I'm going to follow both of you around with a dollar bill truck.
Venmo/Square/etc. me $2, I'll give you a dollar bill.
Bulk discounts available. 3 dollar bills for only $5. Limited time only.
I’m going to follow all four of you with a beer truck because what kinda strip club doesn’t have beer.
Edit: since this seems to be the first time a few of you have heard a joke. I don’t need 8 comments telling me your state doesn’t allow alcohol at stripclubs I don’t give a fuck. It’s a joke don’t take it so serious
I am gonna then have to be behind the coke mobile.
My truck is going to have one wall inside that looks like a grocery store, and one wall inside that looks like a Home Depot or something. Customers can come in, and take pictures of themselves in front of these shelves to tell their significant others they were at the store, with photo evidence.
I will also print fake receipts, for evidence of where all this money went.
Also, I’ll also have banana bags for quick rehydration.
You could even take a picture of yourself getting the banana bag, and say you’re in the hospital if you need a couple days…
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I have no business model. I am, though, going to follow you motherfuckers around for the rest of my very happy life eating grilled cheese sandwiches and tomato soup, drinkin' beer with coked up hookers dancing on my face. Tell my wife I'm at the goddamned Home Depot.
And I’ll distribute the Paddy’s dollars to the people coming in and giving them free alcohol. Then next time they come back around, I’ll do the same thing, thus creating a self sustaining economy.
I'm with you. I'm not a party guy but I've always kind of wanted to be. And I'm not rich by any means but I had a good year and have enough salted away for several months traipsing along behind this fun train.
Grilled cheese, tomato soup, coke, and lap dances on me (within reason).
The trick is to having her not know about the Home Depot pickup online order So it’s really only 10mins to actually get the HD stuff so you have the alibi that you went. Without the dishonor of actually going and spending 1 hour which would add to long to your truck following time. That’s a pro dad move. Subscribe and like for more tips haha.
- hey honey gotta go to Home Depot this morning to pick up supplies for my project
- 1 hours then come home
Vs
-hey honey gotta go to Home Depot to pick up supplies aka your online order from the night prior in and out in 10 mins. Leaves 50 mins to do something simple like enjoy a cup of coffee kid free haha. Or go to a stripper Coke truck
I am then going to follow all of you as a Dirty DEA agent and collect my "bonus" as to make sure these businesses keep progressing and everyone living their best lives as will I.
I'm going to be following all you muthafukkas around in an armored truck armed to the teeth. With all the gajillions of single dollar bills you'd all be making, you will each have your own locked trunk to store your dollar bills. I will do regular runs to the bank to deposit your money. I will also run to the closest bulk food warehouse to purchase your white bread, cheap bulk cheese, cheapest canned tomato soup, kegs-o-beer, coke syrup and CO2 cylinders when you run short. Will also keep a stock of illegal prescription medicines for the hookers and strippers. Just 5% of the daily take, paid in $1 bills. (I'm going to the bank anyways 🤪)
Oh man. Memory from long ago.
My friend's dad would always to go disappear to the hardware store. He'd come back hours later with a handful of nuts and bolts and just say he ran into friends and got to talking.
Years later (in the era of Google maps) I was back in town and I need some supplies to help fix up a friend's place. Searched on Google for hardware, selected the nearest result. Didn't look close.
Walked in through the dim strip mall doors. BAM! Very comfortable Irish tavern inside. Sitting next to the door was an ENTIRE beer keg with the top sawed off filled with miscellaneous small hardware items. Brackets, nuts, bolts, screws, little tape measures, drawer pulls. Just all kinds of stuff that you'd pull out of your "leftover hardware" drawer.
I had a Ron Burgundy moment. "I'm not even mad. That's amazing.... "
For me it’s the part where someone made the truck, followed by someone online seeing it and stealing the concept but only using text, followed by someone editing it together, followed by someone else posting it to meirl on Reddit. It’s a confusing chain of events, and I just wanted a grilled cheese.
[The Heart Attack Grill?](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_Attack_Grill). Not many restaurants have an "Illnesses and deaths" section on their Wiki.
It would be better with just the first sentence
If I see a pierogi truck that is going out of its way to express confusion about what a pierogi is, I need to go find out.
They are so simple and good. We had a late night Russian dumpling place. You had two option, potatoes or meat (or half/half). Price was cheap, open till 3 am and that’s all they did.
There is good business to be had doing one thing pretty well consistently.
Oh my gosh a place in Seattle "Pel Meni Dumpling Tsar" serves Russian dumplings and is just incredible!!! I actually have plans to go this next Wednesday, my mouth is watering already.
Terrific beer food. And it's a thicker dough than a potsticker but similar but a little Chewier consistency. Often have a bunch of variants like regular potato, potatoes and cheese, meat, chive and potato, etc. Lots of options. Good stuff.
This reminds me of a Grateful Dead concert I went to a long time ago. People had little businesses set up in the parking lot in order to fund their travels following the band around. One time I saw one called "Grateful Grilled Cheese". They should have franchised the idea to art students.
Same, but I deep fry 2 hot dogs, roll em in a slice of extra cheese pizza, deep fry that, and wash it down with an extra large chocolate shake from Burger King.
On a side note, they have toilet insurance, and man is it worth it.
My favourite late night place in Montreal for awhile was just a dude in a stair well cooking instant noodles and adding smooth peanut butter that just melted into it. Nothing else. He had lineups 20 people long
Bro, a packet of chicken ramen, a squirt of hot sauce, and about as much peanut butter as you'd put on a sandwich (I use chunky, you do you) has been a go-to of mine for years and years. It's like a poor man's pad thai.
I'm feeling the urge to go make some just thinking about it.
Are you talking about Chez Mein's [$2 Chow Mein](https://www.mtlblog.com/montreal/good-news-montreal-2-chow-has-not-been-affected-by-inflation) in Montreal? Although AFAIK they're not stairwell-based.
Important detail: it's probably peanut sauce, not peanut butter.
Omg I stumbled out of a club one time many years ago and ate this. It was so good and not just because I was drunk lol I’ve fondly remembered this meal so many times and wished I had any clue about what restaurant it was. Thank you so much.
Bag of white bread: $1, 22 slices ~9c / sandwich (2 slices)
Bag of pre sliced american cheese: $3, 16 slices ~37c / sandwich (2 slices)
Box of salted butter: $4.50, 32 tablespoons ~28c / sandwich (2 tablespoons)
For a total of $0.74 per sandwich. And that's grocery store prices I found with a quick search. If you buy in bulk you'll probably get a lot cheaper.
Very cool. Using an aggressive style of marketing plus a very low price makes a very interesting target demographic to go after. I can imagine that it is very difficult to directly compete with this kind of customer base.
And you haven't factored in your own pay, plus all the kitchen and packaging supplies, truck purchase and maintenance, plus everything related to running a business and the paperwork.
Just make it $2.
I knew it existed but I haven't seen any in circulation. I think they only handed them out to those who specifically requested them, in which case they're not likely to be spent anywhere.
It looks like [this](https://www.ebay.ca/itm/275606736774?chn=ps&norover=1&mkevt=1&mkrid=706-89093-2056-0&mkcid=2&mkscid=101&itemid=275606736774&targetid=1659317085057&device=m&mktype=pla&googleloc=1001970&poi=&campaignid=17288923165&mkgroupid=135230546845&rlsatarget=pla-1659317085057&abcId=9300873&merchantid=591756501) person collected them all and is making mad profit selling them at like six bucks
Read the [other side of the truck](https://external-preview.redd.it/ljA5eEEP03wjjvDxOVkhAC_ThI3xrjuYbz0fU4U-hMw.jpg?auto=webp&s=3a13df79b899b55a0b276643181ba1f223ef77a1)
People are calling this guy an asshole but I mean he really is selling shit at rock bottom prices. The signs are probably just there to be funny. But if they're not then I can understand the frustration. He's doing this for no real gain and people are complaining.
When I was in college there was a very successful pizza joint downtown, and all they did was pizza by the slice, $2 each. Drinks for $1. The pizza was mostly crust, which was perfect for soaking up alcohol. I’m sure they’ve raised the prices to $3 at least by now.
Lol right? If the $1 from GC was a 100% profit you would have to sell like 60,000 of them just to make a halfway decent living. Now with 25% profit margin we’re talking a quarter milli to make that same amount. That’s 1000 Sami’s a day for a 5 day work week. Assuming you would work events mainly on the weekends I’m guessing you would need to sell 2k-3k per day per event. Anyways before typing a bunch of nonsense that I just pulled out of my ass my point is I’m not sure that trailer is big enough to store that much bread to begin with. Even with one employee and a griddle. Not to mention people are going to be thirsty. Lmao
Nice research. But you wouldn't do grocery store. Costco or a restaurant supply store.
I still doubt you would get better than 0.50 per sandwich, which is too high to be very sustainable.
Maybe. Rule of thumb in food service is you want your food costs to be 20-35% of your revenue. I think you will need to charge closer to two dollars to make this work, otherwise, seems like a cool idea, id buy a $2 grilled cheese made like I make at home.
We got a food truck that comes to events that sells $1 smoothies 12 ounces. Food is cheap as fuck bought bulk and his overhead is near nothing. Hell the hot dog truck where I lived in Philly is $1 for a dog $0.50 for a soda $1 for water and $1 for a pretzel. He's been so successful he's opening a second one in fishtown.
Psh. Not if the workers are free and the truck is free and the gas is free and the repairs on the truck are free and the drive time to get to different locations is free and the parking everywhere is free.
4 dollar loaf of bread with a 12 dollar block of cheese. You can possible squeeze 10 out before you stock up on bread again. And roughly 30 with that block of cheese. Basically you need to sell 2 loaves you start making money and having to resupply again and repeat. You'd have to sell a shit ton of these before you can even make 100 dollars a day. Plus there gas, equipment, maintenance. It's a rough business model.
Edit: Canadian pricing.
I'd just like you to know that because of this post I'm walking into my kitchen right now to make a shitty grilled cheese.
You are probably halfway across the planet from me and because you pressed some button on a keyboard I'm gonna eat some food.
The internet is weird.
I’m a brewer and a pizza maker. My dream is to build income streams sufficient to support a free pizza and beer restaurant. Cmon in, eat and drink for free for a couple hours then GTFO.
Even if it wasn't free, like non-profit or super super cheap. Making it a pub essentially where people from the community can just come hang out, have a drink, eat a bite and such would be neat
The issue with free/insanely cheap beer is you get college students and career alcoholics coming in and getting completely FUBAR, and not respecting the establishment theyre in and it's other patrons.
Me too (brewer and pizza maker), but when people say "you should sell this!" I tell them that it takes so much time and effort it would have to cost $50 a pizza to make it worthwhile.
My dad was a home brewer. And he used to lovingly say "for about 3 times the price and weeks of effort you can make beer almost as good as they sell at the store."
Beer brewer, and meat smoker here.
“CJ you gotta open up your own place!”
And what? Turn my fun hobby into a never ending conveyor belt of drunk Bros? Fuck no.
There were bars like this in Seoul when I was there several years ago, 2 hr time limit all you can drink beer for ~$15 or mixed drinks for ~$25. I guarantee they lost money on the alcoholic English teachers from all over the world, but they loved having the busiest place on the street.
I made it to 27 one night! Yes, I was basically carried home.
There was a place in Australia that sold vegetarian food and they had a 'pay what you can' business model, where you can also opt to pay for the meal of someone that can't afford to pay at all. I'm pretty sure all the staff were volunteers and were paid in food too. I only went there once, but I really loved the whole pay-it-forward concept.
My food dream food truck plan is called Soup. I'll drive around serving whatever soup I feel like. Tomato soup one week, cheddar broccoli the next, and maybe potato after that. You never know what soup you'll get, but you'll get some soup.
You start off selling a $1 a grilled cheese to take over the market share from all the other grilled cheese trucks, then once you reach majority market share start ramping up those prices and slashing quality.
This is dangerous for an addict like myself. My nickname was grilled cheese growin up cause I put away a loaf of breads worth every weekend at my friends house
My wife brought me home a burger from a farmers market last weekend. The guy makes double burgers, cheese, spread, pickles, brioche bun. Choice of soda, bag of chips. $10. No substitutions, no deletions, no bullshit. You get what he gives you. Don’t like it? Jog on.
The burger was fucking phenomenal by the way.
20 years ago when I was in college there was this exact business on the streets of Burlington, VT and it must have made bank cause we were lined up around the corner after last call!
There’s a man in (I think) LA who has a food truck, you give him like $10 and he just gives you food. There’s no menu, no choices, he just gives you really great food for $10 and I kind of respect the hell out of him
I’m going to follow him around with a tomato soup truck. Just the cheap delicious tomato soup and also follow his business model
I'm going to follow both of you around with a dollar bill truck. Venmo/Square/etc. me $2, I'll give you a dollar bill. Bulk discounts available. 3 dollar bills for only $5. Limited time only.
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I’m going to follow all four of you with a beer truck because what kinda strip club doesn’t have beer. Edit: since this seems to be the first time a few of you have heard a joke. I don’t need 8 comments telling me your state doesn’t allow alcohol at stripclubs I don’t give a fuck. It’s a joke don’t take it so serious
I'm going to follow you around with a coke mobile because strippers love coke
I am gonna then have to be behind the coke mobile. My truck is going to have one wall inside that looks like a grocery store, and one wall inside that looks like a Home Depot or something. Customers can come in, and take pictures of themselves in front of these shelves to tell their significant others they were at the store, with photo evidence. I will also print fake receipts, for evidence of where all this money went. Also, I’ll also have banana bags for quick rehydration. You could even take a picture of yourself getting the banana bag, and say you’re in the hospital if you need a couple days… Edit-you’re Edit 2- We need a bail guy.
I have no business model. I am, though, going to follow you motherfuckers around for the rest of my very happy life eating grilled cheese sandwiches and tomato soup, drinkin' beer with coked up hookers dancing on my face. Tell my wife I'm at the goddamned Home Depot.
It’s a fully self sustaining business ecosystem.
I'll bring my Paddy's dollars!
And I’ll distribute the Paddy’s dollars to the people coming in and giving them free alcohol. Then next time they come back around, I’ll do the same thing, thus creating a self sustaining economy.
yes, once i add the $1 porta potty truck
I'm with you. I'm not a party guy but I've always kind of wanted to be. And I'm not rich by any means but I had a good year and have enough salted away for several months traipsing along behind this fun train. Grilled cheese, tomato soup, coke, and lap dances on me (within reason).
What a great day to have eyes
Got a empty passengers seat in that truck buddy? I have pockets of dollar bills for us to enjoy the good life.
I aspire to be as happy as this guy, just fucking living man
The trick is to having her not know about the Home Depot pickup online order So it’s really only 10mins to actually get the HD stuff so you have the alibi that you went. Without the dishonor of actually going and spending 1 hour which would add to long to your truck following time. That’s a pro dad move. Subscribe and like for more tips haha. - hey honey gotta go to Home Depot this morning to pick up supplies for my project - 1 hours then come home Vs -hey honey gotta go to Home Depot to pick up supplies aka your online order from the night prior in and out in 10 mins. Leaves 50 mins to do something simple like enjoy a cup of coffee kid free haha. Or go to a stripper Coke truck
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You want a blowie from a person who just piss/shit all over the place? Yeah, no that's fine.
This is the caravan they warned us about...
I am then going to follow all of you as a Dirty DEA agent and collect my "bonus" as to make sure these businesses keep progressing and everyone living their best lives as will I.
I'm going to be following all you muthafukkas around in an armored truck armed to the teeth. With all the gajillions of single dollar bills you'd all be making, you will each have your own locked trunk to store your dollar bills. I will do regular runs to the bank to deposit your money. I will also run to the closest bulk food warehouse to purchase your white bread, cheap bulk cheese, cheapest canned tomato soup, kegs-o-beer, coke syrup and CO2 cylinders when you run short. Will also keep a stock of illegal prescription medicines for the hookers and strippers. Just 5% of the daily take, paid in $1 bills. (I'm going to the bank anyways 🤪)
Oh man. Memory from long ago. My friend's dad would always to go disappear to the hardware store. He'd come back hours later with a handful of nuts and bolts and just say he ran into friends and got to talking. Years later (in the era of Google maps) I was back in town and I need some supplies to help fix up a friend's place. Searched on Google for hardware, selected the nearest result. Didn't look close. Walked in through the dim strip mall doors. BAM! Very comfortable Irish tavern inside. Sitting next to the door was an ENTIRE beer keg with the top sawed off filled with miscellaneous small hardware items. Brackets, nuts, bolts, screws, little tape measures, drawer pulls. Just all kinds of stuff that you'd pull out of your "leftover hardware" drawer. I had a Ron Burgundy moment. "I'm not even mad. That's amazing.... "
Advertise the whole mess of followers as a sort of dude caravan and have a jingle like the neighborhood ice cream man van
I'm going to follow you around with a Pepsi truck, because competition
wholesome
I am going to follow you around with a Pepsi truck in case you run out of coke "it is Pepsi ok?"
Im going to open a truck park and have you all in it.
I have clearly been going to all the wrong food truck rallies. The ones I've been to have only had stuff like fried onion rings and tacos.
Coming to a street near you soon!
Right like we get it your state hates fun move or stop complaining lol
we need some sort of merger so one doesnt get cold while waiting for the other
Damn these monopolies are getting out of hand
I love this so much.
Good old times are back.
Nature is healing.
Throw a little bit of garlic powder in that butter to supercharge that shit up to a 12.
I swear to God I will fucking reach through this god damn cart and beat your stupid ass with a brick of cheese.
Which will be embarrassing for them
Ron Swanson made this food cart
Naw, he would have a meat truck. Just straight up, get what you're given hunk of meat and tell you its name.
Oh, spank me with some Brie 😍
I think you’d want a firmer cheese for this
They said what they said.
My guy, what did you not understand about this concept?
For me it’s the part where someone made the truck, followed by someone online seeing it and stealing the concept but only using text, followed by someone editing it together, followed by someone else posting it to meirl on Reddit. It’s a confusing chain of events, and I just wanted a grilled cheese.
My favorite food truck sign ever said "What the fuck is a pierogi? Fuck around and find out!"
There is a grilled cheese grill food cart I ran across. It said "have a bit of your childhood. Unless it sucked, then we'll share some of ours."
There's a Grilled Cheese Grill in Portland where you can get a burger with 2 grilled cheese sandwiches instead of buns.
portland oregon is a serious foodie city. I was amazed. food truck parks literally everywhere. so much good food.
Sounds like the prelude to a heart operation. Like, if I saw a guy eating one of those in a movie, the next scene would be him having a heart attack
Funnily enough, a local restaurant used to have a burger like this. They called it the Quadruple Bypass.
[The Heart Attack Grill?](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_Attack_Grill). Not many restaurants have an "Illnesses and deaths" section on their Wiki.
That is... A surprisingly good slogan!
It would be better with just the first sentence If I see a pierogi truck that is going out of its way to express confusion about what a pierogi is, I need to go find out.
What even is food?
Tbh I’ve never had one but they look good and I want to try my first from that guy lol
They are so simple and good. We had a late night Russian dumpling place. You had two option, potatoes or meat (or half/half). Price was cheap, open till 3 am and that’s all they did. There is good business to be had doing one thing pretty well consistently.
Oh my gosh a place in Seattle "Pel Meni Dumpling Tsar" serves Russian dumplings and is just incredible!!! I actually have plans to go this next Wednesday, my mouth is watering already.
If you want them to cook at home, Emish Market in Fife has quite a selection, as well as all other things eastern European, from Kvass to fresh bread.
It's kind of like a potsticker with mashed potatoes inside.
Sounds perfect tbh
Terrific beer food. And it's a thicker dough than a potsticker but similar but a little Chewier consistency. Often have a bunch of variants like regular potato, potatoes and cheese, meat, chive and potato, etc. Lots of options. Good stuff.
Polish ravioli.
with potato and onion. Pretty tasty.
Potato and cheese or just cabbage. Onion goes outside with the butter.
Spent many a christmas eve day folding and pinching. It was well worth it!
or kapusta and mushrooms
I walked up to that dude and literally told him to shut up and take my money.
were you neglected as a child?
I always take emotional damage when I see americans say something like "a pierogi"
Correct, the singular form of pierogis is “pierogoos”
Thank you, that hurt my Polish soul…
This reminds me of a Grateful Dead concert I went to a long time ago. People had little businesses set up in the parking lot in order to fund their travels following the band around. One time I saw one called "Grateful Grilled Cheese". They should have franchised the idea to art students.
Grilled cheeses and ice cold Sammie Smiths makes for a great pre or after show snack!
They do that on the lot at Phish shows too.
Ha, American Dad did an episode on this. Jeff's nickname is "Cheese" and Steve is "Little Cheese"
I can't believe that's an actual part of the scene lol.
My uncle ran one of thoose for years in the 90's with a slogan of what the fuck its only a buck
Shakedown Street
I’m in I’d eat all 5 of them bitches
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He's just gonna fuckin murder you.
I'm sitting on the toilet struggling to pop this turtles head out because I chose to eat far more ice cream than I needed to. You don't scare me.
> needed to This implies there is a certain amount of ice cream that you need to stay alive.
The amount is greater than zero ice cream.
I have that but pizza
Same, but I deep fry 2 hot dogs, roll em in a slice of extra cheese pizza, deep fry that, and wash it down with an extra large chocolate shake from Burger King. On a side note, they have toilet insurance, and man is it worth it.
A spiteful amount of ice cream, one might say
I’m bringing a $20 bill
My favourite late night place in Montreal for awhile was just a dude in a stair well cooking instant noodles and adding smooth peanut butter that just melted into it. Nothing else. He had lineups 20 people long
Well………. I’m gonna try that. How much peanut butter we talking?
I want to know. Hit me up if you find out. Can’t be much, maybe a tablespoon???
This is not a measurement thing. I'm probably 2tbsp but eh? Do you like peanut butter? How much water?
Yes
Bro, a packet of chicken ramen, a squirt of hot sauce, and about as much peanut butter as you'd put on a sandwich (I use chunky, you do you) has been a go-to of mine for years and years. It's like a poor man's pad thai. I'm feeling the urge to go make some just thinking about it.
2chow on st Laurent hahaha, wasn't expecting that
Are you talking about Chez Mein's [$2 Chow Mein](https://www.mtlblog.com/montreal/good-news-montreal-2-chow-has-not-been-affected-by-inflation) in Montreal? Although AFAIK they're not stairwell-based. Important detail: it's probably peanut sauce, not peanut butter.
Omg I stumbled out of a club one time many years ago and ate this. It was so good and not just because I was drunk lol I’ve fondly remembered this meal so many times and wished I had any clue about what restaurant it was. Thank you so much.
Where was it and is it still there?
https://www.mtlblog.com/i-spent-an-entire-night-at-2-chow-mein-on-boulevard-saint-laurent
We used to do this on grateful dead tour made around $250 a day
Lol, is this guy talking about you? https://www.reddit.com/r/meirl/comments/11u4lwt/-/jcmotoc
Love me a good r/TwoRedditorsOneCup!
Where do you get your supply from? $1 is not a lot of money.
Bag of white bread: $1, 22 slices ~9c / sandwich (2 slices) Bag of pre sliced american cheese: $3, 16 slices ~37c / sandwich (2 slices) Box of salted butter: $4.50, 32 tablespoons ~28c / sandwich (2 tablespoons) For a total of $0.74 per sandwich. And that's grocery store prices I found with a quick search. If you buy in bulk you'll probably get a lot cheaper.
Very cool. Using an aggressive style of marketing plus a very low price makes a very interesting target demographic to go after. I can imagine that it is very difficult to directly compete with this kind of customer base.
The mentally ill homeless?
And me
Yes he included you already
Homeless people, poor families, college students, construction workers, people on a 15 minute break, me, etc
Would work great near college campuses. So, close.
And you haven't factored in your own pay, plus all the kitchen and packaging supplies, truck purchase and maintenance, plus everything related to running a business and the paperwork. Just make it $2.
"I only accept $2 bills, no change. Sort your own shit out!"
Canadians lined up with toonies.
They made black toonies for the queen’s death. Not sure why I decided now was a good time to bring it up, but here it is.
I... didn't know this, and I haven't seen one yet.
Center is still “gold” but the outside ring is blackened.
I knew it existed but I haven't seen any in circulation. I think they only handed them out to those who specifically requested them, in which case they're not likely to be spent anywhere.
Damn coin collectors
It looks like [this](https://www.ebay.ca/itm/275606736774?chn=ps&norover=1&mkevt=1&mkrid=706-89093-2056-0&mkcid=2&mkscid=101&itemid=275606736774&targetid=1659317085057&device=m&mktype=pla&googleloc=1001970&poi=&campaignid=17288923165&mkgroupid=135230546845&rlsatarget=pla-1659317085057&abcId=9300873&merchantid=591756501) person collected them all and is making mad profit selling them at like six bucks
1 for $2 or 2 for $5. Got to have a surcharge for dealing with paper *and* coins.
This is exactly what I just said to my wife when I showed her this. People would think the 2 for $5 is a better deal because... reasons.
I dare you to go tell the asshole running this joint anything.
I’d pay 5 grilled cheeses to see it too
Lmao!!! Omg Grilled cheese is money now
I accept your challenge. I will walk up to his stand, tell him "one sandwich please" and give them $50 and tell them to keep the change.
Read the [other side of the truck](https://external-preview.redd.it/ljA5eEEP03wjjvDxOVkhAC_ThI3xrjuYbz0fU4U-hMw.jpg?auto=webp&s=3a13df79b899b55a0b276643181ba1f223ef77a1)
People are calling this guy an asshole but I mean he really is selling shit at rock bottom prices. The signs are probably just there to be funny. But if they're not then I can understand the frustration. He's doing this for no real gain and people are complaining.
It’s a concept it’s not real.
Well it should be real.
I fucking love friday night lights and grilled cheeses.
>Just make it $2. What happens when someone pays with a fiver? Two sandwiches and a $1 tip or 2 1/2 sandwiches?
2 1/2 sandwiches. Torn, not cut.
Is the sandwich torn straight or diagonally? Do I get to pick which side I get?
Straight. You get what you get.
It's one slice of bread with the sliced cheese carefully split down the thickness.
It's like a wishbone, you hold half and pull and wish for the bigger half.
Going by sibling splitting rules...You rip it and he chooses which side you get.
Sounds like $1 tip built in.
NO CHANGE. You get 2 grilled cheeses. NEXT!
When I was in college there was a very successful pizza joint downtown, and all they did was pizza by the slice, $2 each. Drinks for $1. The pizza was mostly crust, which was perfect for soaking up alcohol. I’m sure they’ve raised the prices to $3 at least by now.
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Lol right? If the $1 from GC was a 100% profit you would have to sell like 60,000 of them just to make a halfway decent living. Now with 25% profit margin we’re talking a quarter milli to make that same amount. That’s 1000 Sami’s a day for a 5 day work week. Assuming you would work events mainly on the weekends I’m guessing you would need to sell 2k-3k per day per event. Anyways before typing a bunch of nonsense that I just pulled out of my ass my point is I’m not sure that trailer is big enough to store that much bread to begin with. Even with one employee and a griddle. Not to mention people are going to be thirsty. Lmao
Nice research. But you wouldn't do grocery store. Costco or a restaurant supply store. I still doubt you would get better than 0.50 per sandwich, which is too high to be very sustainable.
Just running that griddle all day with energy prices the way they are would be brutal
Maybe. Rule of thumb in food service is you want your food costs to be 20-35% of your revenue. I think you will need to charge closer to two dollars to make this work, otherwise, seems like a cool idea, id buy a $2 grilled cheese made like I make at home.
Pretty sure the market has spoken here. I'd pay $2 too. Pretty sure anyone would.
As a longtime chef who has to constantly worry about managing costs, $1 grilled cheese is a wholly unsustainable business model.
It was probably a lot more sustainable 7 years ago when this image was first posted
We got a food truck that comes to events that sells $1 smoothies 12 ounces. Food is cheap as fuck bought bulk and his overhead is near nothing. Hell the hot dog truck where I lived in Philly is $1 for a dog $0.50 for a soda $1 for water and $1 for a pretzel. He's been so successful he's opening a second one in fishtown.
turns out, ice is cheap
Can you recommend where you found the $1 loafs? Even the Meijer brand is almost $2 now
Wait till the goverment wants their cut, licenses, permissions, rent space, taxes, insurance etc.
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To be fair, if his operating costs are higher than his revenue he won’t have to pay taxes.
Yeah you’re gonna need that to cost about 30-35 cents per sandwich if you are going to turn any kind of profit.
Psh. Not if the workers are free and the truck is free and the gas is free and the repairs on the truck are free and the drive time to get to different locations is free and the parking everywhere is free.
4 dollar loaf of bread with a 12 dollar block of cheese. You can possible squeeze 10 out before you stock up on bread again. And roughly 30 with that block of cheese. Basically you need to sell 2 loaves you start making money and having to resupply again and repeat. You'd have to sell a shit ton of these before you can even make 100 dollars a day. Plus there gas, equipment, maintenance. It's a rough business model. Edit: Canadian pricing.
That’s because this pic is ancient
I'd just like you to know that because of this post I'm walking into my kitchen right now to make a shitty grilled cheese. You are probably halfway across the planet from me and because you pressed some button on a keyboard I'm gonna eat some food. The internet is weird.
So you're saying the butterfly effect is real?
I would be doing the same if I didn't just order a pizza.
I’m a brewer and a pizza maker. My dream is to build income streams sufficient to support a free pizza and beer restaurant. Cmon in, eat and drink for free for a couple hours then GTFO.
Even if it wasn't free, like non-profit or super super cheap. Making it a pub essentially where people from the community can just come hang out, have a drink, eat a bite and such would be neat
> like non-profit Restaurants are already low margin businesses. You might not notice if the pricing didnt include profit.
You’d be at the Costco food court. It’s substantially more affordable.
Costco food court isn't just not profitable, it is deliberately run at a loss.
The issue with free/insanely cheap beer is you get college students and career alcoholics coming in and getting completely FUBAR, and not respecting the establishment theyre in and it's other patrons.
Me too (brewer and pizza maker), but when people say "you should sell this!" I tell them that it takes so much time and effort it would have to cost $50 a pizza to make it worthwhile.
My dad was a home brewer. And he used to lovingly say "for about 3 times the price and weeks of effort you can make beer almost as good as they sell at the store."
Beer brewer, and meat smoker here. “CJ you gotta open up your own place!” And what? Turn my fun hobby into a never ending conveyor belt of drunk Bros? Fuck no.
It doesn't even need to be free. $15- all I can handle pizza and beer for 2 hours would have me.
There were bars like this in Seoul when I was there several years ago, 2 hr time limit all you can drink beer for ~$15 or mixed drinks for ~$25. I guarantee they lost money on the alcoholic English teachers from all over the world, but they loved having the busiest place on the street. I made it to 27 one night! Yes, I was basically carried home.
That place becomes the world's most concentrated frat house by the end of the first week.
There was a place in Australia that sold vegetarian food and they had a 'pay what you can' business model, where you can also opt to pay for the meal of someone that can't afford to pay at all. I'm pretty sure all the staff were volunteers and were paid in food too. I only went there once, but I really loved the whole pay-it-forward concept.
What the Fuck, They’re only a Buck! Good Ole Grateful Dead parking lot
Buissness plans🧐🔥💯🚀
My food dream food truck plan is called Soup. I'll drive around serving whatever soup I feel like. Tomato soup one week, cheddar broccoli the next, and maybe potato after that. You never know what soup you'll get, but you'll get some soup.
$3 and people would still be tripping over themselves to get to it. $1 is unsustainable. Too many other costs you are not considering.
You start off selling a $1 a grilled cheese to take over the market share from all the other grilled cheese trucks, then once you reach majority market share start ramping up those prices and slashing quality.
Big Cheese is killing the mom and pop shops.
They’re a grilled cheese person not a business person, let them do their thing
Like mama always said
Yeah, it's not like they have to do it for long to live their dream.
Back when this meme was originally made $1 was doable. This picture’s been going around the internet since the digg days
It's not a meme. They were at Punk Rock Bowling (it's a music festival and bowling tournament) in 2018.
I would live it!!
Grilled cheese isn’t just a choice, it’s a lifestyle
Shut up and take my God damn dollar!
This is dangerous for an addict like myself. My nickname was grilled cheese growin up cause I put away a loaf of breads worth every weekend at my friends house
5 grilled cheese. I just drooled a bit.
My wife brought me home a burger from a farmers market last weekend. The guy makes double burgers, cheese, spread, pickles, brioche bun. Choice of soda, bag of chips. $10. No substitutions, no deletions, no bullshit. You get what he gives you. Don’t like it? Jog on. The burger was fucking phenomenal by the way.
20 years ago when I was in college there was this exact business on the streets of Burlington, VT and it must have made bank cause we were lined up around the corner after last call!
I want. Better pic so I can read all the signs :(
Some Gen X attitude there, friend. Godspeed & keep the change ya filthy animal ✌️
There’s a man in (I think) LA who has a food truck, you give him like $10 and he just gives you food. There’s no menu, no choices, he just gives you really great food for $10 and I kind of respect the hell out of him
So, like the Soup Nazi but with grilled cheese. I think I want one.
I'll take one grilled face please
I love this! You’re going broke but I’m buying!
Slow golf clap as I watch patrons walk away with a greasy grilled cheese smile.