Thread: Holy Crap!!!
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Old 12-14-2004, 11:54 AM   #6
Undertoad
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If you believe their numbers, they claim that "one person can serve 360 dogs per hour at an event" and that the Gold model has the "CAPACITY to boil 800 1/4lb hotdogs PER HOUR in TWO FULL 20" X 12" steam pans, or steam 400 1/4lb hotdogs per hour".

So, the Gold model can boil more than twice as many dogs than they suggest one person can serve at maximum, or steam 40 more dogs than they suggest one person can serve at maximum.

360 dogs per hour is 6 per minute or one every 10 seconds. the only way I can imagine this happening is if you had the ideal location, one nobody else had including other carts (for some reason), and even at that it would probably be during some sort of special rush, such as an event letting out or lunch hour.

Plus, the California is much heavier. This could lead to additional woes depending on what you're using to haul it. You may come to hate the fact that it's bigger and heavier as you don't need the whole thing to get the sales numbers you can manage.

If you get that ideal location and want to work the single cart as a two-person business -- with the wife bringing in the attention and you closing the deals -- then you can sell the first cart and upgradeto the big one. But you really must start with the smaller one.
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