May 26, 2025 • 44 mins
It's Memorial Day 2025! How was the last week with pretty cold and rainy weather? Is Josh unravelling at the seams? Is Skippy looking to divorce his landlord? Can Skippy catch Josh in Sales? This and much much more on this weeks episode.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Fantastic.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
These are the tales and ramblings of two men their
dream of running a successful food truck business in life.
We invite you along to join Josh and Skippy on
this journey. This is Monday morning, food truck woo m
(00:47):
Good morning, Skippy. Wake up, Joshua, I am wide awake
as always. To answer your question, No, it's not a
busier morning. I was just trying to get in my
trip to g f S before the show. Oh, since
we don't have the children currently. And yeah, just got
out there toil late.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Start because.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
I had some task paralysis. So I was trying to overcome.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
The task paralysis, which we happen. You didn't want to
do anything.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
You get overwhelmed by the list of things that need
to be done, so you choose to do nothing.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Oh okay, you know, so fighting that urge byproduct instead
of the urge to do nothing. Yeah. So we uh yeah,
this last seven days. Yeah, it's been good. I've been trying.
(01:48):
I been trying. It's been trying, okay. We I was
feeling pretty good.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
When we after we did the show. It's really good,
and then it's been downhill quickly.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Oh why why so?
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Why so?
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Like, don't leave our listeners hanging. I know we've got two.
Maybe there's two. Let's just jump right in. What Well,
we had a comment. We had a comment on our
weekly scheduled post. I don't know if you saw it
or not. No, I did not somebody that look right
now though, can if you want somebody that was looking
(02:26):
for to finally try in our truck. I had tried
it on Sunday.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
I think I want to say Sunday right, let's go
with Sunday at the food truck festival that we had. Yeah,
it was very disappointed.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Well, why why are four?
Speaker 3 (02:44):
The meat was good, the mac and cheese was horrible?
End of comment.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
I'm wondering if it's the same lady that gave me
the same exact comment.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
It was not a lady, But I responded to the comment.
I sent a personal message looking for more information, so
you know, we can correct what is clearly wrong with
this person's brain. Sure, and got zero responses.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
My people.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
You're one of my people also responded to his comment,
not in a negative way or defending us. Really, I'm
just saying that maybe a personal message would have been
a better format for the comment, versus on a boosted
public post, which is and I said, I'm fine with it.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Doesn't bother me at all. We have nothing to hide.
Did that person then respond to that comment, respond to
that comment, but none of the stuff that I did,
of course, So yeah, which is awesome. Nice. And then
we had a three star review on Tuesday. Oh okay, okay,
(04:00):
it's been a week. Was there some context or just
a three star review? There was some context.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
The long and short of it was, you know what, No,
I'm gonna read this one.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Please please do.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
So the backstory is he messaged me asking if we
were going to have online order it available for that
night because it wasn't active at four o'clock. For whatever
I had thought, I turned it on, it was not
turned on. I said, oh yeah, absolutely, let me go
ahead and take.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Care of that. So I got in and did it,
and so he places an order. All is good. I'd
see the order come through, and.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
We had forgotten to take wings off from Saturday when
we ran or Sunday had been ran it as a special,
and he had ordered some wings along with brisket and
mac and cheese. Okay, so I should have a message
said I'm sorry, we don't have wings today, Can I
get you something else? And I already I had already
(05:01):
done the refund, so it was already on its way.
So you guys still have rib tips somewhere and I said, yeah,
I'm pretty sure we do. Shouldn't be a problem. He said, okay,
I'll go ahead and place another order then for those
and just have it on with my other order.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
It's great, no problem. And then I.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Get first I got a Facebook message saying picture on
the website shows slice brisket, but clearly this is not
Slice brisket twenty seven dollars for chopped brisket, which I
did not respond to. And maybe I should have and
I wouldn't have gotten a three star review. I don't know,
(05:36):
but I was busy. I was doing things. My picture
online does not show you it's either Mine is a
competition box.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
So if that's what you're expecting, again, that's what you're expecting.
I am so very sorry. But anyways, I think you
find a competition local. You might be able to pick
some up up the street somewhere.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
All right, here is the review. I was going to
reserve my opinion until I had the chance to try
them fresh In quotation marks. Well, it was the third
time eating from this truck. All barbecue comes down to
timing of when you eat it. I can't seem to
eat here, eat there when they've cooked something fresh. The
(06:22):
mac and cheese was very good, Thank you. Apparently we've
fixed our Sunday problem.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Okay, little victories, Little victories.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Brisket was very dry, but that happens when it shredded
to pieces. A little disappointing when you order a pound
of a pound of what looks like slice brisket and
get left over chopped sandwich brisket.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
For twenty seven dollars.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Oh, and then he'd put pictures of the menu picture
and what he got and the picture he posted.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
I mean maybe, but it does not look dry. Whatever.
So josh wa, you can't please everybody. Nope, nope. And
I also commented on him, and I didn't that good
response back. Did did you get did he say anything
(07:21):
about the room tips no yah, or the missing wings
or so that that drops us down to wow, what
was that? That was a semi? I thought it was
a plane. Yeah, that was an engine breaking semi going
down our road, probably way too fast. I thought that
(07:44):
was a bomb.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Yeah, So that drops us our Google review down to
a four point eight from a four point nine. Well, remember,
soon we won't be we won't be readed any higher
than hot.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Now there's a place for everybody. But there's a place
since since I last week we talked about how you
uh inadvertently through your stats in my face as I
was asking you about something. I will then go ahead,
and I'm not done with my week yet. Oh we've
(08:27):
only made it to Tuesday. Can we have a squirrel moment?
Real quick, squirrel? Go ahead, all right, squirrel moment? Squirrel?
You were talking about reviews this this Saturday, even Saturday.
One day, we received three five star Google reviews, all
(08:47):
with awesome stuff, and we are still currently listed on
Google as a stratulations good jad buddy forty reviews, forty
reviews we only have thirty three? Yeah, but I asked
for him, you don't I love reviews? But oh we
(09:10):
have some. We have some comments coming in from the youtubes.
Where's Jason or Justin or Steve? Oh this is the
guy that reviewed me. I'm kidding, your brisket sucked.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
Let's see Andrew, oh debt the bill? I yeah, this
is a first time, longtime listener, first time caller, probably,
They said, we had plenty of issues with our online
ordering on Thursday. For three years we've turned off online
ordering for the Farmer's Market, too busy to have on
(09:45):
and when we moved to our roadside location for dinner
Thursday night, we turned it back. On the past Thursday,
we had five people placing their online orders for pickup
at dinner but called and wanted to pick it up
at the Farmer's Market. Ah Andrews, the owner of the
mobile Crave. Oh okay, Andrew, Hello Andrew. So yeah, I
(10:09):
love online ordering and I hate online ordering. Our online
ordering woes have gotten much better once we have implemented
the whole inventory thing much better. That helps so much.
So yeah, we yeah, it makes it a lot easier.
So Wednesday, good lord man, it was a week. I'm
(10:37):
going to vent a little bit, but not not details.
All week long, there was a whole lot of complaints
from my staff about my staff.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
From your staff.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Yes, boy, there it's been a long year and I
think it's yep, ten weeks in. But when you look
at the last few that we've had and it's been busy,
it's been a little trying it's been some stress, new processes,
new dishes to.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Wash, a lot going on this year in me not
being on.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
The truck hardly at all. Doesn't that help? So I
received a flurry of text messages in regards to how
the trailer looked, how it was left from the night before.
Other staff not happy with them, being prodded for information
(11:39):
from the other two staff members about these other staff members,
about what they're doing when they're there.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Oh boy, have a little team meeting.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
General grumpiness being reported towards us a a particular staff member.
So that was Wednesday morning to afternoon on what was
my first day that I was trying to step away
from the truck for a day after working that whole
(12:14):
weekend and then having to do Monday stuff and then
work the truck Tuesday. I was trying to take Wednesday
and Thursday away.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Nope.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
And then Wednesday night I get a message from Felicia
saying that she has a doctor's appointment on Friday that
she's rescheduled a few times because.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Of she was doctor's appointment. She forgot job interview. Is
what this was?
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Oh that she couldn't It was a it was a
surgery like a yeah, whatever, a pre surgery appointment that
she's rescheduled a bunch of times, and they told her
if she was going to reschedule it again that she was,
they were going to drop her from the calendar and
she would thought she'd have this Friday at that Friday
off because it was her every other weekend. First of all,
(13:03):
she has asked for one thousand fridays, so for me
to keep track of which weekend is her every other weekend?
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Put him in the calendar. Did you ask you a question?
Do you sure? Do you use the square team? App? Yep?
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Okay, all right, good, yep? So they put all their
days off the requests in there. She so she has
her kids every other weekend, so I didn't have her
put every other weekend in it because I didn't want
to reprove four thousand requests and I would just But
then she started asking for weekend days off that she
was supposed to be working, so things got jumbled up.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Sure, and she told me if we needed her for
a particular weekend, it wasn't a big deal whatever. I said, fine,
don't worry about it. I got you covered.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
And in that same message, she finally let me know
that she was looking for another job, okay, but that
she she would make sure that she gave us notice
and we weren't going to be left high and dry.
I said, okay, just so you know, I am going
to start looking for your replacement and training them.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Okay both Leason, Yeah, I'm sorry. Okay, So is that
Thursday and Friday or was that just Thursday? This is
a Wednesday? Oh that's Wednesday? Still okay? Yeah? So yeah,
I ended up having to pick up her shift on Friday,
(14:24):
a whole lot of job interview. She couldn't work a
different shift, so yep. And then I hear from her
Saturday night, Oh, I found a suitable employer. I'm leaving
you and drive yep, seriously yep. But there's more. Oh Dirty,
(14:51):
I'd be.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Willing to stay with you if you can give me
a bump to fifteen dollars. And you said, Las, that
is not happening. But I'm assuming that you're going to
finish out your two scheduled shifts.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
That's all. She has two shifts this week, just like Nope,
they want me to start on Monday. Oh, it's okay.
Did you happen to highlight doc where she said, I
won't leave you high and dry. Nope. I have not
responded after I said bye, I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
So it looks like I am working pretty much all
week this week on the truck. But not only that,
we got more. This is where there is more.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
This is where my task paralysis kind of set in
this morning. This is good, This is good. I haven't
heard any of this. I'm i'm i'm eating the popcorn, or.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
As i'm as I'm working to get next week's schedules.
The next schedule STUF, which is the first week of June,
which goes through the seventh. On the seventh of June,
we have the Caledonia Farmer's Market in the morning. We
have an apartment complex pool party that we're catering for.
We have a graduation open house. We have two weddings.
(16:20):
Oh I am sure two people, probably Pam. I am
not doing this to make you feel bad. Please do
not feel bad. I do not want you next Saturday.
Not she has some things. Oh okay, I got you understand. Yes,
(16:40):
it's good, Yes those are Pam. Pam has things that
she needs to be there for. And I've known this
for weeks. So but when doing the schedule. It's like, Okay,
we're gonna have this people, this people. We can handle
all this with this staffload.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Now it's looking like it's a little fun. It's a
little tight, it's a little fun. Sent Troy home to
get some sleep and then bring them back.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
You know, it might be one of those days where, yeah,
we might have to employ some extra help, some uh
one day workers for the day just to go along
with our season staff to help with some of these items.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
But the timing still works out.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
And when I scheduled all these things, I made sure
that we weren't in two places at the exact same
time delivering.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
So this is five things, five five five events, quote unquote, Yeah,
is anything coming back from college? Well that's a good idea.
I should make that phone call. Are you Robinson retired?
Have they moved yet? They're still there? Yeah? So oh boy.
(17:59):
So yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
But aside from that, it was a great week. It
was actually sales wise was a little disappointing. Oh I
had sent you. I sent you a screenshot from one
of our lunches, uh.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Just getting hit after hit after hit. Hold then.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
Just to say I'm getting there. I gotta They changed
things in square again so or not again, but I
think we talked about that last week. They changed all
their menus and stuff.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
Again, I'm really struggling to find something invoice. I can
never find the invoices out there, and it's in the
same spot, but it's it's weird.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Because it's labeled payments and invoices. Yeah, it's such a
weird spot.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
All right, So I sent you we had, I mean,
it wasn't not a horrible week we did.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
You sent me the fifth the one thousand dollars free
food thing.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
Yeah, that was that was I mean, okay, okay, okay,
why can I find what I'm looking for here? Okay,
I'm gonna get it off my phone. See all in all,
I mean it was a sales wise, it was a
pretty good week. But we did, yeah, fifteen hundred for
lunch that day. So that that Rosa Parks. I mean, yeah,
(19:21):
it was pandemonium down there, absolutely pandemonium.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
I think everybody hit their thousand dollars. So the every
truck kind of did it a little bit differently on
how they wanted to do it. So the other top
tier food truck that was down there, Dune Buggy, it
was just a finals for best food truck in Michigan
off some some list anyways, So they were doing twenty
(19:51):
dollars off your order for the first fifty customers type
of thing. So the how they promoted it was a
free twenty dollars meal. So Chris said, there was only
one person that even tried to go above twenty dollars,
and it was the first person that walked up and
they ordered a rack of ribs. Chris says, I said
(20:13):
twenty seven dollars please, and the guy looked at Loot
confused and handed over twenty seven dollars.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
But rack of ribs is not a lunch. I don't
care who you are. So you didn't you didn't run
a tab or what we did for everything else.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
But so anybody that was clearly trying to take advantage
of we weren't anybody trying to order three pounds of
brisket or something like that. It was not gonna fly
the spirit of the day type of thing. And Chris said,
everybody was very good. They said, there was a couple
of people that were like twenty one dollars and really
because it was clearly they were buying two lunches for
(20:51):
them and for somebody else or something like that, Like
it was two sandwiches, two sides of two drinks, clearly
for two people. Like yeah, but yeah, I think they
were they were ready to open at eleven thirty.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
They had hit the thousand dollars by twelve fifteen.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
All and people people who were coming up asking if
we still had free food and we said no, they'd
walk off to another trailer. I mean, sure, yeah, people
are there for free lunch. They're going to look for
the ones that still have free lunch. So I mean,
especially when you have like there was a Empanada truck
(21:31):
and a taco truck, which for them to hit the
thousand is I mean, yeah, they're going to serve one
hundred people versus the fifty that we're going to get.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
So yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
So yeah, we did fifteen hundred that day for lunch
and we still didn't hit two thousand for the for
the day.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
It was like a three hundred dollars dinner. Wow.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
The next day was a thirteen hundred dollars lunch, four
hundred dollars dinner stick.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
Ah.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
Yeah, last week we're pretty so, I mean it is
what it is. We did have a happy surprise on
Friday for lunch. Typically not a strong lunch day for us,
the Friday of a holiday weekend, but we still ended
up doing a thousand dollars lunch that day. I have
(22:20):
no idea where we were for dinner though, Oh, Lincoln Pines,
so one of our more consistent subdivisions, and it was okay.
I think we did six or seven hundred. So yeah,
we were pretty much averaging like sixteen hundred dollars for
dinners or for the days.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
For the week.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
I think we did eleven thousand or something like that
for the week. Let me look, let me look real quick.
Week nineteen hundred. Oh that was yesterday. Run week, Yeah,
eleven thousand, eleven thousan thirty dollars. This is what we
(23:01):
did for the week.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
Bad.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
It's not bad, but when you look at those lunches,
it's like, all right, I had some two thousand dollars
days and.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Yeah, so our week was.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
Fourteen fifty, fourteen fifty, fifteen hundred, eighteen thirty nine, seventeen
sixty seven, and then twelve hundred on Saturday. Saturday was
a disappointing day at the campground. It's the first holiday
weekend we've done there and from what we've told, you know,
(23:36):
it's crazy crazy. It was chilly and it wasn't the
greatest temperature for Saturday, but it was beautiful, it was sunny,
it was gorgeous out.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
Yeah. Well and we did we fire and the sky
frontly came back. Yeah, we were We did a normal
Saturday there.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
It's no different than any of the Saturday we've ever
been out there, which is a nice, relaxed kind of Saturday.
And then yeah, Sunday, we did uh quick a couple
hours in Awego, and then went out to a new
location for us, Tip two, which is an offshoot of
Tip A few, which is a bar. So Tip two
(24:11):
is their outdoor patio. It's a whole different section. It's
not attached to that building, so they haven't they have
a bar there, but it's only outdoor seating, which means.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
That if the weather happens.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
Yeah, so if weather happens that day, or if there's
a threat of weather, they will cancel and not even
open that part. So there's always that risk flying it.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
So but yeah, we did. Yeah, we did nine almost
we did one thousand there. I mean over the course
of the four hour four and a half hours we
were there, they closed, They closed a half hour early.
They had live music from fourida or five to eight,
and then it died right after the music. It got
(24:56):
chilly in a hurry last night, so I get it.
We we were told from some other food trucks at
nine o'clock is the busy hour nine to ten. There's
a reason they want you guys there until ten. It's
because you're gonna get busy from nine to ten. And
I think that's an a normal summer night that's not
freezing cold. So they had let us know about eight
(25:16):
forty five, they said, yeah, we're probably gonna close it
up a little bit earlier tonight because after music stopped,
they went from one hundred and ten percent full to
twenty five percent full in about fifteen minutes.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
Oh, Pam's finally checking in to listen. Hi, Pam.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
You were mentioned earlier in the show. We love you
and I'm thinking of you, and I hope everything's going
on and don't feel.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Bad, feel bad. So yeah, we.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
Did nineteen hundred yesterday, which is okay, I mean from
a worldly week and we usually are downtown Towago for
the Fest of the Crabs and craft hustle and we
usually do twenty two to twenty four a day there.
So for the weekend, yeah, we were down a little bit,
but yeah, that is what it is. We are still
doing okay for the year. We're up six and a
(26:12):
half percent for the year. We are currently in our
busiest month ever. We're up twenty one percent over last night.
So we're at sixty three thousand for the month currently
with five days ago, four days ago, five days ago. Well,
all I hate you, and we're at one hundred and
(26:34):
twenty just under one hundred and twenty four thousand on
the year.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Yep, absolutely think you're piece of ship. That's okay. All right,
Karma Karma hits you right when it needs to. What
karma did you not just hear my half hour? I
know that was? That was karma.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
I'm not done yet either, by the way ahead.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
So we had a quality week. The food trailer did
go out for a little bit. Uh we did. We
did like a little music thing on a cold I
saw people in beanies and thermals. But definitely we're going
to watch the cover band. A lot of people had
(27:23):
never seen our truck. We actually had graphics on our truck.
We're not in a incognito food truck anymore. Gave a lot,
a lot of took an order. So we were probably
maybe ten miles from the restaurant, but we This lady's like, oh,
you don't have ribs on your truck. I'm like, no,
(27:43):
we were. The truck's kind of built for speed, so
ribbs are at our restaurant. I can I can call
you in order if you want me to. And she's like,
would you? So she came over here and got our
last rec of ribs that we had. We had a
balls to the wall day. We had our business day
(28:05):
of the year, like well, second business day of the
year on Friday. Late crowds coming back, which is good.
We did like almost thirty two hundred on Friday, so
we finished finished the weekend, or finished the week with
about a little less than eighty five hundred, and then
(28:30):
a lot of catering too. I was here yesterday on
a day off for catering. We are currently up eighty five.
Hold on, it's over prior month. How do I go
back this whole reports thing? Oh, that's that's how we're
going to do it. That's how we're.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Oh period this year, And I've had some people ask me,
what are you at this year right now? Total sales?
Excuse me, one hundred and twenty three eight? Still ahead
of you, some bitch. You're ahead of me on the
ear one thirty three too. Well, sorry, now that includes
(29:20):
tips and all that bullshit.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
I was like, holy cow, man, because I thought I
was ahead of you last week.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
Grow grow sales one forty nine dollars shy of one nineteen?
All right, good jat, So we got that. That includes tips,
you little bastard. But if we're gonna pull that number
and shut your mouth anyway, we I've had some people
(29:52):
actually reach out to me and ask one dred and
forty I was at one thirty three. But anyway, so
I've had some people ask, like, since you started the
restaurant at like the end of January, like, what what's
your totals? So as of right now we are up
(30:13):
beginning of January, we're up fifty two year for the
same time period. If I just go food Truck Day,
which I started like typically March first, we are up
thirty Do you haven't set up as two different locations
(30:37):
and square? No? Yes, yes, Mike, So you can pull
just food truck comparison from this year to last year. Definitely,
food truck is way lower. Yeah, but as far as
just I guess overall sales totals, we're up. It's basically
at twenty thousand dollars swing time time like time for time,
(31:00):
but so excellent. But we have a lot like June
is June is packed. I'm actually hiring another person, hiring
another person. They actually she actually used to work on
Gut Smoke Chad Nicole Funnels trailer. Okay, so she I
(31:24):
met her. She's really good. She loves her bait pens,
which is all good as long as she doesn't outside.
But other than that, she I don't have to worry
about canceling events because I don't have somebody to run
the shop, and I don't have somebody to run the trump,
So that way, I don't have to be worried about
when I have to bring a trailer somewhere just to
(31:45):
and then worry about how I'm gonna go pick it up,
and people just driving all over the place. So that
we're good. She actually she'll turn with me one day
and then she'll go to a grad party that we're
serving out of the truck the next day. Cool. Yeah, excellent.
Speaker 3 (32:07):
So in addition to my weekend forget, so we've been looking.
We knew we needed a new steam table because the thermostats
and ours are shot so they're just on all the time.
So with the way that we're doing our pans now,
especially mac and cheese, we can get a little burnt
edges on the pans and that stuff can end up
in somebody's order mac and cheese. I'm gonna guess that's
(32:28):
what happened on Sunday with that person that said the
mac and cheese was horrible, and I was just trying
to clarify, like but yeah, no response, But I'm going
to assume that that's what happened. So I went ahead and
started looking for steam tables and pulled the trigger on
a wet steam table, fully sealed, also electric, because I
don't want to rerun propane inside the trip. So it
(32:52):
comes and I thought I was doing my due diligence.
Looked at the plug because after the last heating cabinet
I got, they had a funky plug and I had
to redo the outlet.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
Whatever.
Speaker 3 (33:04):
So this thing comes on a pallette. First of all,
it's delivered whatever day it was. He drops it on
the palette. I said, just put it right in front
of that smoker, because that's still sitting in front of
my d garage. And on this box facing the road
is a bright yellow sticker that says high claim item
and has four dollars sights on it. Said, well, looks
(33:30):
like I'm opening this up and getting it in the
ground parage.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
Now what the fuck?
Speaker 3 (33:41):
So anyways, I unpacked this thing and this ginormous plug
falls out of it.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
Nope, it is.
Speaker 3 (33:51):
It is not a two twenty but it is a
thirty amp one twenty plug. This thing is like this, man,
like what the actual f so max amps on that
thing is seventeen? Why it has this freaking plug on it,
I don't know, but I have consulted my electrician professional
(34:15):
friends and father. So once we get the outlet off,
we'll look at the wire and to make sure that
that can handle that little which it should be able
to because it's all on twenty at breakers in there.
But the bigger issue is we're already pretty close to
capacity on that generator on that predator in ninety five, so.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
Buy a new generator. And so the grand just was
a dollar smoker wasn't enough.
Speaker 3 (34:51):
So the grand total on the steam table project thirteen grand.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
No, we should be about seven. You're going to you're
going to get a boy Diesel generator. It wouldn't be
a bad idea. No, we're gonna get ther. I'm gonna
go the high it's like ten grand.
Speaker 3 (35:11):
We're gonna do the Duromax. Uh even about twelve twelve.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
Or thirteen whatever it is, which gives you eleven thousand running?
What does it really? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (35:24):
Yeah, so for forty eight, that's three hundred and sixteen pounds, okay,
and I can handle it.
Speaker 1 (35:37):
Put on Caleb back and the lift. Yeah. So, uh,
the output on.
Speaker 3 (35:43):
The Predator is only seventy five hundred or eight thousand
wots or something like that. So this should get us
in the clear. We should be much better. That thing's
got to fifty plugs on it, does it really?
Speaker 1 (35:54):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (35:54):
It's got it's a nice it's a nice looking generator.
The reviews on it are really good. Yeah, forty.
Speaker 1 (36:03):
Comes with a four year warranty included. So except you
got to send it back to get a new one.
Speaker 3 (36:10):
I don't care because I'm not getting rid of the
predator because it still runs good. Yeah, we'll get we'll
put I'm gonna look to get a switch put on
the house so we can just plug it in. Because
when we lost power for the overnight, we were running
extension courts to the refrigerator and everything. But the one
thing we can't power or couldn't power because it's hardwired
(36:31):
as our furnace. So, uh, the blower on the furnace
was the only thing. Everything's gas in the house, so
we had a stove, we have city water, the furnace
is gas, so it's like I just couldn't get the
blower to come on.
Speaker 1 (36:45):
Sy is called a generator interlocking kit. If he didn't know, Yes,
we had one put on.
Speaker 3 (36:52):
So yeah, we'll uh we'll keep that one around as
a backup for the trailer and then uh yeah for
the house if we ever need it. So yeah, so yeah,
I'm sorry that.
Speaker 1 (37:04):
It is.
Speaker 3 (37:06):
Yeah, I'm just saying, yeah, let's hey, let's open a
brick and mortar.
Speaker 1 (37:12):
I'm gonna listens.
Speaker 3 (37:17):
But our new employee is doing well, Troy Alex. Alex
has picked up a couple of ships. She picked She
picked up a couple of ships last week. She worked
with me all night last night. Yeah, she is. When
(37:37):
she's in the window, the tip average is much higher,
of course, much higher, I think, I h I think
it's going to get to the point where Caleb and
Chris are going to request her to work with her.
(37:59):
The number she pulled did not start with a one
last night.
Speaker 1 (38:07):
I was happy to work, wasn't it. She was ecstatic
she made her monthly bills.
Speaker 3 (38:12):
And no, it did start with a one, but it
was a high one.
Speaker 1 (38:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (38:20):
I think I think she was about one to eighty
last night, Jesus, and I was like forty five in cash.
Speaker 1 (38:27):
It was a weird cash night. Have you heavy cash
tip night? I had, I had my food truck girl
work here. Why I took the food truck out and
she took a picture of like all the tips, and
she was on the here for like five hours, and
it was like somebody gave her. Somebody gave her like
eight bucks of the counter and then on the table
left another.
Speaker 3 (38:46):
Twenty like only cramp.
Speaker 1 (38:49):
And we've only had one one older couple. Uh we'll
call him elderly because he did have a walker not
want to leave a tip at the counter, but left
three bucks on the table. Okay, yeah, that was good.
So one of the one of the topics I wanted
(39:10):
to bring up yesterday or last week. Sorry, I was
like yesterday was unruly owners and I am not unruly. No,
you're not unsightly maybe, but not unruly. Definitely outsightly. So
(39:34):
over the when I signed on to do this, myself
and my landlord had two agreements verbal agreements. They were
not written, so that's probably my fault, but two verbal agreements.
Number one was one of one of his workers wanted
to work for me at nighttime after they closed it too,
(39:54):
and he said he would wouldn't make her work any
evenings if they decided to stay open mm hmm. And
number two was they weren't going to sell food after
two Well, we've only been in this relationship now for
call it five months, and those agreements have both been broken.
(40:17):
Both him and his wife decided they did not want
to work the night shift by themselves anymore, so they
then forced the three team leads to work, and they
forced her to work the two nights that she always
came and worked for me. So and the biggest thing
(40:43):
that I need in my professional life is communication. If
you don't if you need to do something, or if
you feel the need to change something, or just tell me,
give me a heads up. Like that's all I asked,
just give me a head because I walk over to
talk to one of the girls and I noticed I'm
(41:05):
selling a wrap at like four o'clock in the afternoon. Now,
I don't care if you want to sell food in
your establishment. You're established, you do what you want, right,
But I shouldn't have to find out from somebody else.
I should have to find out from you because you're
We've decided to do it. And the and the answer
(41:25):
I got was like a to me. I took it
as a slap in the face. I was told that
I don't think my two sandwich sales after two o'clock
are hurting your sales. And I think, I'm like, well,
obviously you missed the point of why I was saying that.
(41:46):
It has nothing to do with you selling food. It's
somebody with you was telling me what your plans are
your food. I mean, you don't compete with food. If
they want cold chicken wrap, they can get a blame
cold chicken rap. If they want me, they can come
to me. What I don't care. So that's that's number one.
(42:07):
We have sent somewhat talked it out, but I'm not
sure we'll ever be over that. Part Number two. Two
weeks ago, I was he contacted me and said, hey, uh,
do you mind if I worked the dining room out
for a couple hours for a celebration of life? Said, yeah,
that's okay. Sure, He's like, just so you know, I
(42:28):
gave him your like we're going to do a whole
bunch of food for him, but I gave him your
business card too, because he said he might want to
do something afterwards. So I sent I sent the guy
my uh. He emailed me and I sent him our
our list, and I said, do you want it for here?
While you guys are here? Do you want it to go?
And he's like, oh no, we definitely want it for here.
(42:49):
So he ended up ordering I don't know seven dollars
from me right once, once the cafe owner found out,
oh I was public enemy number one, I need to
know how much food you're serving, so I know how
many how much it feeds, how many people are gonna
feed with all this food? What are you gonna do this?
(43:11):
What are you gonna do that? Just I said fifty people,
so we get done with the whole thing, right, So
they made their chicken bacon rabs and some chicken salad
wraps and coffee water, lemonade, whatever, and I made, like
the guy wanted, like eight racks of ribs all cut
(43:31):
up in individual bones, some porks, some brisket, some mac
and cheese, and some cold slag, and I set up,
you know, a nice buffet for m Needless to say,
they had a lot of food left over and a
mine was gone. But anyway, yeah, so he uh so
I walk over there and I just was going to
(43:51):
ask him like how everything was going, and he's like
can I can? I ask how much you charged him?
And I'm like, I don't know. I'm in our bucks
on seven fifty something like that. All that two of
his employees were right there. It's like, oh, that's why
we didn't make any money today. That's why we didn't
make any money. And I'm like, hold on a second.
(44:12):
I said, what did you charge me? It's like like
seven hundred and I'm like, yeah, but we charged him
nine hundred last time. I'm like, you didn't have my
rent last time? Yeah, what is up?
Fantastic.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
These are the tales and ramblings of two men their
dream of running a successful food truck business in life.
We invite you along to join Josh and Skippy on
this journey. This is Monday morning, food truck woo m
(00:47):
Good morning, Skippy. Wake up, Joshua, I am wide awake
as always. To answer your question, No, it's not a
busier morning. I was just trying to get in my
trip to g f S before the show. Oh, since
we don't have the children currently. And yeah, just got
out there toil late.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Start because.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
I had some task paralysis. So I was trying to overcome.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
The task paralysis, which we happen. You didn't want to
do anything.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
You get overwhelmed by the list of things that need
to be done, so you choose to do nothing.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Oh okay, you know, so fighting that urge byproduct instead
of the urge to do nothing. Yeah. So we uh yeah,
this last seven days. Yeah, it's been good. I've been trying.
(01:48):
I been trying. It's been trying, okay. We I was
feeling pretty good.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
When we after we did the show. It's really good,
and then it's been downhill quickly.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Oh why why so?
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Why so?
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Like, don't leave our listeners hanging. I know we've got two.
Maybe there's two. Let's just jump right in. What Well,
we had a comment. We had a comment on our
weekly scheduled post. I don't know if you saw it
or not. No, I did not somebody that look right
now though, can if you want somebody that was looking
(02:26):
for to finally try in our truck. I had tried
it on Sunday.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
I think I want to say Sunday right, let's go
with Sunday at the food truck festival that we had. Yeah,
it was very disappointed.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Well, why why are four?
Speaker 3 (02:44):
The meat was good, the mac and cheese was horrible?
End of comment.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
I'm wondering if it's the same lady that gave me
the same exact comment.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
It was not a lady, But I responded to the comment.
I sent a personal message looking for more information, so
you know, we can correct what is clearly wrong with
this person's brain. Sure, and got zero responses.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
My people.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
You're one of my people also responded to his comment,
not in a negative way or defending us. Really, I'm
just saying that maybe a personal message would have been
a better format for the comment, versus on a boosted
public post, which is and I said, I'm fine with it.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Doesn't bother me at all. We have nothing to hide.
Did that person then respond to that comment, respond to
that comment, but none of the stuff that I did,
of course, So yeah, which is awesome. Nice. And then
we had a three star review on Tuesday. Oh okay, okay,
(04:00):
it's been a week. Was there some context or just
a three star review? There was some context.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
The long and short of it was, you know what, No,
I'm gonna read this one.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Please please do.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
So the backstory is he messaged me asking if we
were going to have online order it available for that
night because it wasn't active at four o'clock. For whatever
I had thought, I turned it on, it was not
turned on. I said, oh yeah, absolutely, let me go
ahead and take.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Care of that. So I got in and did it,
and so he places an order. All is good. I'd
see the order come through, and.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
We had forgotten to take wings off from Saturday when
we ran or Sunday had been ran it as a special,
and he had ordered some wings along with brisket and
mac and cheese. Okay, so I should have a message
said I'm sorry, we don't have wings today, Can I
get you something else? And I already I had already
(05:01):
done the refund, so it was already on its way.
So you guys still have rib tips somewhere and I said, yeah,
I'm pretty sure we do. Shouldn't be a problem. He said, okay,
I'll go ahead and place another order then for those
and just have it on with my other order.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
It's great, no problem. And then I.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Get first I got a Facebook message saying picture on
the website shows slice brisket, but clearly this is not
Slice brisket twenty seven dollars for chopped brisket, which I
did not respond to. And maybe I should have and
I wouldn't have gotten a three star review. I don't know,
(05:36):
but I was busy. I was doing things. My picture
online does not show you it's either Mine is a
competition box.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
So if that's what you're expecting, again, that's what you're expecting.
I am so very sorry. But anyways, I think you
find a competition local. You might be able to pick
some up up the street somewhere.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
All right, here is the review. I was going to
reserve my opinion until I had the chance to try
them fresh In quotation marks. Well, it was the third
time eating from this truck. All barbecue comes down to
timing of when you eat it. I can't seem to
eat here, eat there when they've cooked something fresh. The
(06:22):
mac and cheese was very good, Thank you. Apparently we've
fixed our Sunday problem.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Okay, little victories, Little victories.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Brisket was very dry, but that happens when it shredded
to pieces. A little disappointing when you order a pound
of a pound of what looks like slice brisket and
get left over chopped sandwich brisket.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
For twenty seven dollars.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Oh, and then he'd put pictures of the menu picture
and what he got and the picture he posted.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
I mean maybe, but it does not look dry. Whatever.
So josh wa, you can't please everybody. Nope, nope. And
I also commented on him, and I didn't that good
response back. Did did you get did he say anything
(07:21):
about the room tips no yah, or the missing wings
or so that that drops us down to wow, what
was that? That was a semi? I thought it was
a plane. Yeah, that was an engine breaking semi going
down our road, probably way too fast. I thought that
(07:44):
was a bomb.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Yeah, So that drops us our Google review down to
a four point eight from a four point nine. Well, remember,
soon we won't be we won't be readed any higher
than hot.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Now there's a place for everybody. But there's a place
since since I last week we talked about how you
uh inadvertently through your stats in my face as I
was asking you about something. I will then go ahead,
and I'm not done with my week yet. Oh we've
(08:27):
only made it to Tuesday. Can we have a squirrel moment?
Real quick, squirrel? Go ahead, all right, squirrel moment? Squirrel?
You were talking about reviews this this Saturday, even Saturday.
One day, we received three five star Google reviews, all
(08:47):
with awesome stuff, and we are still currently listed on
Google as a stratulations good jad buddy forty reviews, forty
reviews we only have thirty three? Yeah, but I asked
for him, you don't I love reviews? But oh we
(09:10):
have some. We have some comments coming in from the youtubes.
Where's Jason or Justin or Steve? Oh this is the
guy that reviewed me. I'm kidding, your brisket sucked.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
Let's see Andrew, oh debt the bill? I yeah, this
is a first time, longtime listener, first time caller, probably,
They said, we had plenty of issues with our online
ordering on Thursday. For three years we've turned off online
ordering for the Farmer's Market, too busy to have on
(09:45):
and when we moved to our roadside location for dinner
Thursday night, we turned it back. On the past Thursday,
we had five people placing their online orders for pickup
at dinner but called and wanted to pick it up
at the Farmer's Market. Ah Andrews, the owner of the
mobile Crave. Oh okay, Andrew, Hello Andrew. So yeah, I
(10:09):
love online ordering and I hate online ordering. Our online
ordering woes have gotten much better once we have implemented
the whole inventory thing much better. That helps so much.
So yeah, we yeah, it makes it a lot easier.
So Wednesday, good lord man, it was a week. I'm
(10:37):
going to vent a little bit, but not not details.
All week long, there was a whole lot of complaints
from my staff about my staff.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
From your staff.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Yes, boy, there it's been a long year and I
think it's yep, ten weeks in. But when you look
at the last few that we've had and it's been busy,
it's been a little trying it's been some stress, new processes,
new dishes to.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Wash, a lot going on this year in me not
being on.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
The truck hardly at all. Doesn't that help? So I
received a flurry of text messages in regards to how
the trailer looked, how it was left from the night before.
Other staff not happy with them, being prodded for information
(11:39):
from the other two staff members about these other staff members,
about what they're doing when they're there.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Oh boy, have a little team meeting.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
General grumpiness being reported towards us a a particular staff member.
So that was Wednesday morning to afternoon on what was
my first day that I was trying to step away
from the truck for a day after working that whole
(12:14):
weekend and then having to do Monday stuff and then
work the truck Tuesday. I was trying to take Wednesday
and Thursday away.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Nope.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
And then Wednesday night I get a message from Felicia
saying that she has a doctor's appointment on Friday that
she's rescheduled a few times because.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Of she was doctor's appointment. She forgot job interview. Is
what this was?
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Oh that she couldn't It was a it was a
surgery like a yeah, whatever, a pre surgery appointment that
she's rescheduled a bunch of times, and they told her
if she was going to reschedule it again that she was,
they were going to drop her from the calendar and
she would thought she'd have this Friday at that Friday
off because it was her every other weekend. First of all,
(13:03):
she has asked for one thousand fridays, so for me
to keep track of which weekend is her every other weekend?
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Put him in the calendar. Did you ask you a question?
Do you sure? Do you use the square team? App? Yep?
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Okay, all right, good, yep? So they put all their
days off the requests in there. She so she has
her kids every other weekend, so I didn't have her
put every other weekend in it because I didn't want
to reprove four thousand requests and I would just But
then she started asking for weekend days off that she
was supposed to be working, so things got jumbled up.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Sure, and she told me if we needed her for
a particular weekend, it wasn't a big deal whatever. I said, fine,
don't worry about it. I got you covered.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
And in that same message, she finally let me know
that she was looking for another job, okay, but that
she she would make sure that she gave us notice
and we weren't going to be left high and dry.
I said, okay, just so you know, I am going
to start looking for your replacement and training them.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Okay both Leason, Yeah, I'm sorry. Okay, So is that
Thursday and Friday or was that just Thursday? This is
a Wednesday? Oh that's Wednesday? Still okay? Yeah? So yeah,
I ended up having to pick up her shift on Friday,
(14:24):
a whole lot of job interview. She couldn't work a
different shift, so yep. And then I hear from her
Saturday night, Oh, I found a suitable employer. I'm leaving
you and drive yep, seriously yep. But there's more. Oh Dirty,
(14:51):
I'd be.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Willing to stay with you if you can give me
a bump to fifteen dollars. And you said, Las, that
is not happening. But I'm assuming that you're going to
finish out your two scheduled shifts.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
That's all. She has two shifts this week, just like Nope,
they want me to start on Monday. Oh, it's okay.
Did you happen to highlight doc where she said, I
won't leave you high and dry. Nope. I have not
responded after I said bye, I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
So it looks like I am working pretty much all
week this week on the truck. But not only that,
we got more. This is where there is more.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
This is where my task paralysis kind of set in
this morning. This is good, This is good. I haven't
heard any of this. I'm i'm i'm eating the popcorn, or.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
As i'm as I'm working to get next week's schedules.
The next schedule STUF, which is the first week of June,
which goes through the seventh. On the seventh of June,
we have the Caledonia Farmer's Market in the morning. We
have an apartment complex pool party that we're catering for.
We have a graduation open house. We have two weddings.
(16:20):
Oh I am sure two people, probably Pam. I am
not doing this to make you feel bad. Please do
not feel bad. I do not want you next Saturday.
Not she has some things. Oh okay, I got you understand. Yes,
(16:40):
it's good, Yes those are Pam. Pam has things that
she needs to be there for. And I've known this
for weeks. So but when doing the schedule. It's like, Okay,
we're gonna have this people, this people. We can handle
all this with this staffload.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Now it's looking like it's a little fun. It's a
little tight, it's a little fun. Sent Troy home to
get some sleep and then bring them back.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
You know, it might be one of those days where, yeah,
we might have to employ some extra help, some uh
one day workers for the day just to go along
with our season staff to help with some of these items.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
But the timing still works out.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
And when I scheduled all these things, I made sure
that we weren't in two places at the exact same
time delivering.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
So this is five things, five five five events, quote unquote, Yeah,
is anything coming back from college? Well that's a good idea.
I should make that phone call. Are you Robinson retired?
Have they moved yet? They're still there? Yeah? So oh boy.
(17:59):
So yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
But aside from that, it was a great week. It
was actually sales wise was a little disappointing. Oh I
had sent you. I sent you a screenshot from one
of our lunches, uh.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Just getting hit after hit after hit. Hold then.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
Just to say I'm getting there. I gotta They changed
things in square again so or not again, but I
think we talked about that last week. They changed all
their menus and stuff.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
Again, I'm really struggling to find something invoice. I can
never find the invoices out there, and it's in the
same spot, but it's it's weird.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Because it's labeled payments and invoices. Yeah, it's such a
weird spot.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
All right, So I sent you we had, I mean,
it wasn't not a horrible week we did.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
You sent me the fifth the one thousand dollars free
food thing.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
Yeah, that was that was I mean, okay, okay, okay,
why can I find what I'm looking for here? Okay,
I'm gonna get it off my phone. See all in all,
I mean it was a sales wise, it was a
pretty good week. But we did, yeah, fifteen hundred for
lunch that day. So that that Rosa Parks. I mean, yeah,
(19:21):
it was pandemonium down there, absolutely pandemonium.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
I think everybody hit their thousand dollars. So the every
truck kind of did it a little bit differently on
how they wanted to do it. So the other top
tier food truck that was down there, Dune Buggy, it
was just a finals for best food truck in Michigan
off some some list anyways, So they were doing twenty
(19:51):
dollars off your order for the first fifty customers type
of thing. So the how they promoted it was a
free twenty dollars meal. So Chris said, there was only
one person that even tried to go above twenty dollars,
and it was the first person that walked up and
they ordered a rack of ribs. Chris says, I said
(20:13):
twenty seven dollars please, and the guy looked at Loot
confused and handed over twenty seven dollars.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
But rack of ribs is not a lunch. I don't
care who you are. So you didn't you didn't run
a tab or what we did for everything else.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
But so anybody that was clearly trying to take advantage
of we weren't anybody trying to order three pounds of
brisket or something like that. It was not gonna fly
the spirit of the day type of thing. And Chris said,
everybody was very good. They said, there was a couple
of people that were like twenty one dollars and really
because it was clearly they were buying two lunches for
(20:51):
them and for somebody else or something like that, Like
it was two sandwiches, two sides of two drinks, clearly
for two people. Like yeah, but yeah, I think they
were they were ready to open at eleven thirty.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
They had hit the thousand dollars by twelve fifteen.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
All and people people who were coming up asking if
we still had free food and we said no, they'd
walk off to another trailer. I mean, sure, yeah, people
are there for free lunch. They're going to look for
the ones that still have free lunch. So I mean,
especially when you have like there was a Empanada truck
(21:31):
and a taco truck, which for them to hit the
thousand is I mean, yeah, they're going to serve one
hundred people versus the fifty that we're going to get.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
So yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
So yeah, we did fifteen hundred that day for lunch
and we still didn't hit two thousand for the for
the day.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
It was like a three hundred dollars dinner. Wow.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
The next day was a thirteen hundred dollars lunch, four
hundred dollars dinner stick.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
Ah.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
Yeah, last week we're pretty so, I mean it is
what it is. We did have a happy surprise on
Friday for lunch. Typically not a strong lunch day for us,
the Friday of a holiday weekend, but we still ended
up doing a thousand dollars lunch that day. I have
(22:20):
no idea where we were for dinner though, Oh, Lincoln Pines,
so one of our more consistent subdivisions, and it was okay.
I think we did six or seven hundred. So yeah,
we were pretty much averaging like sixteen hundred dollars for
dinners or for the days.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
For the week.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
I think we did eleven thousand or something like that
for the week. Let me look, let me look real quick.
Week nineteen hundred. Oh that was yesterday. Run week, Yeah,
eleven thousand, eleven thousan thirty dollars. This is what we
(23:01):
did for the week.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
Bad.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
It's not bad, but when you look at those lunches,
it's like, all right, I had some two thousand dollars
days and.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Yeah, so our week was.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
Fourteen fifty, fourteen fifty, fifteen hundred, eighteen thirty nine, seventeen
sixty seven, and then twelve hundred on Saturday. Saturday was
a disappointing day at the campground. It's the first holiday
weekend we've done there and from what we've told, you know,
(23:36):
it's crazy crazy. It was chilly and it wasn't the
greatest temperature for Saturday, but it was beautiful, it was sunny,
it was gorgeous out.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
Yeah. Well and we did we fire and the sky
frontly came back. Yeah, we were We did a normal
Saturday there.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
It's no different than any of the Saturday we've ever
been out there, which is a nice, relaxed kind of Saturday.
And then yeah, Sunday, we did uh quick a couple
hours in Awego, and then went out to a new
location for us, Tip two, which is an offshoot of
Tip A few, which is a bar. So Tip two
(24:11):
is their outdoor patio. It's a whole different section. It's
not attached to that building, so they haven't they have
a bar there, but it's only outdoor seating, which means.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
That if the weather happens.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
Yeah, so if weather happens that day, or if there's
a threat of weather, they will cancel and not even
open that part. So there's always that risk flying it.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
So but yeah, we did. Yeah, we did nine almost
we did one thousand there. I mean over the course
of the four hour four and a half hours we
were there, they closed, They closed a half hour early.
They had live music from fourida or five to eight,
and then it died right after the music. It got
(24:56):
chilly in a hurry last night, so I get it.
We we were told from some other food trucks at
nine o'clock is the busy hour nine to ten. There's
a reason they want you guys there until ten. It's
because you're gonna get busy from nine to ten. And
I think that's an a normal summer night that's not
freezing cold. So they had let us know about eight
(25:16):
forty five, they said, yeah, we're probably gonna close it
up a little bit earlier tonight because after music stopped,
they went from one hundred and ten percent full to
twenty five percent full in about fifteen minutes.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
Oh, Pam's finally checking in to listen. Hi, Pam.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
You were mentioned earlier in the show. We love you
and I'm thinking of you, and I hope everything's going
on and don't feel.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Bad, feel bad. So yeah, we.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
Did nineteen hundred yesterday, which is okay, I mean from
a worldly week and we usually are downtown Towago for
the Fest of the Crabs and craft hustle and we
usually do twenty two to twenty four a day there.
So for the weekend, yeah, we were down a little bit,
but yeah, that is what it is. We are still
doing okay for the year. We're up six and a
(26:12):
half percent for the year. We are currently in our
busiest month ever. We're up twenty one percent over last night.
So we're at sixty three thousand for the month currently
with five days ago, four days ago, five days ago. Well,
all I hate you, and we're at one hundred and
(26:34):
twenty just under one hundred and twenty four thousand on
the year.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Yep, absolutely think you're piece of ship. That's okay. All right,
Karma Karma hits you right when it needs to. What
karma did you not just hear my half hour? I
know that was? That was karma.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
I'm not done yet either, by the way ahead.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
So we had a quality week. The food trailer did
go out for a little bit. Uh we did. We
did like a little music thing on a cold I
saw people in beanies and thermals. But definitely we're going
to watch the cover band. A lot of people had
(27:23):
never seen our truck. We actually had graphics on our truck.
We're not in a incognito food truck anymore. Gave a lot,
a lot of took an order. So we were probably
maybe ten miles from the restaurant, but we This lady's like, oh,
you don't have ribs on your truck. I'm like, no,
(27:43):
we were. The truck's kind of built for speed, so
ribbs are at our restaurant. I can I can call
you in order if you want me to. And she's like,
would you? So she came over here and got our
last rec of ribs that we had. We had a
balls to the wall day. We had our business day
(28:05):
of the year, like well, second business day of the
year on Friday. Late crowds coming back, which is good.
We did like almost thirty two hundred on Friday, so
we finished finished the weekend, or finished the week with
about a little less than eighty five hundred, and then
(28:30):
a lot of catering too. I was here yesterday on
a day off for catering. We are currently up eighty five.
Hold on, it's over prior month. How do I go
back this whole reports thing? Oh, that's that's how we're
going to do it. That's how we're.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Oh period this year, And I've had some people ask me,
what are you at this year right now? Total sales?
Excuse me, one hundred and twenty three eight? Still ahead
of you, some bitch. You're ahead of me on the
ear one thirty three too. Well, sorry, now that includes
(29:20):
tips and all that bullshit.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
I was like, holy cow, man, because I thought I
was ahead of you last week.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
Grow grow sales one forty nine dollars shy of one nineteen?
All right, good jat, So we got that. That includes tips,
you little bastard. But if we're gonna pull that number
and shut your mouth anyway, we I've had some people
(29:52):
actually reach out to me and ask one dred and
forty I was at one thirty three. But anyway, so
I've had some people ask, like, since you started the
restaurant at like the end of January, like, what what's
your totals? So as of right now we are up
(30:13):
beginning of January, we're up fifty two year for the
same time period. If I just go food Truck Day,
which I started like typically March first, we are up
thirty Do you haven't set up as two different locations
(30:37):
and square? No? Yes, yes, Mike, So you can pull
just food truck comparison from this year to last year. Definitely,
food truck is way lower. Yeah, but as far as
just I guess overall sales totals, we're up. It's basically
at twenty thousand dollars swing time time like time for time,
(31:00):
but so excellent. But we have a lot like June
is June is packed. I'm actually hiring another person, hiring
another person. They actually she actually used to work on
Gut Smoke Chad Nicole Funnels trailer. Okay, so she I
(31:24):
met her. She's really good. She loves her bait pens,
which is all good as long as she doesn't outside.
But other than that, she I don't have to worry
about canceling events because I don't have somebody to run
the shop, and I don't have somebody to run the trump,
So that way, I don't have to be worried about
when I have to bring a trailer somewhere just to
(31:45):
and then worry about how I'm gonna go pick it up,
and people just driving all over the place. So that
we're good. She actually she'll turn with me one day
and then she'll go to a grad party that we're
serving out of the truck the next day. Cool. Yeah, excellent.
Speaker 3 (32:07):
So in addition to my weekend forget, so we've been looking.
We knew we needed a new steam table because the thermostats
and ours are shot so they're just on all the time.
So with the way that we're doing our pans now,
especially mac and cheese, we can get a little burnt
edges on the pans and that stuff can end up
in somebody's order mac and cheese. I'm gonna guess that's
(32:28):
what happened on Sunday with that person that said the
mac and cheese was horrible, and I was just trying
to clarify, like but yeah, no response, But I'm going
to assume that that's what happened. So I went ahead and
started looking for steam tables and pulled the trigger on
a wet steam table, fully sealed, also electric, because I
don't want to rerun propane inside the trip. So it
(32:52):
comes and I thought I was doing my due diligence.
Looked at the plug because after the last heating cabinet
I got, they had a funky plug and I had
to redo the outlet.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
Whatever.
Speaker 3 (33:04):
So this thing comes on a pallette. First of all,
it's delivered whatever day it was. He drops it on
the palette. I said, just put it right in front
of that smoker, because that's still sitting in front of
my d garage. And on this box facing the road
is a bright yellow sticker that says high claim item
and has four dollars sights on it. Said, well, looks
(33:30):
like I'm opening this up and getting it in the
ground parage.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
Now what the fuck?
Speaker 3 (33:41):
So anyways, I unpacked this thing and this ginormous plug
falls out of it.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
Nope, it is.
Speaker 3 (33:51):
It is not a two twenty but it is a
thirty amp one twenty plug. This thing is like this, man,
like what the actual f so max amps on that
thing is seventeen? Why it has this freaking plug on it,
I don't know, but I have consulted my electrician professional
(34:15):
friends and father. So once we get the outlet off,
we'll look at the wire and to make sure that
that can handle that little which it should be able
to because it's all on twenty at breakers in there.
But the bigger issue is we're already pretty close to
capacity on that generator on that predator in ninety five, so.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
Buy a new generator. And so the grand just was
a dollar smoker wasn't enough.
Speaker 3 (34:51):
So the grand total on the steam table project thirteen grand.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
No, we should be about seven. You're going to you're
going to get a boy Diesel generator. It wouldn't be
a bad idea. No, we're gonna get ther. I'm gonna
go the high it's like ten grand.
Speaker 3 (35:11):
We're gonna do the Duromax. Uh even about twelve twelve.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
Or thirteen whatever it is, which gives you eleven thousand running?
What does it really? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (35:24):
Yeah, so for forty eight, that's three hundred and sixteen pounds, okay,
and I can handle it.
Speaker 1 (35:37):
Put on Caleb back and the lift. Yeah. So, uh,
the output on.
Speaker 3 (35:43):
The Predator is only seventy five hundred or eight thousand
wots or something like that. So this should get us
in the clear. We should be much better. That thing's
got to fifty plugs on it, does it really?
Speaker 1 (35:54):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (35:54):
It's got it's a nice it's a nice looking generator.
The reviews on it are really good. Yeah, forty.
Speaker 1 (36:03):
Comes with a four year warranty included. So except you
got to send it back to get a new one.
Speaker 3 (36:10):
I don't care because I'm not getting rid of the
predator because it still runs good. Yeah, we'll get we'll
put I'm gonna look to get a switch put on
the house so we can just plug it in. Because
when we lost power for the overnight, we were running
extension courts to the refrigerator and everything. But the one
thing we can't power or couldn't power because it's hardwired
(36:31):
as our furnace. So, uh, the blower on the furnace
was the only thing. Everything's gas in the house, so
we had a stove, we have city water, the furnace
is gas, so it's like I just couldn't get the
blower to come on.
Speaker 1 (36:45):
Sy is called a generator interlocking kit. If he didn't know, Yes,
we had one put on.
Speaker 3 (36:52):
So yeah, we'll uh we'll keep that one around as
a backup for the trailer and then uh yeah for
the house if we ever need it. So yeah, so yeah,
I'm sorry that.
Speaker 1 (37:04):
It is.
Speaker 3 (37:06):
Yeah, I'm just saying, yeah, let's hey, let's open a
brick and mortar.
Speaker 1 (37:12):
I'm gonna listens.
Speaker 3 (37:17):
But our new employee is doing well, Troy Alex. Alex
has picked up a couple of ships. She picked She
picked up a couple of ships last week. She worked
with me all night last night. Yeah, she is. When
(37:37):
she's in the window, the tip average is much higher,
of course, much higher, I think, I h I think
it's going to get to the point where Caleb and
Chris are going to request her to work with her.
(37:59):
The number she pulled did not start with a one
last night.
Speaker 1 (38:07):
I was happy to work, wasn't it. She was ecstatic
she made her monthly bills.
Speaker 3 (38:12):
And no, it did start with a one, but it
was a high one.
Speaker 1 (38:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (38:20):
I think I think she was about one to eighty
last night, Jesus, and I was like forty five in cash.
Speaker 1 (38:27):
It was a weird cash night. Have you heavy cash
tip night? I had, I had my food truck girl
work here. Why I took the food truck out and
she took a picture of like all the tips, and
she was on the here for like five hours, and
it was like somebody gave her. Somebody gave her like
eight bucks of the counter and then on the table
left another.
Speaker 3 (38:46):
Twenty like only cramp.
Speaker 1 (38:49):
And we've only had one one older couple. Uh we'll
call him elderly because he did have a walker not
want to leave a tip at the counter, but left
three bucks on the table. Okay, yeah, that was good.
So one of the one of the topics I wanted
(39:10):
to bring up yesterday or last week. Sorry, I was
like yesterday was unruly owners and I am not unruly. No,
you're not unsightly maybe, but not unruly. Definitely outsightly. So
(39:34):
over the when I signed on to do this, myself
and my landlord had two agreements verbal agreements. They were
not written, so that's probably my fault, but two verbal agreements.
Number one was one of one of his workers wanted
to work for me at nighttime after they closed it too,
(39:54):
and he said he would wouldn't make her work any
evenings if they decided to stay open mm hmm. And
number two was they weren't going to sell food after
two Well, we've only been in this relationship now for
call it five months, and those agreements have both been broken.
(40:17):
Both him and his wife decided they did not want
to work the night shift by themselves anymore, so they
then forced the three team leads to work, and they
forced her to work the two nights that she always
came and worked for me. So and the biggest thing
(40:43):
that I need in my professional life is communication. If
you don't if you need to do something, or if
you feel the need to change something, or just tell me,
give me a heads up. Like that's all I asked,
just give me a head because I walk over to
talk to one of the girls and I noticed I'm
(41:05):
selling a wrap at like four o'clock in the afternoon. Now,
I don't care if you want to sell food in
your establishment. You're established, you do what you want, right,
But I shouldn't have to find out from somebody else.
I should have to find out from you because you're
We've decided to do it. And the and the answer
(41:25):
I got was like a to me. I took it
as a slap in the face. I was told that
I don't think my two sandwich sales after two o'clock
are hurting your sales. And I think, I'm like, well,
obviously you missed the point of why I was saying that.
(41:46):
It has nothing to do with you selling food. It's
somebody with you was telling me what your plans are
your food. I mean, you don't compete with food. If
they want cold chicken wrap, they can get a blame
cold chicken rap. If they want me, they can come
to me. What I don't care. So that's that's number one.
(42:07):
We have sent somewhat talked it out, but I'm not
sure we'll ever be over that. Part Number two. Two
weeks ago, I was he contacted me and said, hey, uh,
do you mind if I worked the dining room out
for a couple hours for a celebration of life? Said, yeah,
that's okay. Sure, He's like, just so you know, I
(42:28):
gave him your like we're going to do a whole
bunch of food for him, but I gave him your
business card too, because he said he might want to
do something afterwards. So I sent I sent the guy
my uh. He emailed me and I sent him our
our list, and I said, do you want it for here?
While you guys are here? Do you want it to go?
And he's like, oh no, we definitely want it for here.
(42:49):
So he ended up ordering I don't know seven dollars
from me right once, once the cafe owner found out,
oh I was public enemy number one, I need to
know how much food you're serving, so I know how
many how much it feeds, how many people are gonna
feed with all this food? What are you gonna do this?
(43:11):
What are you gonna do that? Just I said fifty people,
so we get done with the whole thing, right, So
they made their chicken bacon rabs and some chicken salad
wraps and coffee water, lemonade, whatever, and I made, like
the guy wanted, like eight racks of ribs all cut
(43:31):
up in individual bones, some porks, some brisket, some mac
and cheese, and some cold slag, and I set up,
you know, a nice buffet for m Needless to say,
they had a lot of food left over and a
mine was gone. But anyway, yeah, so he uh so
I walk over there and I just was going to
(43:51):
ask him like how everything was going, and he's like
can I can? I ask how much you charged him?
And I'm like, I don't know. I'm in our bucks
on seven fifty something like that. All that two of
his employees were right there. It's like, oh, that's why
we didn't make any money today. That's why we didn't
make any money. And I'm like, hold on a second.
(44:12):
I said, what did you charge me? It's like like
seven hundred and I'm like, yeah, but we charged him
nine hundred last time. I'm like, you didn't have my
rent last time? Yeah, what is up?
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