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Title: Airstream Excella 500 Food Trailer, $150k
Post by: chuck peterson on March 20, 2020, 08:26:54 AM
Sssssssoooooooooooo o..........

Who's got the truck to pull this to rallies?

https://newhaven.craigslist.org/tro/d/hialeah-airstream-excella-500-food/7086118587.html


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Title: Re: Airstream Excella 500 Food Trailer, $150k
Post by: Lannis on March 20, 2020, 10:17:32 AM
If someone will buy it and pull it, I'll help with the cooking!   Looks like a nice setup.

Lannis
Title: Re: Airstream Excella 500 Food Trailer, $150k
Post by: twowheeladdict on March 20, 2020, 10:23:33 AM
What kind of money do those food trailers make?  Seems like a huge investment. 
Title: Re: Airstream Excella 500 Food Trailer, $150k
Post by: Lannis on March 20, 2020, 10:30:30 AM
We've got restaurateurs here who know more than I do, but I'm guessing that this one would be the kind that an organization, club, or non-profit would use to support their activities, rather than being a yakitori, gyro/kebab, or taco trailer that someone would pull to a village festival or park on a street in a tourist town ....

Lannis
Title: Re: Airstream Excella 500 Food Trailer, $150k
Post by: oldbike54 on March 20, 2020, 10:37:31 AM
 The only way to make that work from a profit standpoint would be to spend 30 weeks a year at events like Daytona or Sturgis . The investment involved in buying the trailer , which is overpriced to begin with , is only the first component in the process . Factor in insurance , food costs , a truck to pull it with , labor , permits ...well , you see the problem .

 Dusty
Title: Re: Airstream Excella 500 Food Trailer, $150k
Post by: craigclu on March 20, 2020, 10:40:34 AM
If you cleared $1.00 per burger, net... After 150,000 units sold, it would then be gravy!
Title: Re: Airstream Excella 500 Food Trailer, $150k
Post by: oldbike54 on March 20, 2020, 10:48:27 AM
If you cleared $1.00 per burger, net... After 150,000 units sold, it would then be gravy!

 The number would be closer to 250,000 , and that's if the equipment lasts that long  :laugh:

 Dusty
Title: Re: Airstream Excella 500 Food Trailer, $150k
Post by: Shorty on March 20, 2020, 10:53:07 AM
And here I thought that we already had a food truck. It's a little white minivan with Galveston tags on it.....  :wink:   :thumb:
Title: Re: Airstream Excella 500 Food Trailer, $150k
Post by: Darren Williams on March 20, 2020, 12:34:34 PM
Food Trucks!    :food:

Debra has found an authentic taco truck in South OKC, 20ish miles away, that has great burritos with sauces to make your mouth water.  She buys from them about once a week, wishing they were closer.
Title: Re: Airstream Excella 500 Food Trailer, $150k
Post by: delrod on March 20, 2020, 02:00:37 PM
Let's see 10 bucks per raffle ticket x 15000. Probably make that work at Cedar Vale
Title: Re: Airstream Excella 500 Food Trailer, $150k
Post by: Mayor_of_BBQ on March 20, 2020, 02:05:52 PM
Dusty is right here

many have heard the siren song of higher margins, lower overhead etc of food trucks....  But there is very little money left after expenses and your biz is dependent on weather, crowds, and very good marketing so that folks can find you. I've crunched the numbers and opening is food truck isn't starting a business, it's creating a very grueling job for yourself (hat tip to The E-Myth Revisited)
Title: Re: Airstream Excella 500 Food Trailer, $150k
Post by: Tom H on March 20, 2020, 02:21:14 PM
In the past, food trucks mainly dealt with businesses and had routes. I worked at one place where 3 trucks would show up for lunch.

Now it seems that they all want to be specialty trucks and just go to the food nite events.

There are still trucks cratering to businesses. There are normally 2 at the container docks on my way to the marina. One is a 20 footish trailer and the other is a standard truck. The truck serves breakfasts, burgers to tostada salads. The trailer mainly specializes in seafood, but makes killer carne asada tacos. That reminds me, next Tuesday, taco Tuesday!

Tom
Title: Re: Airstream Excella 500 Food Trailer, $150k
Post by: larrys on March 21, 2020, 08:30:42 AM
Back in my construction worker days, a Roach Coach showed up every day either at coffee time or lunch at most every site I worked. Haven't seen one in years. The Spanish speaking guys that populate construction sites these days bring their own lunches.
Larry
Title: Re: Airstream Excella 500 Food Trailer, $150k
Post by: Lannis on March 21, 2020, 08:45:46 AM
Well, it sounds like everyone's agreeing that this thing would NOT be intended as a money-making thing like a burrito stand, but as a support kitchen for an event or club organizer.   I've seen rigs like this at tornado- and hurricane-recovery venues, as well as at big political gatherings run by a state club.

Lannis