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Restaurants can be bootstrapped. A mobile vending unit costs ~20k. Add an extra 10k of permits, and basic inventory, and you could sell coffee somewhere near a
by wisty 15y ago
Restaurants can be bootstrapped. A mobile vending unit costs ~20k. Add an extra 10k of permits, and basic inventory, and you could sell coffee somewhere near a transport hub. From there, you could add a few food items, build up savings, then lease a small restaurant.
The problem is, regulators can be very unfriendly to mobile vendors.
- Goladus 15y agoRestaurants can be bootstrapped for some limited values of "restaurant" and "bootstrap." You can also steer a car with your feet, but hands are a lot more effective.
- xtracto 15y agoI have seen this first hand, starting with worse conditions. This guy ( http://www.expopyme.com.mx/vpabellon.php?cat=4&cid=3337335 http://www.expopyme.com.mx/vpabellon.php?cat=4&cid=33373... ) started selling ice cream in a bike like this ( http://www.yesh.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/t-370.jpg http://www.yesh.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/t-370.jp... ). He sold to the local University for about 10 years, until he got money to rent a very small place in front of a hospital. From there he continued growing and growing and now I know they have 3 good size shops in different parts of the city. I know because my mother has been teaching in the local Univ. for 25 years and met this guy in the beginning. >The problem is, regulators can be very unfriendly to mobile vendors. I think at the end this is what matter the most. In my home town (well... in all Mexico in general), cycling ice-cream makers do not need to comply with a lot of laws (as long as nobody dies because of the ice cream...)