/ck/ - Food & Cooking

I used to live in New Orleans. They have a community kitchen there that people take turns preparing and selling out of. So one day a week some would sell homemade soups and stews, the next day someone else would sell their pizza, The day after that someone would sell burritos and tacos and so forth. So the one I know about is the pizza place that started off in the community kitchen. They were popular and went to two days a week, then had a kickstarter and got the start up money to open their own shop. People supported them because they liked the food. If you want to research it the company is called "Pizza Delicious" and it is in the Bywater section of New Orleans. Maybe there is a community kitchen where you live.

>>4739193
Do it without loans in the first place. When you get it up and running, you'll owe no one at all instead of being in debt and SOL forever. No, what you make won't repay the debt because it won't stop after that. You'll just collect more debt, that is how the system works.

>>4739212
Thanks. I'll look into them. I don't really plan on the loans being for very much to begin with - I'm not going very large scale - so if the kickstarter thing falls through, I'm going to do something -like- this. We don't have a community kitchen, but the local college already has a mobile food kitchen that they don't really ever use... so I'm thinking I might be able to sway my way into that for starters.

>>4739214
Sound advice. I'll try. My first response sort of goes for you, as well.

my friend and I found an old travel trailer, we got for free if we hauled off an ild mans property. gutted the inside and started cooking out of it, no loans.

do not take out loans in this line of work

expect to be working your ass off 24/7 for very little profit. make sure this is something you are 100% passionate about because you won't be getting anything else out of it

you don't always have to buy expensive equipment. you can make some of it.

flat grill? sheet metal with propane burners underneath. seen it done.

>>4739234
I already work before sun up to after sun down for nothing.

>>4739228
Great idea. Thanks.

>>4739272
I can look into it.

Look into your local laws before you get to excited (or spend money!)

I used to dream of having a food cart (think NYC hot dog cart, but with something more interesting) because there aren't any in my city. Then I found out why; the rules are so strict and there are so many required facilities for food vendors a cart or stand is literally imposable. The only thing remotely feasible would be a truck, which pushed the project out of my price range.

I don't understand how someone can have zero credit.
Have you paid with cash for every transaction ever?
Why?

>>4739808
idk about him but for me its bank fees bank charges and gas money to go to bank so they can hold on to your money and charge money if you dont let them hold enough

>>4739808
I have student loans. Everything else I've paid cash for, including three cars, and I've never owned a house because it's always been better to rent for us. We're even renting a 300k property right now for $600/month because maintenance is included in our rental agreement.

>>4739808

Nobody will give you credit if you don't already have it. It's really hard for a young person to get a loan or credit card without a cosigner. If you just became an adult and you're parents are jackasses, you're kinda SOL.

Took me years to convince my dad to cosign a car for me. And it took years of making those payments on time before anybody would give me a shitty student credit card without a cosignature.

Shit's hard these days, so if a person doesn't have support I can see why they wouldn't have credit.

>>4740610
I can't even get a Best Buy credit card because we just moved and that neutralized the GOOD credit I did have (it's called a "hard look" or something when a landlord checks your credit, I've been told).

>I have no credit history, so I'm probably going to end up doing a kickstarter type thing after my loan attempts fail, and then eventually drink myself into a depression and continue on with my meaningless job that I have now.

Start a lemonade stand, then. I'm not even joking. You should begin next year, during tag sale/boot sale/yard sale/garage sale/jumble sale/rummage sale/flea market season.
If you are in the US, get ServSafe certified by then, rent space at various sales and farmer's markets throughout your area and sell cold food and drink.
I did this on weekends for a few summers when I was at uni in the US selling iced coffee, ice tea, lemonade and homemade fruit sodas along with carrot cake and cheap sandwiches. Figure out what prices would fly at these locations, make up a sign board and sell, sell, sell.

Be sure to get a bike chain to lock your cashbox to something.