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Do you have a food cart? I live in Portland which is supposedly the food cart capital of the world, so I may have a bit of a skewed perspective, but around her
by px43 14y ago
Do you have a food cart? I live in Portland which is supposedly the food cart capital of the world, so I may have a bit of a skewed perspective, but around here, every company like yours operates primarily as a food cart. The income isn't as good as catering events, but if you set up in a good area, you will get a shit ton of exposure, and any good food cart in Portland usually has catering gigs booked months in advance. Not sure how well that model would work in the Bay area, but I know when I was there last week I was craving some good food cart food, and didn't see many of them. It might be a relatively untapped market down there, though you make need to drop a few thousand dollars for a good cart, which you might not have handy in the short term.
- Sataysfied 14y agoI don't have a food cart. I did something similar where we had a booth before at a food area in SF called Off The Grid where there were a bunch of other food carts, booths, and trailers but it was base on those that get accepted and we only got business once a week. During the rest of the week we did festivals and events to gain business on the other days. It wasn't very much and unstable at best. We pivoted to catering as it was more sustainable as a business and one that we could grow much larger. And over the last year we did move revenue than we did when we were doing the booth and festivals combined. I've visited Portland recently and saw one of the food truck areas in downtown near 10th. It was nice.