"Last year's occupant paid $415,000 a year for the Met stands plus at least $25,000 for supplies and labor, and didn't go under—so we can assume he brought in s

"Last year's occupant paid $415,000 a year for the Met stands plus at least $25,000 for supplies and labor, and didn't go under—so we can assume he brought in significantly more than $440,000." If we assume that hotdog vendor worked 365 days a year, that comes to $1,205 a day. If he works 8 hours a day, that's about $150 per hour. If someone knows what a hotdog goes for in NYC, we can figure out how many hot dogs he'd have to sell per hour in an 8 hour workday. Below is a link to an article with a bit more detail, that says he sells water for $2 a bottle, so a hotdog isn't going to be much more than that. If a hotdog costs $4, he'd have to sell 38 of them every hour, which is about 1 hotdog every 2 minutes, given an 8 hour workday, every day for 365 days a year. Keep in mind all this is just to cover rent, cost of labor, and expenses. Making a profit would require selling even more hotdogs. Also, I just looked at the Met's website, and it says they're closed Mondays, so that only leaves the hotdog vendor with 312 productive days per year. This alone will push the vendor to have to sell close to a hotdog every minute (0.73451 hotdogs per minute to be exact), just to break even. I've been to the Met, and seen the vendors there, and they're just not that busy. Sometimes they'd get a family buying a bunch of sodas and maybe some icecream, but most of the time they're just standing around doing nothing, even on busy days. On ordinary days it's probably much worse. And in the off-season it's pretty dead (except on weekends). So I have a difficult time believing they make that much money. But I suppose it's not completely out of the realm of possibility. http://thebsreport.wordpress.com/2009/08/09/nyc-hot-dog-vendor-evicted-for-being-unable-to-pay-his-54000-a-month-rent/ http://thebsreport.wordpress.com/2009/08/09/nyc-hot-dog-vend...