July 21, 2025 • 45 mins
Skippy is enjoying his grandpa life while the the food truck is buys. Josh has the July blues and hopes that a good small town festival can cure it. Plus the FTO Expo happened this last week! This and so much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Guess I'm I guess I'm more upset by the lack
of communication on you know.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Yeah, that's that's right. The problem that all should be
discussed beforehand. There's no way you should pull up somewhere
and so, yeah, here's where you plug in. It's mandatory,
and we had that for a fire inspection.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
By the way, we pulled up and they pulled up
right behind us. Say, am, I'm here for your fire
Inspection'll excuse me if you get this trigler, I'm going
to put you to work eighty five dollars cash grab
just to tell me that I'm fine. FANTASTICA.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
We have fire inspectors at events, but they just check
it and walk away. You know, they're never charge for them.
It's not like a full inspection. They just want to
make sure that we have you know, fire signature actually
where they're supposed to be, ash pants where they're supposed
to be.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
You know, have you ever heard of a I'm sure
of a vending permit for private land?
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Yeah, I mean Nowego has that.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
So if you set up at like an orchard in
Owego or something like that, you have to pay a permit.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
If it's inside the city limits. Yeah. Yeah, we don't
set up in the city limits in a Wago anymore.
They wanted to have a full site survey to make
sure that our trailer was positioned properly on the property
far enough away from each of the boundaries. So we
had to do a site survey like a building review
site survey along with that.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Yep. Yeah, I got hit with that one hundred and
fifty bucks for a year long permit just to and
that's not setting up on city streets. That's setting up
on private.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Land, yep. But you're still inside the city. So what
they're doing is trying to appease everybody and trying to
recoup what the food truckers don't have to pay they
you know, is property taxes and stuff like that. That
so in order to appease the argument, because that's the
ways the biggest argument for other business owners is well,
they can just come in and sell food and then
(01:55):
leave and not have to pay any of the city
taxes or anything like that. So I think they do
that too. Of quelched that argument a little bit.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
I mean, at the end of the day, it's your
choice if you want a brick and mortar business.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Yeah, which I'm rethinking way to be angry. Justin says
he's been to a food next to a food truck
that had a non inverter generator and his teeth a riddle. Yeah.
We we had one of those next to us this
last weekend and it was seven feet away from our porch,
(02:32):
just because they had all they had a stick. I
saw him pull in. I said, Chris, you are going
to hate this day because it's gonna get loud. You
can see it. They open the open frame rack in. Yeah.
It was five feet from the.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Old hickory for the old hickory and fall off. Yeah.
So speaking of speaking of hickory, you had it mounted
last week. Yeah, we talked about that last week. Remember
I was in and out I was, I was.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
It has not fallen off. The twelve little bolts are
holding struck.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
We did. We bolted through the frame somewhere, did we.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Not the frame, but through that so that there's the
diamond plate, which then is on top of a steel
The whole porch is of steel plate. There's a steel Yeah,
there's a steel plate there and then the diamond plate
on top of it.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Really interesting, okay, cool.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Yeah, there's yeah, that makes sense that that they wouldn't
do plywood down there at all. I mean, think of
how heavy those slippers are.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Yeah, I haven't. I have not seen one that doesn't
have plywood underneath the diamond plade. Is what kind of
where I was going with that? A cool?
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Yeptually, I just bolted right through, right through those two layers.
My guy said it should be fine. He told me
which graded bolts to use, because they're the bolt holes
for where those wheels were. Those are the ones we
used whre wheels attached. We just use the feet. They're
not very so you're not using very large bolts to
(04:06):
go through there, which had me nervous, but he said, yep,
just make sure Grade eight or whatever the heavier. Yeah,
so we have those on there, and yeah, as far
as we know, it hasn't moved. We check them every
every couple of trips to make sure that everything's still
tighter as part of our rocks underneath it.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Yah.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Yeah, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
The metal underneath the diamond plate like secured to the
frame that I assume Yeah it's yeah. Oh, I'm just
I haven't seen it like that. Yeah, it's welded to
the frame. The metal is.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
The steel plate that's on the porch is welded to
the frame of the it's not going I didn't realize
it's not just sitting down there loose.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Yeah. Wow, that's awesome. That's really good engineer.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
So they're mentions.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Baby, Yeah, there's one for sale right now in my town.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
That's other Dimension.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Twenty twenty.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Should get it.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
I thought about it numerous times this quarter. This quarter
is taxes, so that was a lot. That was a lot.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Actually sorry, yeah, I was Square would stud hey, your
sales TAXI davo excuse me, d A v oh. It's
a it's a third party service that links in with
(05:48):
your Square and they will do it automatically. Yeah, yeah,
d A v oh I think is what it is.
Novo yep.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
So yeah, it integrates right with Square.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
I got another hard sell from Huntington about switching over
to Clover and all their services, and you know, if
we want to use them for payroll. It's like, no, no,
I don't. I don't want to use any of it,
I said. I I am. I'm happy that I'm so
far into bed with Square that it makes it hard
to get out. But it's so damn convenient, Like I
(06:27):
don't want to go to three different spots for all
this stuff. You know, it's very easy for me to
manage all of it in one spot. And until that changes,
I have no reason to leave. The cost for me
is not prohibitive.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
My landlord told me how much he's paying for UH
payroll services through mm hmm, I guess through quick Books,
so he uses they used toast in the in the
in the cafe. I think he was using quick Books
(07:03):
And it's one hundred and thirty dollars a month, and
like then like thirty something dollars.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
A week.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
To run payroll or per run or something like that,
whether it's one week or two weeks, I can't remember,
it was that, but and I'm looking at what I
pay through Square, like it's thirty dollars a month and
six bucks an employee, like yeah, pay every two weeks.
And I'm way under that. And I'm like, I'm trying
(07:34):
to think, like, why the hell do you have so
much so much in peril cost? Yeah, it's yeah. Or
he tells me that they made X amount of dollars
and over half of his expense was payroll. I'm like,
how is that possible? Well, and That's what I'm That's
(07:57):
what I was trying to understand it. If you told
me he did, you know X of dollars and like
over half of that was payroll, ort, payroll cost whatever.
But he includes I mean payroll and his taxes, insurance,
everything that goes into payroll. He uses that as.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
A well payroll and benefits then so is he no.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Benefits just like what I mean by insurance like unemployment insurance.
So I mean he puts that all as a lump sum.
But how the blue hell did you have that much?
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Well then still, I mean, even if you use average,
he's thirty percent in taxes and insurance and stuff.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
I'm like, if you're paying is if you're paying your
people half of what you make, like either you're not
charging enough or you're paying your people too much? Right
am I? Am I wrong in thinking that?
Speaker 2 (08:53):
No? That's yeah, I mean, that's yeah, he's it's his
his payroll labor is too high.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
It's crazy.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Next industry standard. I think it tops out like twenty
four percent as the highest you should be or something
like that. So even if he's at twenty four percent,
he still has twenty six percent. Another payroll related expenses
unless he's including himself in there.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
As far as I know, they don't take any money.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Good stuff. I don't know. I didn't. I didn't really
get too far into that. Yeah, god knows it comes out.
But yeah, interesting, interesting, That doesn't sound awesome, No.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Really doesn't. But we are we're really but no, yeah,
we're really outgrowing our spot though, So I think we're
gonna start looking for something new. Yeah, yeah, we're really outgrowing.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Is that just just because you're outgrowing it?
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Yeah? I would love to have a walk in cooler
like I would love.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Yeah, like love, But do you you only have a
do you don't even have like a three door two
door fridge, two door delfield fridge and then a one
door fridge that we use for all our cheese and
sauces and milk.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
But most of our meat goes into the two door fridge. Okay,
even the racks that are in that two door fridge.
And you put eighty pounds of brisket on a rack,
it starts to yeah. But other than now, m.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
I think, yeah, we try to find something. Sorry, No,
you're good. So yeah, we had a pretty good week
last week. Roadside has been slow, Like I said, neighborhoods
have been a little hit and miss, and some of
our even normal weekday spots have been a little like
(10:58):
our corwell, healths have been slower than what we'd like
to see and that kind of thing. I think it's
just summer vacations and stuff like that. But we still
managed twelve thousand last week for you.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Damn.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Yeah. I mean the festival helped when we did five
Friday Saturday combined, so or just over five and Friday
and Saturday, so that helps considerably. We did twenty nine
on Friends Saturday. That's higher than I thought we did exactly.
(11:37):
So yeah, we were tips. No, no, it doesn't I
know how to pull my reports angry.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
I'm not angry. So yeah, we did that festival. We did.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
It was I think we were just about six last year.
Fifty nine I think is what we did last year
for between Friday and Saturday. So we were down a
little bit this year, which sucks, but it was kind
of weird some of the patterns and traffic flow if
(12:16):
we would have Saturday was where we lost. Where we're
really done. We were down a couple hundred bucks Saturday,
but we ran out of brisket and as soon as
we started putting sold out signs up on the menu,
people just kind of like not even walk all the
way over, like they'd see the sold out signs and
then just turned around like they were thinking that we
were sold out of everything.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
There's there's a lot of people that were.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Looking just for brisket and didn't want to think about
anything else. And so yeah, if we would have had
another brisket on board, we probably would have hit probably
would have beaten last year. That first day of that festival.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Oh yeah, you went to the dewagiac don't watch that.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
It is okay, then Watchack Yeah Jack, there's Summer Fest. Yeah,
dog Patch, as the locals refer to it. Yeah, it's
a good it's a good small town festival. It is
zero stress for us. It's never super super busy. I
mean I went I think Saturday went an hour and
(13:16):
a half where I wasn't clear, you know, I was
just making food. I mean, but we did back to
back I think we Yeah, so we did like an
eight nine hundred back to back hours. You know, it's
like and it's we're just kind of cruise along and
there's not a whole lot of stress. And to have
a couple of good salad days like that. Yeah, we
get a little hotel. It was like a mile and
(13:38):
a half from there. I went to the hotel for
the night And.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Did Troy make the trip for now? Oh he doesn't work, No.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Not usually he works some weekends.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
But no, I don't.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
I'm not paying him to drive down there. That seems
kind of stupid. But yeah, that was a that's a
good event. We have some more catering this week, hopefully
a couple of big events. The was it? What are
we doing on Friday? Some group is having their international convention.
(14:13):
What month are we in? Gideon's International is having their
big giant conference in Grand Rapids. So they arranged to
some have some trucks downtown Grand Rapids in the vicinity
Rosa Park Circle where there's food trucks on Thursdays. So
(14:34):
I talked them into a minimum, not a lot, but
we'll be down there for lunch and then heading over
to food truck Fridays that day. So yeah, it would
be a pretty good week. Just hoping that the roadside
kind of picks up a little bit, we start to
see a turn there would be nice. But yeah, we
(14:54):
had our six year anniversary yesterday, well Saturday technically was
our six year anniversary. Yeah, July nineteenth, twenty nineteen. It
was our first day. So we gave out I don't know,
like fifty cupcakes yesterday, fifty cupcakes and gave six people
free food at random, just cause us to celebrate our anniversary.
(15:24):
I'm sorry I didn't connect the doctors.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
There's there was no electric in between.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Sorry, are a little way to celebrate and show appreciation
for a customer. So yep, Chris and Madison round the truck.
I would send a text message at random times between
eleven and four to Madison's that next person gets free food.
It's as random as we could have made it without
taking their human decision making into account, so which means
(15:57):
then we gave away I think four hex are like
every order. It was like a rack of rooms. And
I told her, I said, you can't let them know
their orders free until they're done order. You know, that way,
you're not swaying them at all. But like Madison's mom
popped up and she just happened to be the person.
You know, It's like, okay, it's the way it works,
(16:20):
you know. It's like I don't know.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Are you still doing TikTok lives at all?
Speaker 2 (16:27):
No, And that's mostly because of our generator issues that
we're still having. So because the extra it's not a
lot of extra power to run all that stuff, but
our battery backup that's on there, I mean when it
pops in and poles draw. So yeah, as soon as
we get all our generatorship figured out, we actually put
the the Durhamax back on the trailer because it had
(16:48):
a module modular module we replaced that it was running.
I was able to start it up and keep it
running until we put it on the trailer, and then
like five minutes after it kicked back down. So I
got to call them back today seriously. Unfortunately, their support
is in California, so from what I've heard, it's usually
(17:10):
we send you one part and then we send you
a new generator. So I'm expecting a new generator.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Did it come me?
Speaker 2 (17:19):
I'm a next phone call. So yeah, hopefully. It's kind
of a pain of the ass using the predator because
it's like the plug that we plug into is all
lucy goosey. The push start ignition is starting to not
push start so easily.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
So my first Predator is still in my garage. It's
got like sixteen hundred hours on it. I went to
start it the other day just to just to get
the carburetor all good, and yep, uh, the push button
doesn't I mean, the battery is probably dead, so I
couldn't push start it. So I pulled it. The cord broke.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
We've never been I've never been able to pull start
my Prince since.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
The only way I was able to do that one
this one's I tried. I tried.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
I've tried a few times to pull start it and
it would never it would never pull start. And then yeah,
one day the handle was just gone off the pole
start Like I don't know what happened to it because
we never used it.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
It was just gone.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
But so yeah, so yeah, we just have to go
on and off a couple of times and then it'll
kick in. So I don't know if it's maybe a
spark plug issue or whatever, but the battery is fine.
But once we started having those problems is when we
really pushed towards getting the new generator. So but whatever
it is, what it is, I'm hoping to have it
(18:43):
taken care of the problem that we really have now
is with the smoker, because with the other smoker, it
ran off the fireboard, the fan of everything ran off
the fiber which has a battery in it. So we
can run off that battery for hours. So rolling down
the road, no problem, we can leave. The smoker runs fine.
Right now, we don't because the predator will shut down.
(19:07):
Now as soon as we start moving, the truck shuts down.
So I don't know if there's if there's if they
have one of those jostling alert things in there, than
that maybe has gone bad over time, you know, if
it shakes too much of the Okay.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
You're well, you're well more than mine, right.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Yeah, And everything's been cleaned. The resistor, it's all just
justin says he starts his with a screwdriver. Whatever it takes.
Do you look at first and then stick it in there. Yeah,
we've done oil changes regularly on it. It's all been
taking manage, maintained pretty well. So we change the resistor, yeah,
(19:47):
so yeah, we can't.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
We can't we change like what's it called, the resistor
or the the part over the exhaust needs to be
changed or needs to be cleaned because it's like a.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Oh that we don't. That's I have a little scream
that's on there. We don't even have one of those.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Okay, just blow that ship out there. Why not?
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Fantastic, he says, he jumps it. It's very exciting every
time we start the generator, I have so yeah, so yeah,
we used to be able to roll down the road
with the generator running and the trailer plugged in. That's
not really functional at the moment. So yeah, we have
(20:32):
to be careful.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
We have a battery backup, put stuff or for the smoker.
Can I run off a battery?
Speaker 2 (20:39):
I got twelve, I'm sure, But then I gotta figure
out where I gotta where I can mount a battery
backup out there to plug it into, because you're talking
like a PC battery backup, which is get a mountain
one out there for.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Twelvel Just put a marine battery out there. No, I'm
not gonna every box and plug it in when you
when you leave. Should be a way to do it now.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
But then I got to recharge the battery, put a
trickle charger on it.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
We're okay, figure it out.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Got all this fucking equipment on my porch. We try
to avoid looking at as hillbilly as possible most of
the time that you don't use I guess stuff and
that's that. That's where we keep all our cleaning stuff
for the smoker, right, our spatulism and things that we
clean up the smoker with. HM that I might have
(21:33):
to make a functional sink and then put in uh
a request for change of s ops because the last
person that did our sanitariut. So I don't see any
alterations to your SOPs for the sink not being used
because it was in the original sp as the original equipment.
So you have to ask for modifications to be done
(21:56):
if you modify or change equipment in your trailer. So
she was getting a little fus about the sink that
the handwashed sink that was never used.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
Fuck, they would have liked me because I took out
the vegetable sink I had.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
I none of that equipment's the original equipment in that trailer.
But yeah, anyways, so yeah, that's I mean, which is
not a big great It'll be fine once we get
the other generator back on. I'm wrekinnigan. It's not a
big we just gotta it's just an issue sometimes when
(22:28):
we have these hour long drives. We just have to
be conscious of what's on and what's that. It doesn't
it holds tempature fine as long as you're not, you know,
driving down the road at eighty miles an hour. So yes,
we got it figured out. It's uh, timing.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Wise, we've got most of that figured out. I think.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
We've had a couple of really long cooks. Just as
we're playing with some stuff, we're using a water pan
now in there.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
They need it so.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
It helps. So it allows us to be able to
put pork butts and briskets on that top shelf without
having to wrap them to keep them from drying out,
like the crust from drying out. So just have them.
They don't have him with an inch of water in there,
does wonders. So yeah, yeah, everything has been good. Yeah
(23:23):
we are. We're doing good, man, we're doing good.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
We we We basically almost got inside my smoker or
clean it the other day. Yeah, you would fit, you'd
think so, but no, it was kind of tough. I
was very very dirty when it was over. But I
bought a power washer because I needed one, So we
powerwasher ship out of that smoker, and a clean smoker
(23:45):
is a good smoker. Was that the first time you've
cleaned it to this point. Yes, I mean I've clean
I've taken take the racks out every week and take
them to the car washing power washing. But this is
the first time that we actually don't wah, you don't
clean the inside when you clean their ax out. No,
not really, I mean there's nothing really to clean. I guess, yes, sir,
(24:07):
I finally finally started seeing soot just cake. So that's
when I took out actually took out the took out
the shelves and then they took out the.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Racks and left just the bar in the middle, and
I just washed everything. Yeah, he's a he's a paint scraper.
Every week, just go through the edges and get all
that because even though we're in pans, I mean, stuff
still splatters and you get stuff. Yeah, I mean spend
a Yes, we spend a half an hour a week
(24:38):
to do it, and then you can usually avoid the
full on power washing like we we'll probably we'll probably
go through with oven cleaner and stuff once we hit
the end of the season and get it back to
sparkly sparkly inside. But uh, Jonah Hill is gonna play
golf legend John Daily in an upcoming movie.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
I could almost see that, yesh. So anyways, who we
are not up fifty percent on the year, unfortunately last
week we almost were almost did. We're seven hundred dollars
(25:22):
short of our entire July total last year, so we
were all.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Knee surgery house and we still do hay. So yeah,
We're three grand above last July right now to date,
so not bad. Up roughly ten percent on the month
and the year, so good. Yeah, we'll take it. We're
(25:51):
gonna take it. Better be up than down one hundred percent.
I am nervous about September because that was a pretty
solid month for u S last year, which was a
little bit of surprise. So hopefully hopefully we can get
there again. That wouldn't be super shocked if we ended
up down a little bit in September from last September.
(26:13):
So yeah, yeah. Other than that, I mean, things are
going good. Just trying to get stuff done, you know,
trying to get ready we uh where I got my
HVAC guy and my g C all meeting up tomorrow
at Arby's. Oh we're gonna walk through that bad boy.
(26:39):
See how much it's gonna cost me to get it
to working. Doesn't sound like the tenant wants to put
any money into anything when or split any Yeah, that's
what I said, of course, or split any potential maintenance
costs in relations to h VAC and or parking lot.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
So does that mean you'd take it with you if
you leave.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
I'm not taking an HVAC off the roof of the building. No,
nor am I going to depave the the parking lot
if it has to be reserviced.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
But you will negotiate lower potential lower rent for said improvement. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Do you have an attorney working with you or a
real estate agent or is it just you using an agent?
Speaker 2 (27:26):
So it's the So the guy I'm using is the
guy that showed me the first place, who he represented
the the landlord at the first place. But he's not
tied just to him obviously, so I'm now his client
as well and other properties. So his company doesn't that
(27:47):
doesn't have the the RB solicit so it's another agency altogether.
So he's making sure we.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
Don't get so there's no conflict ad interest.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
Nope.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
So have you officially pulled out of the other one? No?
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Nope, nope. And Matt we're actually walking both properties tomorrow
with the contractor, so good to get an idea of
costs for both places to help because rent at ourbi'ss
twice as much. Almost would you utilize the dun through?
(28:22):
Uh not right away if we do it all. So yeah,
that's a whole other animal, right, and that one not
necessarily want to tackle anytime soon. And my realtor. Realtor
(28:42):
was going to double check with the city to make
sure that it's still licenses a as a drive through location.
So apparently you have to drive through license license through
potentially the city like they can say no, you can't
have a drive through, which I had no idea it
was a government politics, but yeah, yeah, he said he
(29:03):
had another person. I had another group that got into
a building and start running the drive through and they
got shut down because they weren't licensed to have a
drive through, like that license had expired or whatever. It
wasn't transferred or whatever it was. And yeah, so they
had to go through this whole application process to get
their drive through opened again.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
That's crazy.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
So yeah, yeah, hopefully we get some good news tomorrow. Yeah,
when we'll go from there. You got a fifty six
thousand dollars square loan offer sitting out there.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
Oh, I just I just gonna square a lot. I'm
gonna have one out currently.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
But nineteen percent.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
Of sales, that's not that bad compared to what I've seen. No,
I understand it's a lot, but it's not. Yeah, that's
not horrible for what I've seen.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
So I've had three now, I think I've gotten one
each of the last three years over the winter, just
for a little cushion. And we did the renovations on
the trailer and stuff and the smoker last year. So
I think I think we've done twenty thirty and thirty
is the three.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
That we've done.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
So the payback period on those is eighteen months, twenty
four months or something like that, Like you have to
you have to have pay back in that amount. We've
never made it longer than before. It's payback. Like our
payment history with them has been so good, Like why
can't we get better terms? But I've never gone over
fifteen for sixteen percent for sales paybacks, Like you give
(30:48):
me the fifty four at the sixteen percent that we
have always had and I'm in, But I mean, at
some point in time my history has to have some
very non future. Sure.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
We always get told that we can get better offers
if we link a bank account, which we've we've accounts.
But yeah, which I'm already I mean, we're already there.
I've already done it.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
So your your other business counseling, not just your square
account of my other business counselint. Yeah, so I don't
believe it. Yeah, but maybe I don't know who knows,
who knows? But yeah, fifty four is what my current
(31:36):
offer is, fifty three four, which I mean really, your
payback is borrow fifty three four a payback sixty one
two fifty which is the.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
Last one that I took out was twenty one and
my repayments ten percent.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
Yeah. Yeah, so this is this is fifty three at
twenty percent of sales, I can get down to sixteen
sixteen and says sixteen point twenty five is forty three
is what I can borrow.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
Yeah, it's just but.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
And it says, please reconnect your bank. Okay, let me reconnect.
See if I that this does awesome things for me,
and I.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
See online that there's a lot of people that are
like getting uh bitching that bit. We'll say bitching, complaining
about square loans and things like that because they charge
a loan fee or whatever, and I'm like, you know what,
it is so much it's the best thing you will get.
(32:48):
Here's the thing is, it's they're thinking when it says
ten percent of sales that that's the interest. I'm like,
this isn't a traditional loan. It's called a capital You're
borrowing your own money and they're they're facility tating it
for you. Right, So it's like, yeah, it's the best
loan you can get because they already know that you're
making money or that you you know, you have money
(33:10):
coming in, like I've already like my minimum payment has
already been reached for like August, right.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
But yeah, it's so it's the so, yeah, the the
sales combined with the length of the loan is where
I I because we've paid back so early every time,
Like let's let's let's bump the percentage down and we'll
still do it within the eighteen months, you know, so
as long as we're not extending that period, like everything's
(33:44):
still the same. Like you're still gonna get all your
money in the timeframe that you want.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
To get it.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
You know, just make it a little bit easier on,
you know, not have such a huge percentage taken out.
Uh so yeah, I don't know, we'll see. So yeah,
we'll use hopefully, I mean that's we can use part
of that for renovation, and then the whatever other money
we need to borrow is at such a higher amount,
(34:12):
you know, will be a whole lot less theory. So
but yeah, I mean there's another CTO going to be
ordered with a brick and mortar, so we can't we
can't do both with the one.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
Apol. My dogs are barking.
Speaker 2 (34:37):
Oh yeah, my feet had been hurting too.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
Actually, my do you ever go for a pedicure?
Speaker 2 (34:44):
It's been a while. I but yes, I've had one.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
Did they change your life? No? Yeah, I would feel
bad for the Asian people that would touch my feet.
Speaker 2 (35:03):
I'm sure they've seen worse.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
Oh I'm sure they have. Yeah. I think, yeah, getting
a it's much I think it's much better to get
a square loan just because it's again, you're just borrowing
your own money. Right. This was the highest sixty eight
minimum payment I've ever had though.
Speaker 2 (35:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
Yeah, because any so, anybody, if you've never taken out
a square loan. You have to make a payment every
sixty days, so like if for some reason you're off
or not doing anything, that's why it's really good.
Speaker 2 (35:37):
If your minimum has to be met every sixty Yes.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
Your minimum. That's why it's actually kind of really good
for the winter time because you're really not doing anything
during the winter time. By the time your first payment
really is due, you're at least possibly out there working.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
Right, So yeah, it's yeah, yeah, we'll see. So that's wet. Yeah,
seventy one hundred bucks is all that costs you. You're
not going to get any better than that anywhere.
Speaker 1 (36:14):
Especially, Yeah, if you consider whatever interest rate a commercial
loan company is going to charge you, I mean happen
on a small business that's half predatory to begin and.
Speaker 2 (36:23):
What they can, yeah, what they consider to be high risk.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
Yeah, you're probably at a venture small business taking out
let's say, a fifty thousand loan, you're probably a ten
percent interest at the very minimum, if not, if you're interesting. Yeah,
so that's five grand right there. Not to mention whatever
their fee is to do the loan, you're i mean,
you're at well over what score would charge.
Speaker 2 (36:49):
Yeah. Again, you're just yeah, I mean and if you're
looking at I mean food trucks going up and looking
at I mean some of these loan companies. I mean
I used one for to buy the trailer, you know,
for essentially at least, I mean we were for of
our original amount. We paid over one hundred thousand dollars
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for our fifty eight thousand dollars trailer.
Speaker 1 (37:12):
Lovely so.
Speaker 2 (37:17):
But we made it work. So so yeah, yeah, we'll
see what we see you tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (37:29):
Hopefully we'll have some.
Speaker 2 (37:30):
Good news to report or at least something to report
tomorrow or after tomorrow. But yeah, I think we'll call
it today. Oh FTO conference was this last week. From
what I saw on the Facebook, it looked like turnout
was really good. Looked like the crowd was substantially bigger
than last year. And they announced their summer location for
(37:53):
next year August first week August ve GUS in Austin, Texas.
So I'll throw that on my calendar and hopefully can
(38:14):
make it work. That didn't see a fall location announced,
so I don't if they're gonna wait for the fall
location until in New Jersey real quick on their website
see if they haven't listed.
Speaker 1 (38:25):
And while you're saying that I don't know if we
ever mentioned. Obviously, anybody that's in barbecue knows that Texas
barbecue is they have. I mean, it's a religion down there.
And so they have the Texas Texas Monthly Top fifty
barbecue joints and Bernard Servantes with the Burnt Bean Company
(38:49):
at the number one spot this year, and everybody that
I've heard then there is amazed and definitely here he
earned it for sure. There's a couple of little ones
that I follow at Franklin. I don't I didn't look
at the Monthly. I just know that she got first.
Speaker 2 (39:17):
There.
Speaker 1 (39:17):
He's he's never I mean, I don't think I'll ever
fall out of it, but well no, I don't think
out of it. But he's he's much of a celebrity now, may.
Speaker 2 (39:34):
M hm.
Speaker 1 (39:35):
Trusy. So to grab them, to grab the top fifty,
they visited three hundred and nineteen joints in Texas. It's
a lot, it's a lot of places.
Speaker 2 (39:57):
Yeah, the fall location has not been released, yeah for
next year, but Austin, Texas, the dates are OK. So
I lost it. I lost it? Where to go? Under spotlight?
Speaker 1 (40:20):
Where that? Where did it go? I? Just thought it
went away.
Speaker 2 (40:26):
Yeah, from there and there there most seasons. Why day
blah blah blah blah blah, good morning, showed up, showed out,
blah blah blah.
Speaker 1 (40:39):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (40:40):
First week of August, I believe, go here it is.
It doesn't have the dates on there. Austin, Texas saved
the date August fourth and fifth, everybody. So that'll be
my preferred location, depending on where the other one is.
It would be awesome if it in Vegas in the
winter though, that'd be cool. I take there.
Speaker 1 (41:01):
Eight of the top fifty in just Austin.
Speaker 2 (41:03):
Alone, that's crazy. So where would Where did Franklin?
Speaker 1 (41:11):
And he doesn't. I can't find it. I mean he's
still on there, but I don't know.
Speaker 2 (41:18):
I feared he was one of the eight in Austin.
Speaker 1 (41:20):
He is one of the eight in Austin. I'm just saying,
I don't know. I don't he doesn't show what a
number is. Ah, gotcha. There's a lot that I want
to go to that. It's just that that I've seen
on Facebook that have looked really, really good. Yeah, but
there's one I follow in uh in May Bank, Texas.
(41:44):
It's called B four barbecue. Okay, he's in He's in
the back of a feed store. He uh he. Ever
since he got in the top fifty, he has obviously
blown up, but it's a total of Now he's filling
(42:06):
two thousand or he's filling two one thousand gallon smokers
every day or not every day, but the days that
he's open. I got one. He's one of his recipes.
Speaker 2 (42:16):
The Snows and Franklin are both out of the top ten.
Speaker 1 (42:25):
Yes they are. I said they were definitely were not
in the top ten. Goldies is still in the top
ten though Interstellar for good things. I've heard of Truth,
and I've heard of Danes number nine and number seven. Mm. Interesting,
(42:49):
there's one that is in U called heim Barbecue. H G.
I M. They did a video on doing bacon burn in,
so they take slab bacon and make burn in out
of it. So I've tried it. I didn't really like
how it came out though there wasn't a it didn't
have a bacon taste to it. Joe was surprised. It
(43:11):
just had more fat. But he also does his own bacon,
so maybe that's.
Speaker 4 (43:18):
Why Franklin is listed in the Best of the Rest sections.
Speaker 1 (43:31):
Which I don't know what that is the best of
the probably the top forty about that.
Speaker 2 (43:39):
Or all right, six there's seven listed on that list.
M Oh no, it goes bown further. Okay, I'm going
to say then they are number twelve or thirteen. Yes,
(44:01):
I'm gonna say. At the top of this page is
number eleven.
Speaker 1 (44:05):
Thanks.
Speaker 2 (44:05):
So yeah, yeah, you can go to the meat map.
Speaker 1 (44:16):
Yeah that's where I went. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (44:21):
Anyways, all right, everybody, everybody, have a good week. I
gotta get to work. Skippy, have a good week. I
have a happy week. Half Are you back to the
shops back open tomorrow?
Speaker 1 (44:33):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (44:34):
Excellent, that's a thumbs up from Skippy.
Speaker 1 (44:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (44:37):
Perfect. All right, everybody, have a good week. We will
see you next week Monday, as far as I know already,
have a good one.
Speaker 1 (44:46):
Talk to you later. Bye bye, okay, okay,
Guess I'm I guess I'm more upset by the lack
of communication on you know.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Yeah, that's that's right. The problem that all should be
discussed beforehand. There's no way you should pull up somewhere
and so, yeah, here's where you plug in. It's mandatory,
and we had that for a fire inspection.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
By the way, we pulled up and they pulled up
right behind us. Say, am, I'm here for your fire
Inspection'll excuse me if you get this trigler, I'm going
to put you to work eighty five dollars cash grab
just to tell me that I'm fine. FANTASTICA.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
We have fire inspectors at events, but they just check
it and walk away. You know, they're never charge for them.
It's not like a full inspection. They just want to
make sure that we have you know, fire signature actually
where they're supposed to be, ash pants where they're supposed
to be.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
You know, have you ever heard of a I'm sure
of a vending permit for private land?
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Yeah, I mean Nowego has that.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
So if you set up at like an orchard in
Owego or something like that, you have to pay a permit.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
If it's inside the city limits. Yeah. Yeah, we don't
set up in the city limits in a Wago anymore.
They wanted to have a full site survey to make
sure that our trailer was positioned properly on the property
far enough away from each of the boundaries. So we
had to do a site survey like a building review
site survey along with that.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Yep. Yeah, I got hit with that one hundred and
fifty bucks for a year long permit just to and
that's not setting up on city streets. That's setting up
on private.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Land, yep. But you're still inside the city. So what
they're doing is trying to appease everybody and trying to
recoup what the food truckers don't have to pay they
you know, is property taxes and stuff like that. That
so in order to appease the argument, because that's the
ways the biggest argument for other business owners is well,
they can just come in and sell food and then
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leave and not have to pay any of the city
taxes or anything like that. So I think they do
that too. Of quelched that argument a little bit.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
I mean, at the end of the day, it's your
choice if you want a brick and mortar business.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Yeah, which I'm rethinking way to be angry. Justin says
he's been to a food next to a food truck
that had a non inverter generator and his teeth a riddle. Yeah.
We we had one of those next to us this
last weekend and it was seven feet away from our porch,
(02:32):
just because they had all they had a stick. I
saw him pull in. I said, Chris, you are going
to hate this day because it's gonna get loud. You
can see it. They open the open frame rack in. Yeah.
It was five feet from the.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Old hickory for the old hickory and fall off. Yeah.
So speaking of speaking of hickory, you had it mounted
last week. Yeah, we talked about that last week. Remember
I was in and out I was, I was.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
It has not fallen off. The twelve little bolts are
holding struck.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
We did. We bolted through the frame somewhere, did we.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Not the frame, but through that so that there's the
diamond plate, which then is on top of a steel
The whole porch is of steel plate. There's a steel Yeah,
there's a steel plate there and then the diamond plate
on top of it.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Really interesting, okay, cool.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Yeah, there's yeah, that makes sense that that they wouldn't
do plywood down there at all. I mean, think of
how heavy those slippers are.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Yeah, I haven't. I have not seen one that doesn't
have plywood underneath the diamond plade. Is what kind of
where I was going with that? A cool?
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Yeptually, I just bolted right through, right through those two layers.
My guy said it should be fine. He told me
which graded bolts to use, because they're the bolt holes
for where those wheels were. Those are the ones we
used whre wheels attached. We just use the feet. They're
not very so you're not using very large bolts to
(04:06):
go through there, which had me nervous, but he said, yep,
just make sure Grade eight or whatever the heavier. Yeah,
so we have those on there, and yeah, as far
as we know, it hasn't moved. We check them every
every couple of trips to make sure that everything's still
tighter as part of our rocks underneath it.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Yah.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Yeah, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
The metal underneath the diamond plate like secured to the
frame that I assume Yeah it's yeah. Oh, I'm just
I haven't seen it like that. Yeah, it's welded to
the frame. The metal is.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
The steel plate that's on the porch is welded to
the frame of the it's not going I didn't realize
it's not just sitting down there loose.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Yeah. Wow, that's awesome. That's really good engineer.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
So they're mentions.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Baby, Yeah, there's one for sale right now in my town.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
That's other Dimension.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Twenty twenty.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Should get it.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
I thought about it numerous times this quarter. This quarter
is taxes, so that was a lot. That was a lot.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Actually sorry, yeah, I was Square would stud hey, your
sales TAXI davo excuse me, d A v oh. It's
a it's a third party service that links in with
(05:48):
your Square and they will do it automatically. Yeah, yeah,
d A v oh I think is what it is.
Novo yep.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
So yeah, it integrates right with Square.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
I got another hard sell from Huntington about switching over
to Clover and all their services, and you know, if
we want to use them for payroll. It's like, no, no,
I don't. I don't want to use any of it,
I said. I I am. I'm happy that I'm so
far into bed with Square that it makes it hard
to get out. But it's so damn convenient, Like I
(06:27):
don't want to go to three different spots for all
this stuff. You know, it's very easy for me to
manage all of it in one spot. And until that changes,
I have no reason to leave. The cost for me
is not prohibitive.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
My landlord told me how much he's paying for UH
payroll services through mm hmm, I guess through quick Books,
so he uses they used toast in the in the
in the cafe. I think he was using quick Books
(07:03):
And it's one hundred and thirty dollars a month, and
like then like thirty something dollars.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
A week.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
To run payroll or per run or something like that,
whether it's one week or two weeks, I can't remember,
it was that, but and I'm looking at what I
pay through Square, like it's thirty dollars a month and
six bucks an employee, like yeah, pay every two weeks.
And I'm way under that. And I'm like, I'm trying
(07:34):
to think, like, why the hell do you have so
much so much in peril cost? Yeah, it's yeah. Or
he tells me that they made X amount of dollars
and over half of his expense was payroll. I'm like,
how is that possible? Well, and That's what I'm That's
(07:57):
what I was trying to understand it. If you told
me he did, you know X of dollars and like
over half of that was payroll, ort, payroll cost whatever.
But he includes I mean payroll and his taxes, insurance,
everything that goes into payroll. He uses that as.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
A well payroll and benefits then so is he no.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Benefits just like what I mean by insurance like unemployment insurance.
So I mean he puts that all as a lump sum.
But how the blue hell did you have that much?
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Well then still, I mean, even if you use average,
he's thirty percent in taxes and insurance and stuff.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
I'm like, if you're paying is if you're paying your
people half of what you make, like either you're not
charging enough or you're paying your people too much? Right
am I? Am I wrong in thinking that?
Speaker 2 (08:53):
No? That's yeah, I mean, that's yeah, he's it's his
his payroll labor is too high.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
It's crazy.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Next industry standard. I think it tops out like twenty
four percent as the highest you should be or something
like that. So even if he's at twenty four percent,
he still has twenty six percent. Another payroll related expenses
unless he's including himself in there.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
As far as I know, they don't take any money.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Good stuff. I don't know. I didn't. I didn't really
get too far into that. Yeah, god knows it comes out.
But yeah, interesting, interesting, That doesn't sound awesome, No.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Really doesn't. But we are we're really but no, yeah,
we're really outgrowing our spot though, So I think we're
gonna start looking for something new. Yeah, yeah, we're really outgrowing.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Is that just just because you're outgrowing it?
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Yeah? I would love to have a walk in cooler
like I would love.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Yeah, like love, But do you you only have a
do you don't even have like a three door two
door fridge, two door delfield fridge and then a one
door fridge that we use for all our cheese and
sauces and milk.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
But most of our meat goes into the two door fridge. Okay,
even the racks that are in that two door fridge.
And you put eighty pounds of brisket on a rack,
it starts to yeah. But other than now, m.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
I think, yeah, we try to find something. Sorry, No,
you're good. So yeah, we had a pretty good week
last week. Roadside has been slow, Like I said, neighborhoods
have been a little hit and miss, and some of
our even normal weekday spots have been a little like
(10:58):
our corwell, healths have been slower than what we'd like
to see and that kind of thing. I think it's
just summer vacations and stuff like that. But we still
managed twelve thousand last week for you.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Damn.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Yeah. I mean the festival helped when we did five
Friday Saturday combined, so or just over five and Friday
and Saturday, so that helps considerably. We did twenty nine
on Friends Saturday. That's higher than I thought we did exactly.
(11:37):
So yeah, we were tips. No, no, it doesn't I
know how to pull my reports angry.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
I'm not angry. So yeah, we did that festival. We did.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
It was I think we were just about six last year.
Fifty nine I think is what we did last year
for between Friday and Saturday. So we were down a
little bit this year, which sucks, but it was kind
of weird some of the patterns and traffic flow if
(12:16):
we would have Saturday was where we lost. Where we're
really done. We were down a couple hundred bucks Saturday,
but we ran out of brisket and as soon as
we started putting sold out signs up on the menu,
people just kind of like not even walk all the
way over, like they'd see the sold out signs and
then just turned around like they were thinking that we
were sold out of everything.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
There's there's a lot of people that were.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Looking just for brisket and didn't want to think about
anything else. And so yeah, if we would have had
another brisket on board, we probably would have hit probably
would have beaten last year. That first day of that festival.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Oh yeah, you went to the dewagiac don't watch that.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
It is okay, then Watchack Yeah Jack, there's Summer Fest. Yeah,
dog Patch, as the locals refer to it. Yeah, it's
a good it's a good small town festival. It is
zero stress for us. It's never super super busy. I
mean I went I think Saturday went an hour and
(13:16):
a half where I wasn't clear, you know, I was
just making food. I mean, but we did back to
back I think we Yeah, so we did like an
eight nine hundred back to back hours. You know, it's
like and it's we're just kind of cruise along and
there's not a whole lot of stress. And to have
a couple of good salad days like that. Yeah, we
get a little hotel. It was like a mile and
(13:38):
a half from there. I went to the hotel for
the night And.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Did Troy make the trip for now? Oh he doesn't work, No.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Not usually he works some weekends.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
But no, I don't.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
I'm not paying him to drive down there. That seems
kind of stupid. But yeah, that was a that's a
good event. We have some more catering this week, hopefully
a couple of big events. The was it? What are
we doing on Friday? Some group is having their international convention.
(14:13):
What month are we in? Gideon's International is having their
big giant conference in Grand Rapids. So they arranged to
some have some trucks downtown Grand Rapids in the vicinity
Rosa Park Circle where there's food trucks on Thursdays. So
(14:34):
I talked them into a minimum, not a lot, but
we'll be down there for lunch and then heading over
to food truck Fridays that day. So yeah, it would
be a pretty good week. Just hoping that the roadside
kind of picks up a little bit, we start to
see a turn there would be nice. But yeah, we
(14:54):
had our six year anniversary yesterday, well Saturday technically was
our six year anniversary. Yeah, July nineteenth, twenty nineteen. It
was our first day. So we gave out I don't know,
like fifty cupcakes yesterday, fifty cupcakes and gave six people
free food at random, just cause us to celebrate our anniversary.
(15:24):
I'm sorry I didn't connect the doctors.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
There's there was no electric in between.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Sorry, are a little way to celebrate and show appreciation
for a customer. So yep, Chris and Madison round the truck.
I would send a text message at random times between
eleven and four to Madison's that next person gets free food.
It's as random as we could have made it without
taking their human decision making into account, so which means
(15:57):
then we gave away I think four hex are like
every order. It was like a rack of rooms. And
I told her, I said, you can't let them know
their orders free until they're done order. You know, that way,
you're not swaying them at all. But like Madison's mom
popped up and she just happened to be the person.
You know, It's like, okay, it's the way it works,
(16:20):
you know. It's like I don't know.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Are you still doing TikTok lives at all?
Speaker 2 (16:27):
No, And that's mostly because of our generator issues that
we're still having. So because the extra it's not a
lot of extra power to run all that stuff, but
our battery backup that's on there, I mean when it
pops in and poles draw. So yeah, as soon as
we get all our generatorship figured out, we actually put
the the Durhamax back on the trailer because it had
(16:48):
a module modular module we replaced that it was running.
I was able to start it up and keep it
running until we put it on the trailer, and then
like five minutes after it kicked back down. So I
got to call them back today seriously. Unfortunately, their support
is in California, so from what I've heard, it's usually
(17:10):
we send you one part and then we send you
a new generator. So I'm expecting a new generator.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Did it come me?
Speaker 2 (17:19):
I'm a next phone call. So yeah, hopefully. It's kind
of a pain of the ass using the predator because
it's like the plug that we plug into is all
lucy goosey. The push start ignition is starting to not
push start so easily.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
So my first Predator is still in my garage. It's
got like sixteen hundred hours on it. I went to
start it the other day just to just to get
the carburetor all good, and yep, uh, the push button
doesn't I mean, the battery is probably dead, so I
couldn't push start it. So I pulled it. The cord broke.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
We've never been I've never been able to pull start
my Prince since.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
The only way I was able to do that one
this one's I tried. I tried.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
I've tried a few times to pull start it and
it would never it would never pull start. And then yeah,
one day the handle was just gone off the pole
start Like I don't know what happened to it because
we never used it.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
It was just gone.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
But so yeah, so yeah, we just have to go
on and off a couple of times and then it'll
kick in. So I don't know if it's maybe a
spark plug issue or whatever, but the battery is fine.
But once we started having those problems is when we
really pushed towards getting the new generator. So but whatever
it is, what it is, I'm hoping to have it
(18:43):
taken care of the problem that we really have now
is with the smoker, because with the other smoker, it
ran off the fireboard, the fan of everything ran off
the fiber which has a battery in it. So we
can run off that battery for hours. So rolling down
the road, no problem, we can leave. The smoker runs fine.
Right now, we don't because the predator will shut down.
(19:07):
Now as soon as we start moving, the truck shuts down.
So I don't know if there's if there's if they
have one of those jostling alert things in there, than
that maybe has gone bad over time, you know, if
it shakes too much of the Okay.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
You're well, you're well more than mine, right.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Yeah, And everything's been cleaned. The resistor, it's all just
justin says he starts his with a screwdriver. Whatever it takes.
Do you look at first and then stick it in there. Yeah,
we've done oil changes regularly on it. It's all been
taking manage, maintained pretty well. So we change the resistor, yeah,
(19:47):
so yeah, we can't.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
We can't we change like what's it called, the resistor
or the the part over the exhaust needs to be
changed or needs to be cleaned because it's like a.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Oh that we don't. That's I have a little scream
that's on there. We don't even have one of those.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Okay, just blow that ship out there. Why not?
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Fantastic, he says, he jumps it. It's very exciting every
time we start the generator, I have so yeah, so yeah,
we used to be able to roll down the road
with the generator running and the trailer plugged in. That's
not really functional at the moment. So yeah, we have
(20:32):
to be careful.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
We have a battery backup, put stuff or for the smoker.
Can I run off a battery?
Speaker 2 (20:39):
I got twelve, I'm sure, But then I gotta figure
out where I gotta where I can mount a battery
backup out there to plug it into, because you're talking
like a PC battery backup, which is get a mountain
one out there for.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Twelvel Just put a marine battery out there. No, I'm
not gonna every box and plug it in when you
when you leave. Should be a way to do it now.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
But then I got to recharge the battery, put a
trickle charger on it.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
We're okay, figure it out.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Got all this fucking equipment on my porch. We try
to avoid looking at as hillbilly as possible most of
the time that you don't use I guess stuff and
that's that. That's where we keep all our cleaning stuff
for the smoker, right, our spatulism and things that we
clean up the smoker with. HM that I might have
(21:33):
to make a functional sink and then put in uh
a request for change of s ops because the last
person that did our sanitariut. So I don't see any
alterations to your SOPs for the sink not being used
because it was in the original sp as the original equipment.
So you have to ask for modifications to be done
(21:56):
if you modify or change equipment in your trailer. So
she was getting a little fus about the sink that
the handwashed sink that was never used.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
Fuck, they would have liked me because I took out
the vegetable sink I had.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
I none of that equipment's the original equipment in that trailer.
But yeah, anyways, so yeah, that's I mean, which is
not a big great It'll be fine once we get
the other generator back on. I'm wrekinnigan. It's not a
big we just gotta it's just an issue sometimes when
(22:28):
we have these hour long drives. We just have to
be conscious of what's on and what's that. It doesn't
it holds tempature fine as long as you're not, you know,
driving down the road at eighty miles an hour. So yes,
we got it figured out. It's uh, timing.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Wise, we've got most of that figured out. I think.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
We've had a couple of really long cooks. Just as
we're playing with some stuff, we're using a water pan
now in there.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
They need it so.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
It helps. So it allows us to be able to
put pork butts and briskets on that top shelf without
having to wrap them to keep them from drying out,
like the crust from drying out. So just have them.
They don't have him with an inch of water in there,
does wonders. So yeah, yeah, everything has been good. Yeah
(23:23):
we are. We're doing good, man, we're doing good.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
We we We basically almost got inside my smoker or
clean it the other day. Yeah, you would fit, you'd
think so, but no, it was kind of tough. I
was very very dirty when it was over. But I
bought a power washer because I needed one, So we
powerwasher ship out of that smoker, and a clean smoker
(23:45):
is a good smoker. Was that the first time you've
cleaned it to this point. Yes, I mean I've clean
I've taken take the racks out every week and take
them to the car washing power washing. But this is
the first time that we actually don't wah, you don't
clean the inside when you clean their ax out. No,
not really, I mean there's nothing really to clean. I guess, yes, sir,
(24:07):
I finally finally started seeing soot just cake. So that's
when I took out actually took out the took out
the shelves and then they took out the.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Racks and left just the bar in the middle, and
I just washed everything. Yeah, he's a he's a paint scraper.
Every week, just go through the edges and get all
that because even though we're in pans, I mean, stuff
still splatters and you get stuff. Yeah, I mean spend
a Yes, we spend a half an hour a week
(24:38):
to do it, and then you can usually avoid the
full on power washing like we we'll probably we'll probably
go through with oven cleaner and stuff once we hit
the end of the season and get it back to
sparkly sparkly inside. But uh, Jonah Hill is gonna play
golf legend John Daily in an upcoming movie.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
I could almost see that, yesh. So anyways, who we
are not up fifty percent on the year, unfortunately last
week we almost were almost did. We're seven hundred dollars
(25:22):
short of our entire July total last year, so we
were all.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Knee surgery house and we still do hay. So yeah,
We're three grand above last July right now to date,
so not bad. Up roughly ten percent on the month
and the year, so good. Yeah, we'll take it. We're
(25:51):
gonna take it. Better be up than down one hundred percent.
I am nervous about September because that was a pretty
solid month for u S last year, which was a
little bit of surprise. So hopefully hopefully we can get
there again. That wouldn't be super shocked if we ended
up down a little bit in September from last September.
(26:13):
So yeah, yeah. Other than that, I mean, things are
going good. Just trying to get stuff done, you know,
trying to get ready we uh where I got my
HVAC guy and my g C all meeting up tomorrow
at Arby's. Oh we're gonna walk through that bad boy.
(26:39):
See how much it's gonna cost me to get it
to working. Doesn't sound like the tenant wants to put
any money into anything when or split any Yeah, that's
what I said, of course, or split any potential maintenance
costs in relations to h VAC and or parking lot.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
So does that mean you'd take it with you if
you leave.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
I'm not taking an HVAC off the roof of the building. No,
nor am I going to depave the the parking lot
if it has to be reserviced.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
But you will negotiate lower potential lower rent for said improvement. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Do you have an attorney working with you or a
real estate agent or is it just you using an agent?
Speaker 2 (27:26):
So it's the So the guy I'm using is the
guy that showed me the first place, who he represented
the the landlord at the first place. But he's not
tied just to him obviously, so I'm now his client
as well and other properties. So his company doesn't that
(27:47):
doesn't have the the RB solicit so it's another agency altogether.
So he's making sure we.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
Don't get so there's no conflict ad interest.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
Nope.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
So have you officially pulled out of the other one? No?
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Nope, nope. And Matt we're actually walking both properties tomorrow
with the contractor, so good to get an idea of
costs for both places to help because rent at ourbi'ss
twice as much. Almost would you utilize the dun through?
(28:22):
Uh not right away if we do it all. So yeah,
that's a whole other animal, right, and that one not
necessarily want to tackle anytime soon. And my realtor. Realtor
(28:42):
was going to double check with the city to make
sure that it's still licenses a as a drive through location.
So apparently you have to drive through license license through
potentially the city like they can say no, you can't
have a drive through, which I had no idea it
was a government politics, but yeah, yeah, he said he
(29:03):
had another person. I had another group that got into
a building and start running the drive through and they
got shut down because they weren't licensed to have a
drive through, like that license had expired or whatever. It
wasn't transferred or whatever it was. And yeah, so they
had to go through this whole application process to get
their drive through opened again.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
That's crazy.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
So yeah, yeah, hopefully we get some good news tomorrow. Yeah,
when we'll go from there. You got a fifty six
thousand dollars square loan offer sitting out there.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
Oh, I just I just gonna square a lot. I'm
gonna have one out currently.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
But nineteen percent.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
Of sales, that's not that bad compared to what I've seen. No,
I understand it's a lot, but it's not. Yeah, that's
not horrible for what I've seen.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
So I've had three now, I think I've gotten one
each of the last three years over the winter, just
for a little cushion. And we did the renovations on
the trailer and stuff and the smoker last year. So
I think I think we've done twenty thirty and thirty
is the three.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
That we've done.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
So the payback period on those is eighteen months, twenty
four months or something like that, Like you have to
you have to have pay back in that amount. We've
never made it longer than before. It's payback. Like our
payment history with them has been so good, Like why
can't we get better terms? But I've never gone over
fifteen for sixteen percent for sales paybacks, Like you give
(30:48):
me the fifty four at the sixteen percent that we
have always had and I'm in, But I mean, at
some point in time my history has to have some
very non future. Sure.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
We always get told that we can get better offers
if we link a bank account, which we've we've accounts.
But yeah, which I'm already I mean, we're already there.
I've already done it.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
So your your other business counseling, not just your square
account of my other business counselint. Yeah, so I don't
believe it. Yeah, but maybe I don't know who knows,
who knows? But yeah, fifty four is what my current
(31:36):
offer is, fifty three four, which I mean really, your
payback is borrow fifty three four a payback sixty one
two fifty which is the.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
Last one that I took out was twenty one and
my repayments ten percent.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
Yeah. Yeah, so this is this is fifty three at
twenty percent of sales, I can get down to sixteen
sixteen and says sixteen point twenty five is forty three
is what I can borrow.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
Yeah, it's just but.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
And it says, please reconnect your bank. Okay, let me reconnect.
See if I that this does awesome things for me,
and I.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
See online that there's a lot of people that are
like getting uh bitching that bit. We'll say bitching, complaining
about square loans and things like that because they charge
a loan fee or whatever, and I'm like, you know what,
it is so much it's the best thing you will get.
(32:48):
Here's the thing is, it's they're thinking when it says
ten percent of sales that that's the interest. I'm like,
this isn't a traditional loan. It's called a capital You're
borrowing your own money and they're they're facility tating it
for you. Right, So it's like, yeah, it's the best
loan you can get because they already know that you're
making money or that you you know, you have money
(33:10):
coming in, like I've already like my minimum payment has
already been reached for like August, right.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
But yeah, it's so it's the so, yeah, the the
sales combined with the length of the loan is where
I I because we've paid back so early every time,
Like let's let's let's bump the percentage down and we'll
still do it within the eighteen months, you know, so
as long as we're not extending that period, like everything's
(33:44):
still the same. Like you're still gonna get all your
money in the timeframe that you want.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
To get it.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
You know, just make it a little bit easier on,
you know, not have such a huge percentage taken out.
Uh so yeah, I don't know, we'll see. So yeah,
we'll use hopefully, I mean that's we can use part
of that for renovation, and then the whatever other money
we need to borrow is at such a higher amount,
(34:12):
you know, will be a whole lot less theory. So
but yeah, I mean there's another CTO going to be
ordered with a brick and mortar, so we can't we
can't do both with the one.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
Apol. My dogs are barking.
Speaker 2 (34:37):
Oh yeah, my feet had been hurting too.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
Actually, my do you ever go for a pedicure?
Speaker 2 (34:44):
It's been a while. I but yes, I've had one.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
Did they change your life? No? Yeah, I would feel
bad for the Asian people that would touch my feet.
Speaker 2 (35:03):
I'm sure they've seen worse.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
Oh I'm sure they have. Yeah. I think, yeah, getting
a it's much I think it's much better to get
a square loan just because it's again, you're just borrowing
your own money. Right. This was the highest sixty eight
minimum payment I've ever had though.
Speaker 2 (35:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
Yeah, because any so, anybody, if you've never taken out
a square loan. You have to make a payment every
sixty days, so like if for some reason you're off
or not doing anything, that's why it's really good.
Speaker 2 (35:37):
If your minimum has to be met every sixty Yes.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
Your minimum. That's why it's actually kind of really good
for the winter time because you're really not doing anything
during the winter time. By the time your first payment
really is due, you're at least possibly out there working.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
Right, So yeah, it's yeah, yeah, we'll see. So that's wet. Yeah,
seventy one hundred bucks is all that costs you. You're
not going to get any better than that anywhere.
Speaker 1 (36:14):
Especially, Yeah, if you consider whatever interest rate a commercial
loan company is going to charge you, I mean happen
on a small business that's half predatory to begin and.
Speaker 2 (36:23):
What they can, yeah, what they consider to be high risk.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
Yeah, you're probably at a venture small business taking out
let's say, a fifty thousand loan, you're probably a ten
percent interest at the very minimum, if not, if you're interesting. Yeah,
so that's five grand right there. Not to mention whatever
their fee is to do the loan, you're i mean,
you're at well over what score would charge.
Speaker 2 (36:49):
Yeah. Again, you're just yeah, I mean and if you're
looking at I mean food trucks going up and looking
at I mean some of these loan companies. I mean
I used one for to buy the trailer, you know,
for essentially at least, I mean we were for of
our original amount. We paid over one hundred thousand dollars
(37:10):
for our fifty eight thousand dollars trailer.
Speaker 1 (37:12):
Lovely so.
Speaker 2 (37:17):
But we made it work. So so yeah, yeah, we'll
see what we see you tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (37:29):
Hopefully we'll have some.
Speaker 2 (37:30):
Good news to report or at least something to report
tomorrow or after tomorrow. But yeah, I think we'll call
it today. Oh FTO conference was this last week. From
what I saw on the Facebook, it looked like turnout
was really good. Looked like the crowd was substantially bigger
than last year. And they announced their summer location for
(37:53):
next year August first week August ve GUS in Austin, Texas.
So I'll throw that on my calendar and hopefully can
(38:14):
make it work. That didn't see a fall location announced,
so I don't if they're gonna wait for the fall
location until in New Jersey real quick on their website
see if they haven't listed.
Speaker 1 (38:25):
And while you're saying that I don't know if we
ever mentioned. Obviously, anybody that's in barbecue knows that Texas
barbecue is they have. I mean, it's a religion down there.
And so they have the Texas Texas Monthly Top fifty
barbecue joints and Bernard Servantes with the Burnt Bean Company
(38:49):
at the number one spot this year, and everybody that
I've heard then there is amazed and definitely here he
earned it for sure. There's a couple of little ones
that I follow at Franklin. I don't I didn't look
at the Monthly. I just know that she got first.
Speaker 2 (39:17):
There.
Speaker 1 (39:17):
He's he's never I mean, I don't think I'll ever
fall out of it, but well no, I don't think
out of it. But he's he's much of a celebrity now, may.
Speaker 2 (39:34):
M hm.
Speaker 1 (39:35):
Trusy. So to grab them, to grab the top fifty,
they visited three hundred and nineteen joints in Texas. It's
a lot, it's a lot of places.
Speaker 2 (39:57):
Yeah, the fall location has not been released, yeah for
next year, but Austin, Texas, the dates are OK. So
I lost it. I lost it? Where to go? Under spotlight?
Speaker 1 (40:20):
Where that? Where did it go? I? Just thought it
went away.
Speaker 2 (40:26):
Yeah, from there and there there most seasons. Why day
blah blah blah blah blah, good morning, showed up, showed out,
blah blah blah.
Speaker 1 (40:39):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (40:40):
First week of August, I believe, go here it is.
It doesn't have the dates on there. Austin, Texas saved
the date August fourth and fifth, everybody. So that'll be
my preferred location, depending on where the other one is.
It would be awesome if it in Vegas in the
winter though, that'd be cool. I take there.
Speaker 1 (41:01):
Eight of the top fifty in just Austin.
Speaker 2 (41:03):
Alone, that's crazy. So where would Where did Franklin?
Speaker 1 (41:11):
And he doesn't. I can't find it. I mean he's
still on there, but I don't know.
Speaker 2 (41:18):
I feared he was one of the eight in Austin.
Speaker 1 (41:20):
He is one of the eight in Austin. I'm just saying,
I don't know. I don't he doesn't show what a
number is. Ah, gotcha. There's a lot that I want
to go to that. It's just that that I've seen
on Facebook that have looked really, really good. Yeah, but
there's one I follow in uh in May Bank, Texas.
(41:44):
It's called B four barbecue. Okay, he's in He's in
the back of a feed store. He uh he. Ever
since he got in the top fifty, he has obviously
blown up, but it's a total of Now he's filling
(42:06):
two thousand or he's filling two one thousand gallon smokers
every day or not every day, but the days that
he's open. I got one. He's one of his recipes.
Speaker 2 (42:16):
The Snows and Franklin are both out of the top ten.
Speaker 1 (42:25):
Yes they are. I said they were definitely were not
in the top ten. Goldies is still in the top
ten though Interstellar for good things. I've heard of Truth,
and I've heard of Danes number nine and number seven. Mm. Interesting,
(42:49):
there's one that is in U called heim Barbecue. H G.
I M. They did a video on doing bacon burn in,
so they take slab bacon and make burn in out
of it. So I've tried it. I didn't really like
how it came out though there wasn't a it didn't
have a bacon taste to it. Joe was surprised. It
(43:11):
just had more fat. But he also does his own bacon,
so maybe that's.
Speaker 4 (43:18):
Why Franklin is listed in the Best of the Rest sections.
Speaker 1 (43:31):
Which I don't know what that is the best of
the probably the top forty about that.
Speaker 2 (43:39):
Or all right, six there's seven listed on that list.
M Oh no, it goes bown further. Okay, I'm going
to say then they are number twelve or thirteen. Yes,
(44:01):
I'm gonna say. At the top of this page is
number eleven.
Speaker 1 (44:05):
Thanks.
Speaker 2 (44:05):
So yeah, yeah, you can go to the meat map.
Speaker 1 (44:16):
Yeah that's where I went. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (44:21):
Anyways, all right, everybody, everybody, have a good week. I
gotta get to work. Skippy, have a good week. I
have a happy week. Half Are you back to the
shops back open tomorrow?
Speaker 1 (44:33):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (44:34):
Excellent, that's a thumbs up from Skippy.
Speaker 1 (44:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (44:37):
Perfect. All right, everybody, have a good week. We will
see you next week Monday, as far as I know already,
have a good one.
Speaker 1 (44:46):
Talk to you later. Bye bye, okay, okay,
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