June 28, 2025 • 37 mins
The temps are really on the rise....are the sales rising too or is it just too hot?
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
These are the tails 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. These are the.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
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Speaker 3 (00:47):
Skippy exactly. That's my answer, that's my answers for dog barking.
Oh there you yeah, I'm good.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Good morning. I hope you are well as well as
can be expected, so very well. Good close to retirement.
Looks like all of our zeros of listeners. There is Steve.
Good morning. Steve is also doing well. I am assuming Steve.
How you doing today?
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Steve is probably doing better than both of us. Nine.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
No, I'm doing great, fantastic. Look look at all this
nice color I have?
Speaker 3 (01:32):
There is color there?
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Yeah, that's from sitting in a parking lot for seventeen
hours on Saturday, not seventeen close. So I got there
at seven and we left it was only fifteen hours
left at ten.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Did you make money?
Speaker 2 (01:55):
No?
Speaker 3 (01:58):
No, I guess we'll talk about that too.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Lowest attendance they've had since they started.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
It is it because it was the gates.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
I'm gonna guess I'm gonna guess that's part of the reason.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
So, uh, Alaska looks really good, right, Good morning, Andrew h.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
I actually have a blanket on my lap right now
because I'm a little chilly in my office.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
I'm sitting here in my kitchen and so seventy five degrees.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
That's sixty sixty nine in my in my house. But
the event is right.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Sons like pebbles or want to go outside and play.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Birds?
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Oh damn birds.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
We have lots of birds. We love our birds. Good
morning friend, Good morning everybody there over birds listeners we
are We love our birds. We feed them. We uh yeah,
we love our birds. Call them George if we could
catch them. For those that don't listen live. Sorry about
(03:11):
the delay in last week's podcast. I don't know what happened,
so but it's up and I will try to get
today's up in active today.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
So you can binge too. And one god that's right.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Yeah, Good morning, Pam, welcome back listening and watching for
a little bit this morning. Part Yeah. So everybody had
solid weeks last week. It sounds like you another booming
(03:42):
week for you, selling out left and right. I only
stold out on on Sunday. You know doing awesome things
have the advantage of indoor seating with air conditioning for
your people.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Oh, don't get me started on that. You said we
gotta cut it short today. I don't. I don't know
if I haven't time to cut it short.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Well, let's see, we're gonna we got about till ten
fifteen today. Guys. We got some stuff to take care of.
I have some stuff to take care of, suff Why
don't we hop right into it. Then I'll start that way.
You can have the floor for the rest of the day.
Excuse me, sorry, sorry, Let me get I got I
gotta move some tabs around here. I have to be
careful though, because it changes the YouTube stream when I
(04:30):
do this too much, so and I want I don't
want that to happen. People start yelling at me. All right.
Second to last week at June, we it was I
had an appointment with a cardiologist, just a yearly check up. Yeap,
everything's perfect. Probably the lowest my blood pressure has been
(04:51):
ever at a doctor's office, So that's arasy. It was.
It was a little alarming, but all my armories sound good.
Skippy is going to hang himself now, see into the darkness.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
He goes.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
He will once again emerge with a knife.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
I had my, my, my, He's got to take his
his his heart, medicine, healthy heart, all right. So yeah,
that that was That was the highlight of the work week.
I think, oh it was a let's just say lack
(05:36):
luster would be a good word. We were due. We
were due for one of these weeks. I think, yeah,
it's Tuesday. Tuesday was okay. It was a normal spot
for the Great Lakes Insurance and then trail Point pretty
average on both of those fronts. Did a solid eleven
(05:57):
or I think eleven hundred for lunch and then seven
eight for dinner. It was starting to them, yeah, yeah,
we Yeah, lunches have really been holding down the fort
and then we've been getting I mean, the bar scene
is starting to come around for us now that it's
warming up and all these patios are starting to come around.
(06:18):
Wednesday was the rainy day that we had. Yeah it was,
and we had been had a circle since Sunday that
you know it's gonna be hit and miss. It was
a forty chance of rain all day. It definitely showed
at lunch. I think we did four hundred for lunch,
our dinner service is was that tip too in Grand Haven,
(06:43):
which is an outdoor only space, so it's only patio.
They have taps there. It's an offshoot of a bar
that's just around the corner, so this is their outdoor
space that they do. If it rains, they close it
down obviously because there's not gonna be anybody there. So
we had we had been in conversations all day that day,
kind of keeping an eye on forecast and radars and stuff.
(07:05):
It stated about a fifty percent chance of rain. I
said we were because we already had food obviously is made,
so I said we were good to try, and they
were on board with that. I think we were there
for an hour before there was lightning in the area
and they shut it down. Yes, I think we did
six hundred the whole day that day, yep, which, oddly enough,
(07:32):
June eighteenth of last year was a super slow day
for us, Like we alalys missed last year's sales by
like one hundred and fifty dollars for the same date,
oddly enough, so something about June eighteenth, I'll to keep
that for next year. But yeah, Thursday, we had catering,
which is always nice to kind of bounce back from
a crap day with some guaranteed money. Friday Kent County,
(07:58):
Kent County Jail and River Park. We've never been to
the jail on a Friday. Probably won't schedule that next
year again that way, especially during the summer. I don't know.
I don't know if it was there or just the day,
but it had started to get hot at that point,
so I don't know if that had some effect. But
(08:20):
our neighborhood that night was super slow too, So yeah,
just not another it was I think we did between
the two road sidewise, I think we did. We're like
thirteen hundred for the day. We had an open house
which was another thirteen So all in all a fine day,
but kind of kind of sad to have some real
(08:41):
slow roadside days in the same week. Saturday, Saturday Saturday
we had the Grand Rapids Pride Festival, which should be
a huge day. We were we were shooting for five
to six that's what we kind of prepared food for
five to six thousand, and had it been a normal year,
(09:04):
I think we would have been sold out by seven
eight o'clock. So it was very slow, and we still
did twenty six hundred. I think it was what twenty
five hundred, So yeah, people the spot we were at,
the shade was kind of circulating around depending on where
the sun was sitting buildings and stuff. You could definitely
(09:25):
see people congregating at trucks that had shade at them.
So unfortunately we didn't have much shade most of the
day where we were located. So yeah, I blame the heat,
but it was a it was a long, a long
day with some equipment malfunctions. Our new generator at ninety
(09:50):
eight hours shut off. It would start up and shut
right back off, start up, shut right back off, could
not get it running again. We thought maybe it was overheating.
We had fans blowing on it from some other trucks
trying to get it to cool off. It got to
(10:11):
that we could we could touch the engine, and we
still couldn't get to say started. So Chris Chris and
his friend Bo were running a catering for us on
in the southern part of Michigan, so they stopped by
the house on their way back through, grab the predator,
drop that off so we could get at least get
(10:31):
dishes going again, because yeah, we were three and a
half hours without a generator still serving a steam table
will stay hot. Yeah, yeah, all the hot food was hot.
There was no worries about that. We were keeping an eye,
keeping an eye on the little boy, making sure everything
was good, that we were within ranges that were safe
(10:54):
to serve. But we were close. I mean, Caleb and
I have multiple conversations about, you know, shutting it down,
but I mean so we I mean, yeah, we served
as long as we could. It was hot, it was
miserable during that few hours. But yeah, I mean Chris,
Chris and Bow got down there I think just after
(11:15):
eight o'clock with the other generator so it could at
least get things fired up and get dishes done. I
didn't get home till eleven thirty. So if we wouldn't
have had that the other generator show up, like, I
would have been up until three o'clock when Troy showed
up in the morning getting things cleaned up and you know,
put away. So luckily we saw the predator, took the
(11:39):
other generator off the trailer yesterday morning. Oh, Durham X
does not have support on the weekends, at least not
phone support, only AI chat support, and they'll help you
put in a ticket.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Ok, can I ask you some things to see if
you checked him?
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Sure?
Speaker 3 (12:01):
Was there a breeze anywhere?
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Was the breeze point like pointed towards.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
The It was not a CO two. It was not
a CO two issue.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
You really just think it was overheating.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
No, it wasn't because it was cooled all the way
down and still wouldn't start. That was the first thing
we thought of, because it was that hot down there.
You could see heat coming off the generator.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
But anyways, Yeah, it wasn't a CO two issue. That
light never kicked in outside of on startup, but it
always flashes when you started it up. But yeah, it
was like a three second like it would start up,
run for like it would never get past like the
test section. So yeah, oil was good, gas was good obviously. Yeah,
(12:49):
all that stuff was fine. So much so even when
I took it off the trailer yesterday Skippie and headed
out in the open, it still wouldn't start up. So
there's not as many tricks and tips on the old
YouTube for these as there are for predators. But I
(13:09):
was just fiddling around yesterday I found a quick connect
relay that I unplugged it looks like it was coming
from the CO two sensor, and it started up and
Ran I touched it back together and it started to
shut back down, pull it back apart. Ran fine. I
(13:31):
was like, all right, we'll love this, right, And when
I was looking online it wasn't the CO two sensor,
but it was coming from the same block whatever. Anyways, Yeah,
so I was like, okay, we'll get it back on
the trailer. We'll let it run for because we had
a couple of open houses yesterday. I want to we're
serving off the truck and we wanted to make sure
that we had air conditioning. So we got it back
(13:53):
on the trailer, ran to the open house. It was
running fine, but we were definitely not running at full
power output because with everything on we were, it was
if everything kicked in at the same time, you would
definitely the lights would start to dim and like we'd
have to shut up the air conditioner real quick. So
(14:14):
obviously something is still not right even with that unplugged.
So today I'll be taking it back off the trailer.
It's a good thing to sing. Only weigh three hundred
and fifty pounds. Yeah, oh all right, but it's a
the tongue, so the rams don't sit right and it's
on blocks, so it's it's still a pain in the
(14:34):
s but it's easier. So I'll be taking that off today.
Colin Durham X, We'll be running off the Predator for
the next couple of days. At least it'll be a
smidge and cooler. But yeah, it is what it is.
The Predator ran the steam table, the new steam table. Okay,
obviously we weren't going to run the ac with everything else,
(14:54):
but yeah, so that was that day. Luckily come with
a three year warranty an them standard from Duramax, so
that's good. Yeah. Yeah, And then someday we had a
couple open hounses. Those went just fine, so all in all,
(15:15):
not too bad of a week. It was obviously less
than what we were hoping for. We did fourteen to
seven last week, so we were really hoping to get
somewhere closer to seventeen eighteen with Pride Festival. I mean
even I mean realistically twenty would have been ideal to
(15:36):
hit our goal of seventy for the month. Now, we
just got to hit twenty one this week for to
get to seventy, which probably is not going to happen.
We're at fifty three right now, so we just need
another twenty six twenty six thousand, seven hundred. That's not right,
sixteen thousand, seven hundred.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
Is that right?
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Yeah, we seed say sixteen seven this week for the
rest of the week, piece of cake.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Well, looking at your looking at your schedule right now?
Does that an account?
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Does that an account?
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Yeah, we haven't accepted payment for that. That's not part
of our accrued sales already. So that's four. So really
we had to do like twelve seven over five days.
Oh that's not right, man, seven by five twenty five
a day. We can do it. Yeah, yeah, I mean
(16:40):
it's possible. I'm not going to hold my breath. We'll
get close to seventy I think. Yeah, good day, it's
we Definitely the subdivisions we have are all solid subdivisions,
so flunches pull through. There's definitely two grand a day
out there. Our weekend is a twenty five hundred dollars
(17:01):
days so yeah, yeah, that's fine. It's gonna be a
good month. It's gonna be our best June we've ever had,
so yeah, good day, it'll be a good month. Things
are going well thus far in the world of me.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
Well, thanks, this is going for one of us.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Oh, you're doing just fine. Real quick, I want to
we'll get to our update on where we're at for
the year. We're up fourteen percent net sales over last year.
We're at one hundred and eighty seven right down one
hundred and eighty seven. Five. We're up thirty three percent
June over June, but that's gonna come down. We did
(17:51):
twenty last the last week of June last year, it
was a monster week for us. We had two well
to forty five hundred dollar day so I guess it
was an in the day and maybe two the days
last year back to back. So yeah, things are Things
are good. We're at fifty three for the month.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
Thanks.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Good, so not bad, not to.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
Not too shopping. Uh yeah, so m hmm. It's gonna
cost about four thousand dollars to fix my wall. That's great.
Oh your basement, Yeah all right, don't forget the cabinets
(18:37):
I was going to put in and the floors were
going to put in. Yeah, this kitchen remodel is north
of twelve grand. Awesome money they putting every day.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
That's a good thing. You got PB and J's money.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
So we uh, last week, what did we do last week?
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (18:55):
Yeah, last week? So we took We went to a normal,
normal sw that we go to on Tuesdays, all the
way up in Canton, an hour and ten minutes away.
Friend of our friend of ours lives there, so we
always go at least once a year. We've always done
twelve thirteen hundred somewhere on there. This one we did
(19:15):
two hundred and sixty seven dollars. Uh, rock on, rock on,
So yeah, so that that wasn't good. Wednesday was Wednesday
was a good Wednesday again, forty orders at the shop,
no change. Thursday was pretty dead ish. That's why I
(19:40):
made the decision to close early so I could get
some house stuff done. I just didn't want to bring
people in and just pay people just to be here,
so I just shut down. I needed I needed time.
Do you think that was weather related there? It could
have been. I think that was the first of the
hot days, but it wasn't. I mean, you guys didn't
(20:04):
have storms. You guys don't have rain storms. Ours was Wednesday,
and that's when it was Wednesday's fine. Maybe that's when
the storms were were Wednesday.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Yeah, storms Wednday. I thought you said to your closed
early Wednesday Thursday. Okay, sorry, Wednesday was a normal day, gotcha?
Speaker 3 (20:23):
Yeah that Wednesday normal day? Did our normal sales? We average,
I mean literally, we have averaged forty orders a day
since we started. It's really weird. So yeah, Thursday closed
it for did a lot of stuff at home, which
was good, needed to be done since I don't have
the time to do it Friday. Friday ended up being
(20:48):
a good day at the shot. It was planning for
the weekend, so took the food chuck out both days.
Be proud of me. Took the food check out three
times this week. That or, as my employee calls it,
the food wagon.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
So here's my question. Yeah, do you think the lack
of the food truck being out maybe hurt your roadside
sales that night in the subdivision?
Speaker 3 (21:18):
No, because it's not even close to our restaurant, like
it's in a whole, It's an hour and ten minutes away.
I was going, I haven't promoted the food truck very well,
so maybe that was why. But I don't promote it
to their subdivision. They do. I'm not allowed in their
(21:38):
hoa Facebook page or whatever, and then my buddy said
that he normally helps me out with the promotion, but
he forgot I was coming. So it was literally I mean,
it was literally dead. Yeah, but we'll talk about what
you just said in a second, because what you just
said kind of triggered something. So Saturday, our downtown area
(22:04):
had a Juneteenth event. The communication was absolutely pissed poor.
Luckily I didn't pay to be in it. So it
starts at too. I get down there about twelve thirty.
I just was just gonna set the truck up and
leave and my girls were gonna show up at one
thirty and start doing what I really needed to do.
(22:25):
And it took me an hour just to get part
and then I'm I'm my girls get there and I'm
walking around and just looking at things. I love community support.
I will always be a fan of. You know, whatever
you can do to get the community involved in whatever
event you're doing, the better off that event will. Ever,
(22:45):
it will always be. The problem is as a food vendor,
you know, we plan, we try to plan for you know,
the four thousand people they said were coming, and it
was packed even for being a ninety five degree day.
It was it was absolutely packed. But there's eight food vendors.
(23:09):
Four of them are sorry, we'll say eight food trucks.
Two of them were cold, like one's ice cream, ones
shaved ice. Four barbecue vendors or barbecue food trucks, and
then like four mom and pop let's set up a
tent and grill some ribs for the public, which we
(23:34):
had no idea was coming. And I got my first
I got my first smart remark from a nice lady.
One of the cops that I know from downtown was
looking at me as I was walking next to her
tent and said, oh, you you know you want some barbecue.
(23:56):
I said, I eat too much of my own stuff.
I don't need any more. He's he's like, oh, I
know you want to try this out? I said, you
know me, I owned the truck down the way. Oh yeah,
PB and J's like yeah. I was like, I'm like,
why are you doing this in front of a mom
and pop vendor? So I guess the lady who was
at the vendor tent wasn't listening to me and said, oh,
(24:17):
you know what the real barbecue is, don't you, And
as she's standing there with like disposable chafing racks holding
lids on a bunch of rib tips that just don't
look cooked. And I said, no, I owned the barbecue.
Oh you do? I said, yeah, I mean we can
trade if you want. And she's like, I don't eat
(24:38):
meat like what they anyway. So in seven or seven
hours I told them to shut down an hour early
because they were miserable. In seven hours, we did five
hundred bucks. Please sorry, so you're I'm mute, okay, So yeah,
(25:03):
we did five hundred and twenty six dollars. It was
an absolute bust. Went back to the shop to prepare
for the next day. Didn't end up leaving the shop
until eleven thirty midnight somewhere out there. Got up the
next day on Sunday because my guy can be here
(25:23):
from five to eight because he has church, and we
had catering pickups in the shop and everything, and we
had our flavor fruit farm that we always do really
really good at and it was the barbecue festival. So
I go drop the trailer off there. I had three
people come into the shop who had visited the food
truck there to try more stuff. It's literally fifteen minutes away,
(25:51):
so it's awesome. We'll always go there good promotion. And
they said that of the four barbecue trucks that were there,
we were the only one of the line. Everybody else
was kind of My girls had told me that people
that were waiting for their food ended up coming over
to us to get like a site or something like that,
because they were still waiting for their food. As much
(26:14):
as I love a toasted bun on like a burger
or something like that, I don't think it's necessary to
toast buns on a barbecue truck. Because that's what this
guy was doing, is he had one he was had
one guy with a blackstone just toasting buns, and but
he would toast them to order. He wouldn't toast them
like ahead of time. So anyway, so for the whole
(26:36):
the whole day, and we sold out Sunday, both places,
the food truck in the shop. We ended up doing
ten to five, even closing early on Thursday and having
a shit show on Tuesday. So yeah, all right, so
(26:58):
I wanted to as far as overall sales, let's go
back to that part. Oh, this year, this year, we're
up forty year every year just for us, just from
(27:24):
food truck season until now we're up just shy of
thirty percent. So granted, food truck season is different because
(27:46):
we have the shot, but right we have already as
far as Caden goes, we've already hit last year's total
as far as invoice is out and invoice is paid.
So I'm hoping to crack one hundred. That'd be that
was my goal this year. Good but anyway, I'll orn not. Yeah,
(28:14):
it was. It was a rough week for me mentally.
There was I'm running myself then, and I'm having hard
times with employees that I that I've had for a while.
It seems like when they're on the job, they want
to be on the job. They're doing whatever they should.
I can't say it's literally just one person, but I
(28:40):
don't know. All right, So Chris has been with you
since day almost day one, right give or take.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
Yeah, I mean definitely since full time status are full
time running the truck. He did some weekends with us
in the fall of twenty nineteen.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
So when he was full time, all right, when he
went full time working whatever days, did you ever have
and maybe with any employee, did you ever have an
issue with what I call willful ignorance? Something then okay.
So something that somebody knows what needs to be done
(29:19):
but chooses not to do it and then blame the
fact they didn't know it.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
Nothing comes to mind. I'm sure it's happened, So you know,
something came. Chris usually just blames that he didn't hear me.
I still think he has some selective here.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
So two things happened to this this weekend. And I
said it to my morning guy who listens to our podcast. Now,
thank you, we're gonna have my more. We had your
morning or your one of your guys off, we're gonna
have my morning guy. Anyway. I I said to him
that it's like when they're working. They're working, but it's
(30:03):
like as soon as they want to leave, it's like
get everything, everything done as fast as possible, find the
easiest way out, and then gun. So I'll give you
an example. So our she she had asked me, she's
been with me literally, I mean year one, full year one.
(30:26):
She has her own day job, but she's always been
on the food truck with me.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
Mhm.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
And I've let her run it by herself before. So
I have I have confidence that you can do everything fine.
But she said, hey, why don't you hire my friend.
She's got a lot of experience, she's tended bar. You know,
she's reliable, shows up on time, and I'll train her well.
(30:50):
When I brought that up on things that she didn't do,
she's like, we get paid the same. It's not my responsibility.
M So at the end of the day, it's my responsibility,
and I realize that, and I'm growing as an owner,
realizing it's my fault because I didn't train here properly
and let somebody else tried to do it right. But like,
(31:10):
my remember you told me that I should probably get
like an extra square cord pack. Yeah, I never did
so trailer and pick it up the cord that goes
into the credit card reader for outside. Never, nor has
anybody ever removed that cord from the top of them.
(31:33):
We always just unplugged the one from the register.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
Okay, So.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
That cord was removed and was shut in the vending window.
So the end was like sandwiched. So it was basically
borderline broke. Luckily I was able to bend it back
and it worked, or else I would have to figure
(32:01):
out what to do yesterday. But the second thing was
on yesterday. They know that since the flavor. The fruit
farm always has food trucks every week or during the fall,
it's like every weekend, but they have food truck rallies
at least once a month up until like August, and
(32:22):
then basically every weekend they bring in dumpsters. Now, these
dumpters are the size of the Lincoln Continental plus five
feet okay, so they're huge. There's no way, and and
my girl has taken taken them out with me, so
(32:42):
she knows they're there yesterday to pick up the trailer
if they had already left. And I get told by
one of the workers that says the owner of the
food front wants to talk to me. I'm like, okay,
anything wrong? What should what should be prepared for? I
guess the girls decided to put the two big black
(33:09):
trash bags in a random garbage can, and so when
they went to change the garbage can out, everything ripped
all over the place because of course it has aluminum
pans in there, and they scrunched them in their bags
and everything. So when I asked her about it, Hey,
did you I said, I just got a tongue lashing
(33:30):
from the owner. And this is somewhere we could be
kicked out because of this, Like they're very serious this
type of stuff. I said, did you take the the
garbage out to the dumpsters like we normally do after
end of each event at this place, or to throw
them into random or in a random garbage cam? And
I get back, seriously, are they sure they were ours?
(34:00):
To answer the question yes or no? And obviously I
know it was ours because they said somebody put it
in the garbage can that was right by our trailer.
But then she says noted, like like noted, I didn't
see a dumpster. Again, it's the size of a Lincoln Continental.
(34:20):
You can't miss it. You're just not looking. Yeah, the
other day at the shop, she punched out like seven
minutes early, Like did you I asked her, did you
close seven minutes early? But yeah, there was no customers.
I don't give two shits if there's no customers. Thank
you for saving eight minutes of payroll. But like, what
(34:43):
if I had somebody that wanted to come in at
seven to fifty five, I wanted to buy you out
because you weren't sold out.
Speaker 2 (34:49):
MH.
Speaker 3 (34:51):
So that's the problem I'm doing. And I told my
morning guy, it seems that I get pissed about little
things like I mean, I'm not gonna say little things,
but it's little things in the grounds.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
I mean, Chris. Chris would start taking the menu down
at like five minutes to close. So what are you doing?
We're not closed. He's like, hey, but they're like five minutes.
It's like what if someone looks over at the trailer closed?
Speaker 3 (35:19):
Going back to Saturday, I had told her ahead of time, Hey,
if it's slow, send Kristin home, the new girl, send
her home. So four hours into a six hour event,
I sent her a text. Notice they only did like
four hundred and fifty bucks. I said, why don't we
send her home? Okay, do you want me to close down?
We rode together. No, I don't want you to close down.
(35:43):
Oh well, what do you want me to do? It's
a bust, like it doesn't make sense. They have two
people on payroll. Yeah, okay, we won't ride together anymore.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
I'm a good call.
Speaker 3 (35:56):
Why the hell couldn't she just go sit in their
conditioning for an hour?
Speaker 2 (36:02):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (36:03):
Oh, not to mention she had the air conditioning on
and all the doors and windows open.
Speaker 2 (36:08):
It's efficient air movement, because.
Speaker 3 (36:10):
She said, she said, oh, I don't think it's keeping up.
I'm like, it's ninety fucking degrees out with a heat
index of one hundred and five. I don't think anything's
keeping up. Yeah, anyway, So we had good sales except
for two of the days and fuck my life.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
But anyway, anything new on the landlord front.
Speaker 3 (36:37):
Yeah, pretty much. Three days this week I had to
text them and ask about the air conditioning in the
dining room because it seems like it mysteriously changes at
six o'clock to like seventy five. And they're trying to
tell me that it's that it's just hot out and
it's not keeping up, even though I say, hey, it's
(36:58):
been hot out all day and we have had any
problems yet, kah, So I do we do have a
a brunch place or breakfast place that's closing down because
they're renting and the landlord doesn't believe in updates and
(37:20):
so they're looking. They found another place, and he said
that he wants to talk to me about it, which
I kind of I don't know. I don't need to
be involved in anything else. You can barely hold down
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Speaker 3 (00:47):
Skippy exactly. That's my answer, that's my answers for dog barking.
Oh there you yeah, I'm good.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Good morning. I hope you are well as well as
can be expected, so very well. Good close to retirement.
Looks like all of our zeros of listeners. There is Steve.
Good morning. Steve is also doing well. I am assuming Steve.
How you doing today?
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Steve is probably doing better than both of us. Nine.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
No, I'm doing great, fantastic. Look look at all this
nice color I have?
Speaker 3 (01:32):
There is color there?
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Yeah, that's from sitting in a parking lot for seventeen
hours on Saturday, not seventeen close. So I got there
at seven and we left it was only fifteen hours
left at ten.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Did you make money?
Speaker 2 (01:55):
No?
Speaker 3 (01:58):
No, I guess we'll talk about that too.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Lowest attendance they've had since they started.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
It is it because it was the gates.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
I'm gonna guess I'm gonna guess that's part of the reason.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
So, uh, Alaska looks really good, right, Good morning, Andrew h.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
I actually have a blanket on my lap right now
because I'm a little chilly in my office.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
I'm sitting here in my kitchen and so seventy five degrees.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
That's sixty sixty nine in my in my house. But
the event is right.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Sons like pebbles or want to go outside and play.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Birds?
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Oh damn birds.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
We have lots of birds. We love our birds. Good
morning friend, Good morning everybody there over birds listeners we
are We love our birds. We feed them. We uh yeah,
we love our birds. Call them George if we could
catch them. For those that don't listen live. Sorry about
(03:11):
the delay in last week's podcast. I don't know what happened,
so but it's up and I will try to get
today's up in active today.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
So you can binge too. And one god that's right.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Yeah, Good morning, Pam, welcome back listening and watching for
a little bit this morning. Part Yeah. So everybody had
solid weeks last week. It sounds like you another booming
(03:42):
week for you, selling out left and right. I only
stold out on on Sunday. You know doing awesome things
have the advantage of indoor seating with air conditioning for
your people.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Oh, don't get me started on that. You said we
gotta cut it short today. I don't. I don't know
if I haven't time to cut it short.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Well, let's see, we're gonna we got about till ten
fifteen today. Guys. We got some stuff to take care of.
I have some stuff to take care of, suff Why
don't we hop right into it. Then I'll start that way.
You can have the floor for the rest of the day.
Excuse me, sorry, sorry, Let me get I got I
gotta move some tabs around here. I have to be
careful though, because it changes the YouTube stream when I
(04:30):
do this too much, so and I want I don't
want that to happen. People start yelling at me. All right.
Second to last week at June, we it was I
had an appointment with a cardiologist, just a yearly check up. Yeap,
everything's perfect. Probably the lowest my blood pressure has been
(04:51):
ever at a doctor's office, So that's arasy. It was.
It was a little alarming, but all my armories sound good.
Skippy is going to hang himself now, see into the darkness.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
He goes.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
He will once again emerge with a knife.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
I had my, my, my, He's got to take his
his his heart, medicine, healthy heart, all right. So yeah,
that that was That was the highlight of the work week.
I think, oh it was a let's just say lack
(05:36):
luster would be a good word. We were due. We
were due for one of these weeks. I think, yeah,
it's Tuesday. Tuesday was okay. It was a normal spot
for the Great Lakes Insurance and then trail Point pretty
average on both of those fronts. Did a solid eleven
(05:57):
or I think eleven hundred for lunch and then seven
eight for dinner. It was starting to them, yeah, yeah,
we Yeah, lunches have really been holding down the fort
and then we've been getting I mean, the bar scene
is starting to come around for us now that it's
warming up and all these patios are starting to come around.
(06:18):
Wednesday was the rainy day that we had. Yeah it was,
and we had been had a circle since Sunday that
you know it's gonna be hit and miss. It was
a forty chance of rain all day. It definitely showed
at lunch. I think we did four hundred for lunch,
our dinner service is was that tip too in Grand Haven,
(06:43):
which is an outdoor only space, so it's only patio.
They have taps there. It's an offshoot of a bar
that's just around the corner, so this is their outdoor
space that they do. If it rains, they close it
down obviously because there's not gonna be anybody there. So
we had we had been in conversations all day that day,
kind of keeping an eye on forecast and radars and stuff.
(07:05):
It stated about a fifty percent chance of rain. I
said we were because we already had food obviously is made,
so I said we were good to try, and they
were on board with that. I think we were there
for an hour before there was lightning in the area
and they shut it down. Yes, I think we did
six hundred the whole day that day, yep, which, oddly enough,
(07:32):
June eighteenth of last year was a super slow day
for us, Like we alalys missed last year's sales by
like one hundred and fifty dollars for the same date,
oddly enough, so something about June eighteenth, I'll to keep
that for next year. But yeah, Thursday, we had catering,
which is always nice to kind of bounce back from
a crap day with some guaranteed money. Friday Kent County,
(07:58):
Kent County Jail and River Park. We've never been to
the jail on a Friday. Probably won't schedule that next
year again that way, especially during the summer. I don't know.
I don't know if it was there or just the day,
but it had started to get hot at that point,
so I don't know if that had some effect. But
(08:20):
our neighborhood that night was super slow too, So yeah,
just not another it was I think we did between
the two road sidewise, I think we did. We're like
thirteen hundred for the day. We had an open house
which was another thirteen So all in all a fine day,
but kind of kind of sad to have some real
(08:41):
slow roadside days in the same week. Saturday, Saturday Saturday
we had the Grand Rapids Pride Festival, which should be
a huge day. We were we were shooting for five
to six that's what we kind of prepared food for
five to six thousand, and had it been a normal year,
(09:04):
I think we would have been sold out by seven
eight o'clock. So it was very slow, and we still
did twenty six hundred. I think it was what twenty
five hundred, So yeah, people the spot we were at,
the shade was kind of circulating around depending on where
the sun was sitting buildings and stuff. You could definitely
(09:25):
see people congregating at trucks that had shade at them.
So unfortunately we didn't have much shade most of the
day where we were located. So yeah, I blame the heat,
but it was a it was a long, a long
day with some equipment malfunctions. Our new generator at ninety
(09:50):
eight hours shut off. It would start up and shut
right back off, start up, shut right back off, could
not get it running again. We thought maybe it was overheating.
We had fans blowing on it from some other trucks
trying to get it to cool off. It got to
(10:11):
that we could we could touch the engine, and we
still couldn't get to say started. So Chris Chris and
his friend Bo were running a catering for us on
in the southern part of Michigan, so they stopped by
the house on their way back through, grab the predator,
drop that off so we could get at least get
(10:31):
dishes going again, because yeah, we were three and a
half hours without a generator still serving a steam table
will stay hot. Yeah, yeah, all the hot food was hot.
There was no worries about that. We were keeping an eye,
keeping an eye on the little boy, making sure everything
was good, that we were within ranges that were safe
(10:54):
to serve. But we were close. I mean, Caleb and
I have multiple conversations about, you know, shutting it down,
but I mean so we I mean, yeah, we served
as long as we could. It was hot, it was
miserable during that few hours. But yeah, I mean Chris,
Chris and Bow got down there I think just after
(11:15):
eight o'clock with the other generator so it could at
least get things fired up and get dishes done. I
didn't get home till eleven thirty. So if we wouldn't
have had that the other generator show up, like, I
would have been up until three o'clock when Troy showed
up in the morning getting things cleaned up and you know,
put away. So luckily we saw the predator, took the
(11:39):
other generator off the trailer yesterday morning. Oh, Durham X
does not have support on the weekends, at least not
phone support, only AI chat support, and they'll help you
put in a ticket.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Ok, can I ask you some things to see if
you checked him?
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Sure?
Speaker 3 (12:01):
Was there a breeze anywhere?
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Was the breeze point like pointed towards.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
The It was not a CO two. It was not
a CO two issue.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
You really just think it was overheating.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
No, it wasn't because it was cooled all the way
down and still wouldn't start. That was the first thing
we thought of, because it was that hot down there.
You could see heat coming off the generator.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
But anyways, Yeah, it wasn't a CO two issue. That
light never kicked in outside of on startup, but it
always flashes when you started it up. But yeah, it
was like a three second like it would start up,
run for like it would never get past like the
test section. So yeah, oil was good, gas was good obviously. Yeah,
(12:49):
all that stuff was fine. So much so even when
I took it off the trailer yesterday Skippie and headed
out in the open, it still wouldn't start up. So
there's not as many tricks and tips on the old
YouTube for these as there are for predators. But I
(13:09):
was just fiddling around yesterday I found a quick connect
relay that I unplugged it looks like it was coming
from the CO two sensor, and it started up and
Ran I touched it back together and it started to
shut back down, pull it back apart. Ran fine. I
(13:31):
was like, all right, we'll love this, right, And when
I was looking online it wasn't the CO two sensor,
but it was coming from the same block whatever. Anyways, Yeah,
so I was like, okay, we'll get it back on
the trailer. We'll let it run for because we had
a couple of open houses yesterday. I want to we're
serving off the truck and we wanted to make sure
that we had air conditioning. So we got it back
(13:53):
on the trailer, ran to the open house. It was
running fine, but we were definitely not running at full
power output because with everything on we were, it was
if everything kicked in at the same time, you would
definitely the lights would start to dim and like we'd
have to shut up the air conditioner real quick. So
(14:14):
obviously something is still not right even with that unplugged.
So today I'll be taking it back off the trailer.
It's a good thing to sing. Only weigh three hundred
and fifty pounds. Yeah, oh all right, but it's a
the tongue, so the rams don't sit right and it's
on blocks, so it's it's still a pain in the
(14:34):
s but it's easier. So I'll be taking that off today.
Colin Durham X, We'll be running off the Predator for
the next couple of days. At least it'll be a
smidge and cooler. But yeah, it is what it is.
The Predator ran the steam table, the new steam table. Okay,
obviously we weren't going to run the ac with everything else,
(14:54):
but yeah, so that was that day. Luckily come with
a three year warranty an them standard from Duramax, so
that's good. Yeah. Yeah, And then someday we had a
couple open hounses. Those went just fine, so all in all,
(15:15):
not too bad of a week. It was obviously less
than what we were hoping for. We did fourteen to
seven last week, so we were really hoping to get
somewhere closer to seventeen eighteen with Pride Festival. I mean
even I mean realistically twenty would have been ideal to
(15:36):
hit our goal of seventy for the month. Now, we
just got to hit twenty one this week for to
get to seventy, which probably is not going to happen.
We're at fifty three right now, so we just need
another twenty six twenty six thousand, seven hundred. That's not right,
sixteen thousand, seven hundred.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
Is that right?
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Yeah, we seed say sixteen seven this week for the
rest of the week, piece of cake.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Well, looking at your looking at your schedule right now?
Does that an account?
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Does that an account?
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Yeah, we haven't accepted payment for that. That's not part
of our accrued sales already. So that's four. So really
we had to do like twelve seven over five days.
Oh that's not right, man, seven by five twenty five
a day. We can do it. Yeah, yeah, I mean
(16:40):
it's possible. I'm not going to hold my breath. We'll
get close to seventy I think. Yeah, good day, it's
we Definitely the subdivisions we have are all solid subdivisions,
so flunches pull through. There's definitely two grand a day
out there. Our weekend is a twenty five hundred dollars
(17:01):
days so yeah, yeah, that's fine. It's gonna be a
good month. It's gonna be our best June we've ever had,
so yeah, good day, it'll be a good month. Things
are going well thus far in the world of me.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
Well, thanks, this is going for one of us.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Oh, you're doing just fine. Real quick, I want to
we'll get to our update on where we're at for
the year. We're up fourteen percent net sales over last year.
We're at one hundred and eighty seven right down one
hundred and eighty seven. Five. We're up thirty three percent
June over June, but that's gonna come down. We did
(17:51):
twenty last the last week of June last year, it
was a monster week for us. We had two well
to forty five hundred dollar day so I guess it
was an in the day and maybe two the days
last year back to back. So yeah, things are Things
are good. We're at fifty three for the month.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
Thanks.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Good, so not bad, not to.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
Not too shopping. Uh yeah, so m hmm. It's gonna
cost about four thousand dollars to fix my wall. That's great.
Oh your basement, Yeah all right, don't forget the cabinets
(18:37):
I was going to put in and the floors were
going to put in. Yeah, this kitchen remodel is north
of twelve grand. Awesome money they putting every day.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
That's a good thing. You got PB and J's money.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
So we uh, last week, what did we do last week?
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (18:55):
Yeah, last week? So we took We went to a normal,
normal sw that we go to on Tuesdays, all the
way up in Canton, an hour and ten minutes away.
Friend of our friend of ours lives there, so we
always go at least once a year. We've always done
twelve thirteen hundred somewhere on there. This one we did
(19:15):
two hundred and sixty seven dollars. Uh, rock on, rock on,
So yeah, so that that wasn't good. Wednesday was Wednesday
was a good Wednesday again, forty orders at the shop,
no change. Thursday was pretty dead ish. That's why I
(19:40):
made the decision to close early so I could get
some house stuff done. I just didn't want to bring
people in and just pay people just to be here,
so I just shut down. I needed I needed time.
Do you think that was weather related there? It could
have been. I think that was the first of the
hot days, but it wasn't. I mean, you guys didn't
(20:04):
have storms. You guys don't have rain storms. Ours was Wednesday,
and that's when it was Wednesday's fine. Maybe that's when
the storms were were Wednesday.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Yeah, storms Wednday. I thought you said to your closed
early Wednesday Thursday. Okay, sorry, Wednesday was a normal day, gotcha?
Speaker 3 (20:23):
Yeah that Wednesday normal day? Did our normal sales? We average,
I mean literally, we have averaged forty orders a day
since we started. It's really weird. So yeah, Thursday closed
it for did a lot of stuff at home, which
was good, needed to be done since I don't have
the time to do it Friday. Friday ended up being
(20:48):
a good day at the shot. It was planning for
the weekend, so took the food chuck out both days.
Be proud of me. Took the food check out three
times this week. That or, as my employee calls it,
the food wagon.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
So here's my question. Yeah, do you think the lack
of the food truck being out maybe hurt your roadside
sales that night in the subdivision?
Speaker 3 (21:18):
No, because it's not even close to our restaurant, like
it's in a whole, It's an hour and ten minutes away.
I was going, I haven't promoted the food truck very well,
so maybe that was why. But I don't promote it
to their subdivision. They do. I'm not allowed in their
(21:38):
hoa Facebook page or whatever, and then my buddy said
that he normally helps me out with the promotion, but
he forgot I was coming. So it was literally I mean,
it was literally dead. Yeah, but we'll talk about what
you just said in a second, because what you just
said kind of triggered something. So Saturday, our downtown area
(22:04):
had a Juneteenth event. The communication was absolutely pissed poor.
Luckily I didn't pay to be in it. So it
starts at too. I get down there about twelve thirty.
I just was just gonna set the truck up and
leave and my girls were gonna show up at one
thirty and start doing what I really needed to do.
(22:25):
And it took me an hour just to get part
and then I'm I'm my girls get there and I'm
walking around and just looking at things. I love community support.
I will always be a fan of. You know, whatever
you can do to get the community involved in whatever
event you're doing, the better off that event will. Ever,
(22:45):
it will always be. The problem is as a food vendor,
you know, we plan, we try to plan for you know,
the four thousand people they said were coming, and it
was packed even for being a ninety five degree day.
It was it was absolutely packed. But there's eight food vendors.
(23:09):
Four of them are sorry, we'll say eight food trucks.
Two of them were cold, like one's ice cream, ones
shaved ice. Four barbecue vendors or barbecue food trucks, and
then like four mom and pop let's set up a
tent and grill some ribs for the public, which we
(23:34):
had no idea was coming. And I got my first
I got my first smart remark from a nice lady.
One of the cops that I know from downtown was
looking at me as I was walking next to her
tent and said, oh, you you know you want some barbecue.
(23:56):
I said, I eat too much of my own stuff.
I don't need any more. He's he's like, oh, I
know you want to try this out? I said, you
know me, I owned the truck down the way. Oh yeah,
PB and J's like yeah. I was like, I'm like,
why are you doing this in front of a mom
and pop vendor? So I guess the lady who was
at the vendor tent wasn't listening to me and said, oh,
(24:17):
you know what the real barbecue is, don't you, And
as she's standing there with like disposable chafing racks holding
lids on a bunch of rib tips that just don't
look cooked. And I said, no, I owned the barbecue.
Oh you do? I said, yeah, I mean we can
trade if you want. And she's like, I don't eat
(24:38):
meat like what they anyway. So in seven or seven
hours I told them to shut down an hour early
because they were miserable. In seven hours, we did five
hundred bucks. Please sorry, so you're I'm mute, okay, So yeah,
(25:03):
we did five hundred and twenty six dollars. It was
an absolute bust. Went back to the shop to prepare
for the next day. Didn't end up leaving the shop
until eleven thirty midnight somewhere out there. Got up the
next day on Sunday because my guy can be here
(25:23):
from five to eight because he has church, and we
had catering pickups in the shop and everything, and we
had our flavor fruit farm that we always do really
really good at and it was the barbecue festival. So
I go drop the trailer off there. I had three
people come into the shop who had visited the food
truck there to try more stuff. It's literally fifteen minutes away,
(25:51):
so it's awesome. We'll always go there good promotion. And
they said that of the four barbecue trucks that were there,
we were the only one of the line. Everybody else
was kind of My girls had told me that people
that were waiting for their food ended up coming over
to us to get like a site or something like that,
because they were still waiting for their food. As much
(26:14):
as I love a toasted bun on like a burger
or something like that, I don't think it's necessary to
toast buns on a barbecue truck. Because that's what this
guy was doing, is he had one he was had
one guy with a blackstone just toasting buns, and but
he would toast them to order. He wouldn't toast them
like ahead of time. So anyway, so for the whole
(26:36):
the whole day, and we sold out Sunday, both places,
the food truck in the shop. We ended up doing
ten to five, even closing early on Thursday and having
a shit show on Tuesday. So yeah, all right, so
(26:58):
I wanted to as far as overall sales, let's go
back to that part. Oh, this year, this year, we're
up forty year every year just for us, just from
(27:24):
food truck season until now we're up just shy of
thirty percent. So granted, food truck season is different because
(27:46):
we have the shot, but right we have already as
far as Caden goes, we've already hit last year's total
as far as invoice is out and invoice is paid.
So I'm hoping to crack one hundred. That'd be that
was my goal this year. Good but anyway, I'll orn not. Yeah,
(28:14):
it was. It was a rough week for me mentally.
There was I'm running myself then, and I'm having hard
times with employees that I that I've had for a while.
It seems like when they're on the job, they want
to be on the job. They're doing whatever they should.
I can't say it's literally just one person, but I
(28:40):
don't know. All right, So Chris has been with you
since day almost day one, right give or take.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
Yeah, I mean definitely since full time status are full
time running the truck. He did some weekends with us
in the fall of twenty nineteen.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
So when he was full time, all right, when he
went full time working whatever days, did you ever have
and maybe with any employee, did you ever have an
issue with what I call willful ignorance? Something then okay.
So something that somebody knows what needs to be done
(29:19):
but chooses not to do it and then blame the
fact they didn't know it.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
Nothing comes to mind. I'm sure it's happened, So you know,
something came. Chris usually just blames that he didn't hear me.
I still think he has some selective here.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
So two things happened to this this weekend. And I
said it to my morning guy who listens to our podcast. Now,
thank you, we're gonna have my more. We had your
morning or your one of your guys off, we're gonna
have my morning guy. Anyway. I I said to him
that it's like when they're working. They're working, but it's
(30:03):
like as soon as they want to leave, it's like
get everything, everything done as fast as possible, find the
easiest way out, and then gun. So I'll give you
an example. So our she she had asked me, she's
been with me literally, I mean year one, full year one.
(30:26):
She has her own day job, but she's always been
on the food truck with me.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
Mhm.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
And I've let her run it by herself before. So
I have I have confidence that you can do everything fine.
But she said, hey, why don't you hire my friend.
She's got a lot of experience, she's tended bar. You know,
she's reliable, shows up on time, and I'll train her well.
(30:50):
When I brought that up on things that she didn't do,
she's like, we get paid the same. It's not my responsibility.
M So at the end of the day, it's my responsibility,
and I realize that, and I'm growing as an owner,
realizing it's my fault because I didn't train here properly
and let somebody else tried to do it right. But like,
(31:10):
my remember you told me that I should probably get
like an extra square cord pack. Yeah, I never did
so trailer and pick it up the cord that goes
into the credit card reader for outside. Never, nor has
anybody ever removed that cord from the top of them.
(31:33):
We always just unplugged the one from the register.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
Okay, So.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
That cord was removed and was shut in the vending window.
So the end was like sandwiched. So it was basically
borderline broke. Luckily I was able to bend it back
and it worked, or else I would have to figure
(32:01):
out what to do yesterday. But the second thing was
on yesterday. They know that since the flavor. The fruit
farm always has food trucks every week or during the fall,
it's like every weekend, but they have food truck rallies
at least once a month up until like August, and
(32:22):
then basically every weekend they bring in dumpsters. Now, these
dumpters are the size of the Lincoln Continental plus five
feet okay, so they're huge. There's no way, and and
my girl has taken taken them out with me, so
(32:42):
she knows they're there yesterday to pick up the trailer
if they had already left. And I get told by
one of the workers that says the owner of the
food front wants to talk to me. I'm like, okay,
anything wrong? What should what should be prepared for? I
guess the girls decided to put the two big black
(33:09):
trash bags in a random garbage can, and so when
they went to change the garbage can out, everything ripped
all over the place because of course it has aluminum
pans in there, and they scrunched them in their bags
and everything. So when I asked her about it, Hey,
did you I said, I just got a tongue lashing
(33:30):
from the owner. And this is somewhere we could be
kicked out because of this, Like they're very serious this
type of stuff. I said, did you take the the
garbage out to the dumpsters like we normally do after
end of each event at this place, or to throw
them into random or in a random garbage cam? And
I get back, seriously, are they sure they were ours?
(34:00):
To answer the question yes or no? And obviously I
know it was ours because they said somebody put it
in the garbage can that was right by our trailer.
But then she says noted, like like noted, I didn't
see a dumpster. Again, it's the size of a Lincoln Continental.
(34:20):
You can't miss it. You're just not looking. Yeah, the
other day at the shop, she punched out like seven
minutes early, Like did you I asked her, did you
close seven minutes early? But yeah, there was no customers.
I don't give two shits if there's no customers. Thank
you for saving eight minutes of payroll. But like, what
(34:43):
if I had somebody that wanted to come in at
seven to fifty five, I wanted to buy you out
because you weren't sold out.
Speaker 2 (34:49):
MH.
Speaker 3 (34:51):
So that's the problem I'm doing. And I told my
morning guy, it seems that I get pissed about little
things like I mean, I'm not gonna say little things,
but it's little things in the grounds.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
I mean, Chris. Chris would start taking the menu down
at like five minutes to close. So what are you doing?
We're not closed. He's like, hey, but they're like five minutes.
It's like what if someone looks over at the trailer closed?
Speaker 3 (35:19):
Going back to Saturday, I had told her ahead of time, Hey,
if it's slow, send Kristin home, the new girl, send
her home. So four hours into a six hour event,
I sent her a text. Notice they only did like
four hundred and fifty bucks. I said, why don't we
send her home? Okay, do you want me to close down?
We rode together. No, I don't want you to close down.
(35:43):
Oh well, what do you want me to do? It's
a bust, like it doesn't make sense. They have two
people on payroll. Yeah, okay, we won't ride together anymore.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
I'm a good call.
Speaker 3 (35:56):
Why the hell couldn't she just go sit in their
conditioning for an hour?
Speaker 2 (36:02):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (36:03):
Oh, not to mention she had the air conditioning on
and all the doors and windows open.
Speaker 2 (36:08):
It's efficient air movement, because.
Speaker 3 (36:10):
She said, she said, oh, I don't think it's keeping up.
I'm like, it's ninety fucking degrees out with a heat
index of one hundred and five. I don't think anything's
keeping up. Yeah, anyway, So we had good sales except
for two of the days and fuck my life.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
But anyway, anything new on the landlord front.
Speaker 3 (36:37):
Yeah, pretty much. Three days this week I had to
text them and ask about the air conditioning in the
dining room because it seems like it mysteriously changes at
six o'clock to like seventy five. And they're trying to
tell me that it's that it's just hot out and
it's not keeping up, even though I say, hey, it's
(36:58):
been hot out all day and we have had any
problems yet, kah, So I do we do have a
a brunch place or breakfast place that's closing down because
they're renting and the landlord doesn't believe in updates and
(37:20):
so they're looking. They found another place, and he said
that he wants to talk to me about it, which
I kind of I don't know. I don't need to
be involved in anything else. You can barely hold down
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