my idea. why its not more popular outise of italy is a mystery to me desu.

>>22013169
yeah basically
don’t worry bb we’re probably not in the same state, and i’ll never open more than one ;) good luck!

>>22012549
You're gonna need reliable people to run your shit and the only people intelligent enough usually end up being addicts
Teens dont stick around long. He'd be retraining every 6 months.
>>22012819
If the laws are good do it. I'd look into catering first just to get a feel for the industry though. You can make more money catering than selling to street urchins

>>22012413
If you really love it, give it a try. Make sure you have a year, preferably 2 years worth of rent.

If you have any experience in hospitality do it. If you have no experience at all, you will fail and lose a lot of money. Anyway it doesn't matter because you sound like a mummy boy wog who can cook food his mum taught him how to do for his friends who pretend to like it.

>>22013416
I’ve worked as a cook in italy you nigger

>>22013416
This too
Cooking for friends and family is waaaaay different than cooking professionally
Motherfuckers want a gourmet meal everytime cooked to perfection, and it has to look Instagram perfect. Every. Single. Plate. And it has to come out quick and with exceptional service.
If you dont provide it to that standard, you will ironically starve