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Mason64

Mason64

Mason64

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I would like you all to try your best and put me off doing this.

i want to buy a Catering Trailer for making donuts and go to a few shows on sat weekends to make abit of cash. i work full time in a computer shop so i just want 2 do this for maybe weekends and see how it goes and maybe go full time. ( defo in the summers )

i looking around and i can get the whole kit for £1000 so basiclly thats your business set up just need to find shows and so on to go to and pricing for how much i need to make to start off ( say the grounds cost £300 a day ) so i will need £600 to break even with wages formyself stock and time.)

would it work or is there to many people doing it and am going in blind so i need abit of help.
 
I can't really comment on the viability of the project, but I'd certainly think Winter was the time to be buying the van/trailer as it's low season and nobody wants them sitting around. Much like bike and cabriolet prices drop in the winter.

What are the regs? Health checks? Do you need a license?
 
Around here food trailers are mostly monopolised by a couple of very large families who I wouldnt want to cross. Ever. :D
 
I think you will get a visit from the current local mobile donut van competition if you go anywhere near their patch if you know what I mean :)
 
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true! hmm but business is business. then again its not worth having spent what ever price and stuff and it getting broken in to and damaged.
 
My friend is in the outside catering trade and does afford a good living from this, however after talking to him about it a lot, he does suggest the problem with getting into the game is getting onto shows, inorder to get onto shows you must first know the right people to get in contact with then such as download festival he did this year, you are subject to a large pitch hire cost.
 
Mason64 said:
true! hmm but business is business. then again its not worth having spent what ever price and stuff and it getting broken in to and damaged.
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More likely to find a nice glowing pile of embers :D
 
Its seriously hard graft. The manager of a vineyard I used to work at had 2 trailers, one jacket potatoes and the other was a pizza trailer. He was working mon-fri at the vineyard and sat-sun at shows around the uk. He used to work his buttocks off, but it pays off as long as you put the work in. Not sure exactly how much he was making, but it was enough to buy him a Lotus Elise.
 
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