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Does cooking onions make people wanna buy sausages?
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What the heck is up with some people?
What's the deal? For 4 bucks you can come to my cart and have an all-beef hot dog and a pop. Yet some people feel the need to let me know of their displeasure in the fact that my hot dogs are $3.
Let's forget for a moment that my prices are the same as every other cart in the city. Let also forget that the only place to get a dog cheaper is Costco. Why do people feel the need to let me know of their displeasure in the prices? I mean if you were upset about the price of hamburger meat at the grocery store, would you go off on a tirade in front of your kids, loud enough that the butcher could hear about how they would have to wait to eat lunch cuz the price is ridiculous. Would you complain at McDonalds if you didn't have enough $ for a burger and a drink. Saying you hope you didn't choke, all the while a twenty is falling out of your wallet. Probably not eh. Yet both of those happened today and are a common occurrence.
So for 3 bucks you can have a 7 inch all beef Schneiders hot dog on a Dumpsters sesame seed sausage bun and it will even be barbecued for you. Then you can load it up with as much of the 11 choices of condiments that we provide (more than most keep in their fridge). Plus we provide napkins, ice, propane, man hours for shopping prep and cooking and gas to and from. Now do you honestly think that $3 is highway robbery? Come on!
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...we all scream for ice cream!
It never fails. Every child that sees the big ice cream cone on the front of my freezer throws a little fit when their mom or dad says no. Why is that? Its like crack cocaine for kids. They see a photo and need their next fix. Or how about that creepy pied piper, kiddy fidler song they play from those ice cream trucks. My daughter has never ever seen one of those trucks, has no idea what they sell yet when she hears the song play she gets all excited. It’s crazy.
Its marketing to children. And I kinda have an issue with it. I mean as adults we are supposed to see though blatant marketing messages, but as children we believe what we see cuz we were conditioned to do as adults say. I wonder if it’s a bit sleazy to market to kids. I'm not talking cigarettes and alcohol, that's a given. Those marketing people are soulless. I mean subtle messages like ice cream songs or packaging that makes kids go nuts.
Yet here I sit with my freezer that was provided to me by the ice cream company with a 4 scoop ice cream cone on it (a bit excessive don't you think) and every child who walks by pesters their parents for a hit off the bong of that creamy smooth dessert wrapped in a crisp sugary waffle cone. And those who don't get it, get the shakes and throw a fit.
A wise person once said "ice cream, ice cream, we all scream for ice cream". I believe his name was Dickie Dee.
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Event: towel tent sale
So I'm doing a tent sale event and at the request of the company I am doing Sausage, dogs, burgers, fries and ice cream. Needless to say that is a lot of product for a one man band. I was a bit nervous that it would be too much but not a lot of people are ordering the fries or ice cream and so far its been manageable. Business has been good so far and for a minute I had forgotten what it was like to be busy after less than mediocre business the past two events. There is nothing more devastating than when you are out there trying to provide for your family and it seems that everything you do turns to crap. But here I sit reminded of how blessed I am. On a lighter note yesterday as I was setting up I was about to unload a freezer with ice cream in it and for a moment the little voice inside my head suggested I take out all the ice cream before lifting it out of the panel van. However laziness won out, I moved it with everything in it and could barely walk when I woke up this morning. Why don't I ever listen to that incredibly wise little voice in my head? He's always right. Sent on the TELUS Mobility network with BlackBerry
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You've gotta spend money to make money
A wise, well I am not sure he was wise, but he was a business man, or I guess he could have been homeless and just said that “You have to spend money to make money”. It seems reasonable doesn’t it? I mean when you start a business, even ongoing, there are hundreds of little things you have to buy. For the Funnel cakes business its no different. There’s groceries to make the dough, gas for the generator, propane for the fyers, staffing. Etc, etc, etc. This past week we brought in $2800.00 and when all the expenses were tallied up, we spent $2300 in product and gas and such… and we made $500. 7 days, 15 hours a day and we made $500.
That of course doesn’t include the broken brake line that we incurred on the way home last night. Its funny that we noticed the brakes were out almost the exact same spot we ran out of gas the previous night. Not funny as much as it is ironic. Is it irony? Not sure.
So now I have $500 to put towards next weeks event. Only 500 bucks for all the product, float, propane and it isnt enough. Seems to me that the proper saying should be “you have to make money to spend money to make money” and that is what isn’t happening that well in the land of “Street mmmEats” (my business name).
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When it rains...
So today was extremely slow… didn’t sell a lot of funnel cakes until the end of the night and we stayed open till 11:30pm. When we went to leave the gates were locked and as I tried to turn around I nicked the brake line on my car… no brakes, no gas last night. Its like there is a force conspiring against me on this event.
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Out of Gas!
So after 3 slowish days at Walton, I have just found out that the busy day we were supposed to have on Sunday will not be busy at all due to our location. I am severely discouraged at this point I am starting to rethink my new line of work. Oh and I just ran out of gas between my house and the middle of nowhere. Sweet!
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Just one of the vintage vehicles you get stuck behind on the way to Walton. Sent on the TELUS Mobility network with BlackBerry
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The view from my booth
We are right by the finish line. Its real noisy.
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