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Flash Equals Cash in The Concession Business

January 31st, 2011 |

Below is Part 5 of the email I received from Dave, an experienced and successful concession vendor. He has a lot to offer and gives me motivation and hopefully you as well. He discusses how important it is for your stand or trailer to look good and offers some sage advice. Here we go:

As you can see, it had a graphics wrap on it for Blue Bunny Ice Cream. It looked really good. I thought to myself, why not look into getting a graphics wrap done for lemonade? With lemonade, you don't have the benefit of aroma like you do with donuts, so you really need to draw people in with their eyes. And, as I said earlier, FLASH IS CASH. So I found a graphics design company that did vehicle wraps. I told them that I wanted a wrap that would make people thirsty for lemonade. $3600 later, this is what my trailer looked like:

You may say $3600 is a lot of money to spend for something like that, but I look at it as an investment. It will draw me more business, and pay for itself over and over again over the years. I opened that trailer on August 15th of this year, and grossed more on my opening day selling JUST ONE ITEM out of there (lemonade) than I did on opening day with the donut trailer back in 2006, selling a whole menu. Because my donut trailer wasn't flashy, and you couldn't see from afar what I was selling.

Here's what the inside looks like now. I picked out some nice formica at Home Depot and had my dad build me a custom counter top. I installed the sinks myself, and have the squeezing station to the right of them.

Here's what the trailer looks like when it's in operation:

Notice the basket of fresh lemons on the counter. I have my staff wash the lemons and fill up the basket, and leave the basket out on the counter where people can see that yes, we are using fresh lemons. It is a visual that helps entice people to want to buy a lemonade. The concession business is all about tickling a customer's buying bone! Each lemonade uses just half a lemon, some simple syrup, ice, and water. I get $3 for a cup. HIGHLY profitable. I literally just stock the trailer with ice and lemons at the beginning of the morning, let my staff do all the work, and collect the money at the end of the day. I have never worked that trailer myself. It gets so busy on a hot day that I have to staff it with 2 people.

I was reading on your website that you were considering trying to get into a Memorial Day celebration to sell mini donuts. Let me caution you that mini donuts are NOT a warm weather item. My sales on donuts could go down as much as 50% on a hot day. But because of the way I have my menu structured now in that trailer, I always bring home a consistent income because on those hot days when I sell less donuts, I'll sell a lot more smoothies, canned beverages, bottled water, iced tea, and iced coffee. If you do decide to go the concession route with the mini donuts, I'd strongly suggest getting a tent setup. Buy a small cargo trailer, inside of which you could fit your tent poles and equipment. Get a professional looking tent with some good graphics on the outside of it from a company such as this:

http://www.bnbpartytents.com/tents/concession_tents.html

You can get a business logo made for cheap at www.thelogocompany.com. Keep your outfit very professional looking!

Put the donut machine in an area up front where people can see the donuts being made. If you are able to attract people to you with a flashy tent, and they become captivated with seeing the donuts being made fresh, they will be more likely to buy. And don't be afraid to give free samples!! I would probably even sell more donuts if people could see my machine making them. Unfortunately, the setup of my trailer prohibits that. But if I were to do it over again, I'd do it differently, and make sure that my donut machine is very visible to the public. And if I were you, I'd consider offering a good warm weather item along with the donuts to drink. Bottled water is a must, but also maybe do fresh squeezed lemonade... it's easy enough to do and VERY PROFITABLE. Also, the smoothies are easy and profitable (Island Oasis is a good national company to work with). Just add ice and smoothie mix and blend (and if you are doing this, be sure to get a GOOD blender.... a $350 Vitamix is what I have, and it pulverizes the ice into almost a fine dust, to make my smoothies super smooth). If you want good product, and repeat customers, you have to have good equipment. People ask me how I keep my coffee so hot... I tell them I have good coffee makers, and good airpots. Being successful is all about pleasing the customer, and getting repeat business. But if you are going somewhere for the first time, you really have to draw them to you with flash, and then WOW them with quality. They will then remember you when you go there the next year. Don't expect to make it big right away. Every business takes time to build. The concession business has been very good to me, and I plan to make a career out of it. Good luck, and if you have any questions, please feel free to ask.

Take care,

Dave

Thanks Dave!!!

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Concession Business Advice from an Experienced Vendor

January 30th, 2011 |

Author: Concession Business

Below is Part 4 of the email I received from a successful vendor who sells mini donuts and other items at his trailers. Thanks Dave for sharing this info with our readers!

Also, you never want to get too far ahead of yourself with making the donuts. I'll start the morning off with one batch, which gets me about 12 bags. When I get down to 2 bags, I'll start another batch. When I start frying, I turn my exhaust hood on, and the aroma gets drawn out of the trailer into the field. And this aroma draws people to my trailer! Smell sells when it comes to donuts! I've seen some vendors with smell-sensitive things like kettle corn or mini donuts who want to make their entire product first thing in the morning, so they can just sit there and sell and collect money for the rest of the day. Then they sit there and wonder why they can't move their product. Smell sells... trust me! Make them as you need them, that way the smell will keep drawing people to you, and people will get them nice and hot when they're best. And if people get donuts that they think are really good, they'll be repeat customers. It took me 5 years selling at the same location to build my business to where it now is. That trailer is a stationary unit by the way... it stays at the market year-round, and has not moved from that spot since 2006. I usually sell between 150 and 200 bags of donuts on a typical day now... I think my record day in 2010 was 236 bags. There are days I cannot keep up with the demand... I've got people placing orders and waiting, and I just keep making them as fast as I can. It takes the machine about 1 minute to make 1 bag of donuts. So there are mornings I'm literally making $3 a minute for hours. And that's just on donuts. I sell so much coffee that I needed to invest in a second commercial airpot coffee maker. I could not keep up with just one machine. I sell usually around 30 airpots worth of coffee in a morning. I also do tea, hot chocolate, iced tea, iced coffee, smoothies, canned soda, and bottled water. It is a relatively simple menu, but the trailer runs like a well-oiled machine, and everything I sell is very high profit. I buy bottled water cases at Costco... it amounts to about 15 cents a bottle, and I sell it for $1.50. On a hot summer day, I could easily sell 50-70 bottles of water. Another thing I should mention, which I think is a large part of why I have been successful there at the market, is because I keep my trailer very clean. People like to see that. I also like to use all professional signage... I think hand made signage is tacky and looks unprofessional. I got those "Dave's Donuts" signs made up last year at a professional sign shop. People want to shop at a trailer that looks professional and clean, and if you have a good aroma coming from it, that's a plus as well.

Back in 2007, a fresh squeezed lemonade stand opened up 2 spots up from my donut trailer. It was a simple setup, just a table and umbrella and ice bucket, but damn... they did a good business! They'd have a line on any sunny hot day during the summer. That space had been vacant for a while, and I was kicking myself for not starting up something like that on my own. I told myself, if and when the time comes that they close, I'll take over. Well, 2009 came along and they never returned. 2010 came and the spot was still vacant. So I finally took some initiative and talked to the market manager, and he agreed to rent me the spot to sell lemonade. So then I had to find a trailer, outfit it how I would need it for lemonade, and get it to the market ASAP because the hot summer days were quickly ticking away. I found a used 6'x10' concession trailer on Craigslist that I thought would do the trick. It's my only "real" concession trailer... a Haulmark, not a homemade job. And what a difference in quality! I will NEVER buy another homemade concession trailer. The Haulmark is very well built. No leaks, and a solid floor. Here's a video of what it looked like when I first bought it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3V2w5cNmDIU

Stay tuned tomorrow when Dave talks about the importance of your stand or trailer and why it should look good. He gives you some advice on where to find wraps and things to make it look its best!

Still wondering where to start a successful concession business? Below is an excellent site to get you started, it will help you answer a lot of questions you may have. There is no limit to the number of questions a future business owner can ask, this site really breaks it down for you. Definitely a good read.

Click for Help with Starting your Concession Business

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Concession Vendor Advice Part 3

January 29th, 2011 |

Author: Concession Business

Below is Part 3 of the email I received from Dave. I am posting it for everyone to learn from, with his permission.

It didn't start off easy for me at the flea market. My first week, I paid $125 in rent and took in $148 from sales. It was hard for me to sell the donuts. People didn't know what mini donuts were, and to be quite honest, I don't even know if people knew what I was selling. I would put a sample cup of donuts on my coffee table to try to sell them, but still, I would only move maybe 10-15 bags (I sell them in bags of 13) in a day. I started up my ice cream machine, and blew the whole flea market out of power two weeks in a row. There wasn't enough amperage to run it, come to find out. I was told I couldn't run it off the flea market electricity, and would have to use a generator if I wanted to sell ice cream. I didn't want to bother with that, so sold the machine back on ebay. I only had 6' under my fume hood to work with, and there didn't end up being enough room for both my donut machine and the fryolator where I was going to fry the ribbon fries. So I had to pick either ribbon fries or donuts, and I chose donuts because basically it's an early morning market and I thought they would go better. Sales for year 1 were bleak. I thought I was going to have to go out of business. I was discouraged, but figured I'd keep plugging along. Year 2 came and went, and my numbers had improved some, but still it was not to the point where I wanted it. I tried adding menu items like cheese steak sandwiches and sausage and pepper sandwiches, to increase revenue. I found that there was a lot of waste with those items (rolls can only be re-frozen so many times, etc.). Plus, mark up was only 100%. I was putting $3 into a $6 sandwich.

For year three, I decided I'd focus on my most profitable items, and market the hell out of them. Donuts cost me 50 cents a bag to make, and I get $3 for them. Smoothies cost me $1.12 and I get $3.50... an airpot of coffee costs me $1.13 to brew, and I get about $10 out of it by the time it's sold. I called up my smoothie company (Island Oasis) and asked for any free promotional material they could send me. Companies like this often give away their promo material, because they know it's going to help you to sell more of their products, so it will bring them more sales in the long run. I got a nice tin sign, a huge banner, and a menu board with changeable flavor slats from the smoothie company. Then, I went to decalzone.com and ordered some big, bold 9" lettering that says FRESH MADE MINI DONUTS. I noticed that my trailer was the only trailer at the market that you couldn't see what I was selling from across the field. I wanted to change that. I put up those letters above my windows so you could read it from across the field.

Here is a picture of my trailer after making those improvements:

Simplifying my menu to include only a few items (my most profitable ones) allowed me to streamline operations and to serve customers faster. My business really started to pick up. I think that people really didn't know what I had up till that point. So take that as a lesson... people must be able to see what you are selling from afar. When people buy your products, they must be something that makes them want to come back. I serve the only brand name coffee there... Green Mountain. I bet I sell more coffee than all the other food vendors combined. People love it. My mini donuts are good because I try to look into any problems people may bring to my attention. For example, Little Orbits says to fry the donuts at 375 degrees. The fact of the matter is, the cool donut batter cools down the oil if you set the machine at 375, so you are actually probably frying at 10 degrees below that for most of the time, since you are constantly depositing cool donut batter into the oil when running the machine. The trick is to set your temp knob half way between 375 and 400. That way, when you factor in the cooling of the oil from the batter, you are actually frying at around 375. If you fry at too low a temperature, more oil gets absorbed into the donut and it comes out greasy. Also, it is best to use oil that is solid at room temperature to fry the donuts in. I use Wesson MFB Shortening. It is a little harder than Crisco in consistency. I melt it down in my hot fudge warmer, which I keep behind the donut machine, and ladle it into the trough as the level gets low. If you use oil that is liquid at room temp, more of the oil will get absorbed into the donut. People don't like greasy donuts!

Thanks again Dave! Tomorrow Dave will talk about about how many bags of donuts he sells in a typical day, how to start your day off as a vendor and some advice on signage for you trailer.

If you are interested in starting a concession business, you owe it to yourself to check out the mobile catering site, where it discusses

1. The tools, techniques and strategies of how to easily plan your mobile catering operation to a point that practically guarantees your success in getting financing to start your new venture no matter what your background or history.

2. How to find the perfect catering unit that will not only last for years to come and pass all health checks but also attract huge numbers of paying customers from far and wide to buy your food and snacks at the prices you choose.

And Much, Much More!

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Tags: business, cheese steak, coffee table, Concession, donut, donut machine, ebay, flea market, fryolator, fume hood, ice, market electricity, mini donuts, oil, ribbon, smoothie, steak sandwiches, time, trailer, Year |

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Email from a Concession Vendor

January 28th, 2011 |

Author: Concession Business

This is part 2 of the email I received from the concession vendor who sells everything from donuts to ice treats. He gives some advice on where to respond to ads and mentions a website that he uses and had success with. If you are interested in the selling your donuts concession style, you really owe it to yourself to check out the site mobile catering business... don't let the word "mobile catering" confuse you, it is just another way to say concession business.

Here is part 2:

Another event I did my first year with the ice trailer I saw an ad for in the newspaper "Vendors wanted" for some fall festival. I called about it, and they wanted $500 for the weekend. I thought "wow, $500... this must be HUGE!" I was all excited. I paid the $500 and secured myself a spot. What a disappointment that turned out to be. I think there were about 30 vendors, all set up in a semi-circle, and I doubt if 100 people came through there all weekend. I did $180 in business over two days after paying $500 to get in there. Plus, I took time off from my regular job so I could do this. A huge waste of time and money. So that was a costly lesson for me... do not respond to newspaper ads looking for vendors! If the event is any good, they won't need to be advertising in the classifieds for vendors.

I also placed an ad on this website:

http://www.festivals-and-shows.com/vendors.html

I have actually gotten calls from this ad from various organizations wanting to hire me to do events. The ad listing on that site is free by the way.

So now it's 2006, and I had varying levels of success in 2005 with the Italian ice trailer, and being the entrepreneur I am, I was itching to expand. I had been selling plants at a local flea market for the garden center I work at for a couple of years, and noticed that they had several places selling egg sandwiches, but nobody selling mini donuts. There was also no brand name coffee there, no ribbon fries, no smoothies, no clam chowder, and no soft serve ice cream. So, I figured I'd start a trailer selling just that. This is New England's largest flea market by the way... we have 400+ vendors on a typical sunny summer day. It has been in operation since 1975 and is very well attended. When I first approached the market manager with my idea, he told me he was not allowing in any more food vendors. But I was persistent, and finally he asked me to submit a menu. He approved it. So now I had to find a trailer, and buy all my equipment. After all the trouble I had buying that used Italian ice trailer on ebay, I decided I wanted one that was brand new. I found a guy who built new trailers and sold them on ebay for pretty cheap. I drew out a plan, and sent it to him. He did a lot of hair-brain things, didn't wire the circuits how I had specified, gave me a 30 amp service when I specified I needed a 50 amp, and improperly installed my roof top AC so the roof leaked before the first year was even over. He is going by the name AFFORDABLE CONCESSION TRAILERS on ebay now... out of Huntingdon, PA. I'd steer clear of him. This was all back in the day when credit card companies were giving out credit cards like candy, so I would get 0% balance transfer offers in the mail, and would just keep taking out new credit cards and transferring balances. And if the 0% time would run out with one card, I'd simply take out another card and transfer the balance to avoid any interest. I drove myself into about $25K worth of debt with this second trailer, all on credit cards, and because of the way I juggled my balances, I ended up paying less than $100 interest on all that borrowed money.

I use a Little Orbits donut machine. The other brand you might get is a Belshaw. The main difference is that the Belshaw is belt driven (donuts brought through on a belt) and the Little Orbits is current driven (donuts float on oil, and flow through the machine on current). The main problem I find with the Little Orbits machine is that, if the oil level gets too low, the donuts will not go into the flipper baskets, and things will get backed up. They call it a fully automatic machine, but in reality, you can't take your eyes off it for too long.

Here's a video of me making donuts, and you'll see one donut that doesn't quite make it into the flipper basket, and I have to help it along with my wooden stick:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUjktIoIfS0

Thanks Dave for all the first class advice you have given to me and our readers. Looks like you really know this business! Be sure to visit tomorrow for Part 3 of his email. Yes, it is quite an extensive email, thanks again Dave!

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Tags: business, catering, catering business, Concession, concession business, disappointment, donuts, egg sandwiches, event, flea market, ice, italian ice, name, semi circle, time, time and money, trailer, waste of time, way, weekend |

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Walking the Walk – Actual Concession Business Testimonial

January 27th, 2011 |

Author: Concession Business

Hi Everyone,

I wanted to share with you an email that I received from one of our blog readers... I am posting it here with his permission. I think our readers will gain a lot from his experience in the field. It is a lenghtly, informative email so I am going to break it down into 3 or 4 sections posted in 3 or 4 days. Hope you enjoy. Below is discusses how he got started and a little advice for setting up your trailer. A lot of people reading this blog are interesting in selling the donuts concession style, for example at flea markets and the like. If you are interested in doing that, there is a great website that will basically "hold your hand" and teach you the ropes in explicit detail, head on over to:

Concession Trailer Business

I don't do a lot of promotion of the site, except in the forums I've added a banner.. but it truly is a good resource. Here is Part 1 of the email, thanks again Dave for your excellent advice! I have found (and as I have told Dave) that people in the concession business are so secretive with their information so this is a rare glimpse in someone that is actually walking the walk.

Hi John,

I have been in the concession business since 2005. I started with my Italian ice trailer. Actually, that trailer I originally intended to be a full service ice cream shop on wheels. I went and bought a used soft serve ice cream machine on ebay, a flurry machine, milk shake machine, hot fudge warmer, etc. I had bought the trailer used on ebay also, sight unseen, and had it shipped to CT from Minnesota. It got here, and was in deplorable condition. Nobody ever caulked the seams in the roof, and for years, water had leaked into the roof, down the walls, and completely rotted out the floor to the point that the plywood actually came up in handfulls. This trailer was advertised as "could use new linoleum". Yes, it did need new linoleum, but it also needed new floor framing and plywood! I was busy trying to get the trailer in order before my first event, and time was ticking. I had to have it ready for a certain date because I was supposed to be selling at a blueberry festival. Well, I didn't have all my ducks in a row with the ice cream stuff, so I just ended up putting one of the freezers back in there after repairing the floor, and did Italian ice only at that first event. It was a two day event, and I took in $650 in two days. I had never made that much money that quickly in my life. From then on, I was hooked. I decided that the Italian ice went so well, and was rather simple to do, so I would just make it an Italian ice trailer... forget about all the ice cream stuff.

This is a picture of that trailer on my first day of business:

It looks a little different now. I've found that "flash is cash". The more flashy your trailer is, the more it will catch people's eye and make them want to buy from you. Especially if you are a travelling unit, where people really don't know you or what kind of product you sell. You have to attract them to you with flash.

It takes time to build a good route for a concession trailer. I still don't have every weekend booked during the summer months. I have found some events that advertise 10K people, and I doubt if they get half that. So if I don't do good, I don't go back. And some events keep changing their weekend from year to year, so it will conflict with something else, and then I'll have to choose which one to do because I can't be in two places at once. So my schedule always varies to some extent every year. I think it's always a good idea to visit an event first before putting up money to vend there. See what you think of it, and if you think it would be worth while. Do they get good foot traffic? What other vendors do they have selling similar merchandise? How many years have the existing vendors been vending there? If they are repeat vendors and have been vending there for years, chances are it’s a good event for them. A bunch of new vendors is indicative of high turnover because vendors are unhappy and don’t return.

Be sure to come back tomorrow for Part 2 of His email... he will be talking specifically about his experiences on getting into festivals and the like. He will also be talking about his experiences with a popular donut machine. Don't forget to check out the website Concession Trailer Business, it is an excellent resource for those interested in the concession business, also called mobile food trailers.... ( I didn't know that either)

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Are you looking for a quick way to make money?

January 22nd, 2011 |

Author: Concession Business

Are you looking for a quick way to make money? Would you love to become self-employed but don't know where to begin? Do you want a business that will allow you to turn a profit fast? Surely you have seen concession trailers at fairs, festivals, parks, sporting events or even in parking lots or on busy streets. Chances are you have even been a patron at a few.

Has it ever occurred to you that a quick way to make money is to open your own concession trailer? This is a business that you can start up with a very low investment that offers high profitable returns. It can be a part time or full time job and the best part is you are guaranteed to make money. As long as you are setting up your business somewhere where there is foot traffic, the hungry people will come to you. Advertising costs aren't even necessary like with a traditional restaurant!

It doesn't matter if you have no experience in the food business or if you are a good cook or not. It really doesn't matter even what food you choose to sell. All concession food is popular and adored by the masses and of course, very profitable.

The concession food business is not only a quick way to make money, it is also a recession proof business. Even during financial downturns when other businesses fail, a concession food trailer will not. Unlike a restaurant where people have an unlimited choice of places to go, a concession food business is completely different. When you are set up at events, people have to eat, they come to spend money and there are no restaurants available. People will stand in long lines for your food because they have to and because they actually want to, its all part of the novelty of getting their favorite food.

If you are looking for a quick way to make money where you can finally set your own hours and work for yourself, open a concession food business and take control over your future.

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Tags: business, choice, Concession, concession food trailer, concession trailer, concession trailers, fairs festivals, food business, foot, foot traffic, full time job, parking, patron, profitable returns, proof, quick way to make money, recession proof, restaurant, trailer, way |

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Making Money Fast With a Concession Food Business

January 18th, 2011 |

Author: Concession Business

Making money fast is easy to do if you open your own concession food business. It can be something as easy as starting an ice cream concession cart that you can set up at local parks or you may want to choose a business more extravagant such as a food concession trailer serving up funnel cakes, french fries, caramel apples or endless other food favorites.

If you are in need of making money fast whether it is just extra cash to pay for school, save up for a vacation or pay off some bills or something bigger like using it as your sole source of income, a concession food stand business is perfect.

The first thing that you need to do is choose what kind of business that you are going to open and where you will actually sell your product at. Will you move from location to location to different events where people are gathered or will you set up at a more permanent place where you can reap the many benefits of having loyal, returning customers? Both choices offer many methods of making money fast. The best part, opening your own concession food business takes very little start up capital. Many companies even allow you to rent carts and trailers so that you can try the business out before you purchase one for yourself.

Another benefit of making money fast with a concession business is that you do not have to spend money on advertising for you to generate business. All you need to do is open up and people will come to you. Also, if you would like to only carry one item so you do not have to invest or worry too much about inventory, making money fast is still possible. Many successful concession food businesses make phenomenal profits with a limited menu. If you are looking to become self-employed in a way that making money fast is possible, the concession food business is perfect for you.

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Making Extra Money With a Concession Food Business

January 14th, 2011 |

Author: Concession Business

Are you thinking about starting your own business as a way of making extra money? If you want to become self-employed to put some extra money in your pocket for bills, vacations or school, the concession food business is the perfect place to start. Making extra money this way is extremely easy and a whole lot of fun. It is a business that allows you the unique opportunity to work outdoors at fun events and the chance to meet tons of interesting people.

A concession trailer has the ability to be moved wherever the people are gathered which makes making extra money super convenient with endless potential money making possibilities. Fairs, festivals, sporting events, parks or the busy corner of the business district in your city, anywhere there are people, there are opportunities to make money. On the other hand, should you decide to set up a semi-permanent location, that is always an option too.

A concession food trailer is the perfect way to get into the food business. It can be as profitable if not more profitable than a traditional restaurant with a lot less work. Making extra money is simple and fast because it requires very little start up capital and you don't have to hire a whole restaurant staff. You can literally triple the amount of money you spend on product in only one day.

Making extra money with a concession food business is also ideal because you can choose to just work at it part time on the weekends if you have a day job that you love or it is a perfect opportunity for a summer job for students. Of course, if you want the freedom of being your own boss and setting your own schedule, making extra money can easily be making full time money for your sole source of employment. Many people choose to open a concession food business as the perfect way to retire and have extra income or as a great excuse to travel and take their business with them. The best way for making extra money is by starting your own concession food business.

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Finding Concession Trailers for Sale

December 31st, 2010 |

Author: Concession Business

Finding concession trailers for sale is actually the easiest part of opening a food concession trailer business. Once you actually start looking, you may be surprised at how many are even in your local area since business owners are constantly upgrading and retiring. Of course, you will first need to decide if you want a new or used concession trailer.

New concession trailers for sale are easiest found online. There are plenty of websites that not only sell an array of styles of trailers, they will also customize them for you with the options that you need. Special options include quiet generators, flat tops, grills, fryers, sinks, toasters, freezers and refrigerators. Although new concession trailers for sale will cost you more money, they will also come with a full warranty and you can design them with the exact options that you want.

If you are looking for used concession trailers for sale, you may have luck finding one in your area. Check you local newspaper classified ads or try your luck at local automobile auctions. It it always recommended that you ask any questions on the item prior to bidding. If you cannot find anything locally to suit your needs then there are a ton of concession trailers for sale online, even online auctions. The only downfall to shopping online is that you may not be able to view it in person as easily. It is recommended to find something close enough for you to go view the trailer in person to inspect. Of course, if you find a good enough deal on one, the drive will be well worth it. Although used concession trailers for sale will probably not have a warranty on them, they will cost you quite a bit less money so they are definitely ideal for someone just starting out in the business and on a tight budget. Also, do not rush into buying one. There are enough of them for sale that you can be selective and wait for the perfect one that is in your price change offering the exact options that you need

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How to Start a Business With BBQ Concession Trailers

June 30th, 2010 |

Author: Concession Business

It seems like anything dripping with BBQ sauce is a sign of summertime, holidays or parties. BBQ concession trailers are a great way to start your own business and serve all the hungry people what they are really craving. The whole BBQ rage has become popular virtually everywhere including large festivals, fairs and sporting events where there is high revenue potential.

If you are one of those people that has an absolutely perfect, mouthwatering, barbeque recipe that everyone you know raves about, you should be opening a BBQ trailer and making money off of it.

BBQ concession trailers are profitable anywhere that there are hungry people. Even people that are not hungry will feel their stomach start to growl when they get an inhalation of that familiar aroma. Most individuals running BBQ concession trailers report that a busy location easily can gross well over $1,000 per day and some say that they have built up enough clientele in a short amount of time that they can stay in a static location and their customers will travel to find them. To top it off, they are doing something that they love!

The most important thing to invest in with BBQ concession trailers is your smoker equipment. Make sure that your equipment and set up offer good circulation. It may be a good idea to talk with someone at the health department to find out the standards that your trailer will need to meet before you open for business.

BBQ concession trailers do not need to exclusively cook chicken and ribs either. Hamburgers and hot dogs will also expand your appeal to children as well so parents that want BBQ do not need to make an additional stop for their child's food too. You may want to even sell small containers of beans, rice, coleslaw or potato salad. The best part, since there are far less BBQ concession trailers around compared to other food concession trailers, you won't have nearly as much competition. Not that anyone else could compete with your special barbeque sauce recipe anyway!
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