June 23, 2025 • 47 mins
The weather is heating up and so are the sales and the drama! Find out what the boys have been up to!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
But we need three people on the truck to be
able to really to be able to manage that without
everybody losing their minds. Right now, Chris and Caleb are
doing the open house, which is in the southern part
of the state, so they're running to do that. We
need them to stay on site. We're setting it up
like a wedding with non disposable chafing dishes and everything.
This has been a pretty good client of ours. They
(00:22):
really wanted the truck on site and service off the truck,
which is how they did their last open house. So
we're kind of trying to go above and beyond, which
leaves me with we have a couple of our customers
that are going to come through for half day each
run the register for us, which I can teach someone
how to do in five minutes, so that's easy enough,
(00:43):
but would really like another another person, So Chris has
his friend Bo who he works at the Ice place
with are used to work there, has worked with us
a couple of times. So if he's able, and you
won't know until Wednesday, probably if he's able, he'll run
the catering with Chris and I'll have Caleb at the
Pride vessel with me, which would allow me to have
(01:05):
a bathroom break sometime in that ten hour span. Bathroom
breaks are good.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Yeah, have you when you say non disposable, do you just.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Use the the racks and the like? How? What? What's
your what do they look like? Wire racks are disposable
drop offs? That's not what I meant.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Stainless steel racks stainless steel, yes, yes, yeah, so.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Well you still use the foods in disposable aluminium pans still,
but everything else is yes, you're folded down, which we
actually switched. I spent a ship ton of money. I'm
buying five new ones because we had. Those are pretty
much exactly like the ones.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
We have, so I want to invest. These are like
fifty bucks apiece.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Yeah, the ones I got off Amazon are more, but
they're pretty much the same. Okay, So a couple couple
of items of note. Ours are chalkboard, so those probably
are two. So I think we got our. I think
ours are Sterno brand. So it doesn't have the openness
underneath that vents space the airspace there, they're solid, I gotcha,
(02:19):
and the spot for the sternos folds up inside of it,
so it's not a separate piece, if that makes sense,
it just collapse. Those are heavy. They are probably twice
the weight of the stainless steel ones. Just an fyi.
At least the ones we got are so when because
(02:40):
we five is what we put in a tote of
the stainless steel ones. The totes twice is heavy. It's
probably a sixty seventy pounds tote at this point. So
in and out of the back of the pickup truck
was a little bit of adjustment. But they work phenomenally.
Because we had problems with especially with at and events
(03:00):
which are all outside, we had a really hard time
keeping sternals lit and water hot in the in those pans.
The water pans, Chris said, they're down to only use
in pretty much one sterno per Chafinger set up because
it holds the heat in so well that they only
need one two hour sterno in each one of those
(03:22):
things for the two hours that they're there. And he
said it keeps it. He said, it's steaming hot still
with just the one, but it holds the heat in
so well it's like an little insulated oven. He said,
they're awesome. It's a great investment. I think everybody should Uh,
you should definitely look at those. But yeah, webster around,
that's a good price. I think I paid one hundred
(03:42):
for mine. So we have we have our first wedding
where there is a a policy, the wedding gunning is
a policy that if you're doing a buffet inside, it's
to be done in electric warmers. Oh good god, no
(04:05):
open flames. No open flames.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
So I asked the customers, I said, where do you
want it? And they said, well, we'd really like, we'd
really like to have it inside. I said, well, I
have to charge you for inside to be able to
use the because I have to use the electric ones,
make sure they're all good. Plus I probably have to
buy another one because I only have three. So they're yeah,
(04:31):
they're gonna go ahead. I can't find the Sternal brand.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
H yeah. Oh chalkh I like the chalkboard idea. Yeah yeah,
so instead of we used to just have little chalkboard
tents in front of everything, so now we just write
right on the So does this fold up into one
pieces or two pieces? Uh? To say that? What's the
(05:01):
second picture from the top, So that's folded and that folded.
I like that. It's a lot I tell you what
Alex is. Alex does our reader boards whenever she's working
and she is knocking them out of the park. I
got to see if the one that she did Friday
(05:21):
for food Truck Fridays is still there, because she did
a Friday the thirteenth. She had a little Jason mask
on the bottom half something about scary good Barbie. It
was it was really good. Yeah, that's her thing. Back
to Webstauant, so I had talked about the Cambros, the
the whatever it is, the press, poly Erathane, expanded Earth,
(05:44):
and the lightweight ones. All those shelves are no longer
on Cambro's website. Webstauant has them still. I dis ordered
ten today, so basically it's like a regular camera, but
it's it's probably your thing or yeah, they only weigh
(06:06):
like three pounds. No, I know I've seen them, yep,
but yeah, so the album. Do you have those already? Yeah,
we have six already and I just ordered three more today.
So the only the only problem I ever saw with those,
because the buddy of mine had them, was that the
rails that you slide the pans in can become like
very thin to where it's hard like we have. We
(06:29):
have full sized metal pans that we put the other
pants in so they don't fall. We just started doing
that this year, by the way, which I don't know
why the fuck I didn't do it long last time.
But you're gonna have a hard time then because you
have there's a little bit of a gap because the
disposal pants are a little bit taller, so you can't
it's hard to get them in the same rills, which
is why these shelves are so fucking awesome, because you
(06:49):
just have a flat surface to set it out and
they're designed for all that. Those pans, they're like I
don't even remember what I paid thirty bucks apiece for him,
No less than that. I think it was fifteen from
webstrap look it up. But so we didn't We never
had enough for the number of cameros we had, so
we were still doing the same thing, putting stuff in,
(07:10):
you know, stainless steel pans and sliding them in. But
I found a workaround because I had a catering to
drop off. The trailer left without me having to get
stainless steel pans out of it. So I was stuck.
But what I had was I had stainless steel half
pan lids. Yeah, which slid right in there perfectly. I
(07:34):
was able to slide food on top of it and
it held amazingly. So, uh, that is that is a
work on. But what's wrong with theseks? Hold on? Oh
I'm still on my screen. Sorry, step Shot, I'll cook you. Yeah,
what's wrong with these? Like the go boxes, they're fine,
(07:56):
but I mean when you're talking about these, yep, yep,
they're awesome. I love them really, Yeah, they are awesome.
They're so light, dude, Like these full of food are
the same weight as the other plastic ones empty?
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Yeah no, I I yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Are they metal shelves inside or syrophoam shelves? You mean
the rails, Yeah, the rails. The rails are styropham. It's
all the same stuff. So it's it's poly. It's so
it's expanded poly your thing or whatever it is epp. Yeah,
so it's not styrophom. It's different than the serophone. Interesting. Yeah,
(08:44):
they're awesome. Those are as durable as the plastic ones.
At least we have had zero problems with ours. Yeah,
there's your difference. Oh yeah, alls, I do like we
just hose them down the insides of them when we
get back wash them out. They work great, so yeah.
(09:08):
And then they make those shelves that sit in there
and it's just a flat surface, which also means that
you can do hot and cold in the same cambro
with those shelves, So you could do something hot on
the bottom, slide in one of those shelves because it
fits perfectly to the shape of the thing, and then
put like a salad on top, and the salad will
stay cold, the bottom will stay hot. It's pretty cool. Yeah, yep.
(09:33):
They also make they also make hot and cold plates
for those, so they like the ice packs like you
have for your lunch box. They also make shelves that
are designed to put in your freezer, so you can
slide one of those in if you have a longer part.
And they have heated ones that you can put in
an oven and heat them up to give yourself extra
time too. But we've gone we've gone five and a
(09:53):
half six hours and food still coming out of their
hot up the temperature. So yeah, yeah, we love them.
Like with those, like we're hardly ever running the trailer anymore.
Another handles at the top like the restaurant, so you
got front and front and back. There's a lip on
the front and back that you can hold and you
(10:14):
can carry them by. I wish they had the handles,
it would make it a little bit easier. But yeah,
they're awesome. We love them. Like I said, I just
bought three more and a whole bunch of shelves just
the price on Webstaurant. I don't know. I got them
off Amazon. I should have liked. I didn't think websterrant
would have them. Oh, so the cafe owner has a
(10:37):
webstaurant membership. I used to when I would like, especially
during COVID when it was so hard to find some stuff,
like we were getting all our styrofoam stuff from there. But
I order so little stuff that I can't justify the
one hundred dollars a month, you know, because I've not
spend one hundred dollars in shipping typically every once in
a while, yes, but not typically. So yeah, the membership's
(11:02):
just too high for me to justify it. We're getting
some bags from there, and then yeah, I got those shelves,
but I only order bags every month and a half
or so, and I'm only paying thirty dollars and shipping
for those so yeah, I mean I could order more
(11:24):
stuff from there, but it just involves so much more planning,
it does. Yeah, and I just right now, like I'm
still not I'm not off the truck enough the last
couple of months, like there's been I mean the last
couple of weeks. I've been at gfs every day still,
you know, because we always sell them. Well, we don't
(11:48):
have as lovely as our storage space is, Like I
still don't have space to stock you know, divided fiber
plates in the quantity that we need. Know, like I
don't have that space. I don't have enough shelves set
up in there well enough that and yes, just more
time and I could spend out there and reorganize stuff.
(12:09):
But to carry cases of plates and wrapped cutlery and
stuff like that, like all that shit takes up a
lot of space, you know. And now you're talking about
a pallet of sauce that you know, I gotta get
out there, and palettes of rubs and stuff. That's like
everything just takes up space. So by sure, bless you, Matt, Hey, Matt,
(12:31):
I got a question. Angie thinks that for the Pride
Festival we should run a sausage special and a fish
taco special. Okay, I thought that might get towards offensive.
(12:51):
That's why I'm asking you. All right, I'm gonna need
you have like assigned something or other that says that
you approve of sets specials that I could post on
the trailer for the day. Approved, is mada gay? And
(13:12):
that was offensive? But yes, yes that was not. Yeah,
is mad a gay? Yeah? Now, I just needed not
to rain in thunderstorm on Saturday, but it's not sn't
have rainbows without rain, so well, Jeff Gordon would tell
(13:34):
you otherwise. Right now we have we have eighty seven
on Saturday and ninety two on Sunday. Yeah, it's gonna
be hot all week. It's yeah, which that's kind of
my staff. So some things have changed since last time.
We talked generators mounted on the trailer, which wasn't I
don't think we had that done before new steak table
(13:56):
is in. So we have the new steam tables in
the generators we have. We had to get a new
induction burner because somebody didn't slide it all the way
but to the back of the shelf, so the back
feet caught the shelf and it slid off. While in transit,
and all of a sudden it stopped recognizing new pots
or recognizing the pot.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
So we were off too. Did that's come out of
somebody's paycheck? No, may have mine?
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Things happened, It's fine, So yep, went and got a
super nice commercial because I couldn't wait to have one
ship from Amazon. So I went to the one of
the restaurants supply places in Grand Rapids. My normal one
didn't carry them, doesn't carry them in stock. I could
have ordered it Atlas. Their showroom closed in Grand Rapids.
(14:51):
They're open two days a month. Oh not the showroom,
so you can order and pick up. There's somebody there
two days a month that you can you can order
and have you can pick it up. There was one
of those days the day you needed no and then yeah,
so I had to go Google searching for other Luckily
(15:13):
we have a few Grand Rapids that I didn't wasn't
aware of. Found one that had it in stock. Ended
up paying three hundred and something dollars for it. But yeah,
I could have mentioned. You could have went to Detroit
and back and save two. But I was hoping it's
eighteen hundred rots. Temptuary like it has all kinds of
(15:35):
buttons and settings and double no, not a double so single.
I was like, Okay, maybe we'll get some water boiling faster.
Now Nope, same time. So I'm gonna guess it's our
pot that the quality of the stainless steel in the
pot is just not good enough for the transfer of
heat there. So I'm gonna get a different stock pot
and see if that helps. But yeah, we're still forty
(15:57):
five minutes for our twenty court pot. Hold on a second.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
You spent three hundred and seven dollars for an eighteen
hundred watt induction learner.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
I know they're much cheaper on Amazon. I think I
paid fifty bucks for my last one. Why had your money?
I'd burned mine. My goodness, I needed it. I understand
don't have time to do it. You got a drug.
You could have paid me two hundred bucks and I
would have went bought it and delivered it to bought
(16:30):
it where restaurant equippers since Southfield? Okay, fifty bucks? You
think I got five hours extra time? You paid me
and I could have done it for you. You didn't have
time either. I'd have figured it out Monday and Tuesday
off there you go. That was neither of the day
that I needed it.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
So my daughter's pregnant, she could have drove. We're fine,
she needs money anyways. Anyways, well, right, well, at least
you taken care of steam table. I had to order
an outlet.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
I am disappointed with Minards now they are heading the
way that Meyer did. It seems where Meyer used to
used to be able to get outlets, light switches like
they're doing your self department was if you needed something
in a lurch, you could probably get it. You know,
a pretty good amount of stuff. I think they even
(17:22):
have light sockets like you could. Yeah, you could do
a good amount of home repair at Meyer. And now
there's nothing there, you know, nothing useful. Yeah. So Menards
used to carry every kind of weird outlet and plug
that you could think of, Like I got my my
RV plug box there. They don't even carry those anymore.
(17:47):
So you can't get a you can't get a thirty
or fifty RV box there anymore, at least not the
ones in Grand Rapids. But I like the plug. The
outlet that I needed for our steam cabinet, or not
a steam cabin or a warming cabinet was it a
funky plug, but I was able to find one there
was it like this, Yeah, yep. So the one for
(18:09):
the steam table was even more different. It was some wonky,
some Mexican wonky thing. No, I don't know. It was weird.
I don't remember. I don't know. It was bizarre. And
the plug was that big. It's a massive thing. It's
a thirty amp plug. It's massive. So anyways, the thing
(18:35):
only pulls eighteen eighteen amps. Max says it right there
in the paperwork, eighteen maxamps with all three base running. Whatever.
So I got that all. I got the generator on,
got that installed. Everything works phenomenally. The steam table is
doing its job. We are not drying stuff out at all. Really,
(18:56):
we're still getting a little burnt on with the mac
and cheese, but nowhere near the level we were at before.
They have hast is wet. So it's all sealed and
we had so there's low water lights on it to
give you let you know if the water is low.
(19:17):
So typically on our dry table where we would insert
a water pan into them, we'd have to fill that
water during service. On this table, yeah, mostly because the
thermostats are broken on it and it was just on
high all the time. Yeah, for this steam table, we
(19:39):
went a whole week without having to fill them after
we put an inch and a half of water in them.
That's good. Yeah, other than we're to heat No, not really,
we're gonna have to. Yeah, we're gonna have to drain
them though when we move. I mean each one has
(19:59):
its And that was the part I don't like is
the drains on them take up so much space underneath
that we lose an inch and a half of height
on that shelf that's underneath it, which we store our
stockpot in our calendar and everything underneath them. So now
we have all this other stuff and that plug, for
whatever reason, is in the front of the seam table
instead of the back. It's so bizarre Russia. No, it's uh,
(20:26):
what kind of was it. It's a well known name brand.
It's not like an off brand. It's just bizarre where
they put these plugs. So anyways, that's in. It works great.
The generator. I have my own confusion on the generator
works great. No, it works perfect, It works perfect. It
(20:51):
uses some gasoline, but it is it is no louder
than the Predator ninety five hundred decibel rating was the same,
but I had my doubts because it's almost twice as big.
It helps that the muffler faces the backside of the trailer,
so it doesn't even face the pickup truck. It faces away.
But we had a conversation with a couple of guys
(21:13):
on food truck Fridays. We were standing right by the
generator and not really having to raise our voices much.
But it has this really nice digital display that tells
you how many kilobots it's using, and all that I
have not seen it go above three and a half
kilowatts makes zero sense. Yeah, I'll wait for you to
(21:45):
process that in your head. No, because I'm trying to
think of Okay, so what are you What are you
using that pulls hands? Not your your hot waters, propane?
Oh yeah yeah yeah, so you're going to have your
steam to your prep table, your refrigerator. Yeah, those four things,
(22:06):
nacho cheese, warmer, it's all your heating elements that are pulling. Really,
those are the things. It's your They pull a lot
because your free your two fridges are not pulling. No,
they're pulling two or three. Yeah, they're not pulling unless
it's super hot and then they have to work harder.
But yeah, yeah, but you're warmer. I mean, you're warmer
under me unless your new steam table is just that
(22:28):
much more efficient, which you wouldn't think it would be.
But yeah, we were, So we're overloading. We were overloading
the predator at ninety five without without the air conditioner running.
Sometimes we'd get an overload alarm on that at ninety
five hundred, which is eighty five hundred running or whatever
(22:49):
it is. But it's seventy five hundred running. Yeah, so
you could basically run this generator on eco mode. We
got there. We haven't. We've been running this. We've been
with our air on. We're running EGO. Even with the
air it's still not drawn more than thirty and the
air is running all the time. Now, Yeah, it's it's crazy.
(23:15):
I can't wait till that goes out else the air
or the generator. I think that's the last piece of
equipment that hasn't been replaced on that trailer at least
once you still got that on him. Yeah, there is that.
I'm in no rush for a year and a half
(23:35):
in now since it's worked, and yeah, it's not been
an issue for us it's just really good for ringing,
that's all. Yeah, and we've been fairly lucky. But yeah,
I mean there were so many times where it was
raining hard or stormy that we pulled it in anyways
because the wind was you know, yeah, so and because
(23:58):
it has an automatic level or something, you always want
to tell the people, hey, don't stand in that corner, right,
that happened a couple of times. Huh, I'm confused. Well,
I could have sware. I got a notification that said
our ad was approved, I thought, and then when I
(24:24):
just went back to my Facebook page, it said there
was a problem. Well anyways, speaking of ads, yep, I
for the Father's Day thing, I did buy an ad.
I boosted my post. I realized that I made a
mistake on my post. I couldn't edit it. No, you can't.
(24:44):
I said Father's Day was Sunday, June sixteenth. Well, yeah,
it's close.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
So I did a Facebook live yesterday and somebody said
that I had a hater comment and I looked it up.
I looked up everything that I did and I could
not find any comments. And the person that said that
I had a hater comment said that the hater because
I said fathers get our dads get ten percent off,
(25:19):
and so do single moms. Just and so the one guy,
I guess he was like single moms too.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
You lost my business And then I couldn't find the
poster because I just wanted to say, well, maybe I
didn't want your business in the first place. I have
a soft spot for single moms. Moms and true to listening. Mh. Anyway,
(25:47):
just make sure you go the other way and when
you when you run Mother's Day specials, that you include
single dads, absolutely because they are out there. They are mhm.
Whatever you're doing, whatever you whoever you are doing right
by your children's absolutely. How's that institution looking, how's the what?
(26:12):
How's the in state tuition? Looking for alex decent? Good?
It's fine. I mean, I don't know, I don't know.
I'd be happier. I'd be happier if I didn't have
to pay Uh room and board for two years they
require now Michigan state for two years room board. They
used to be one yeah, uhould be one? Yeah, and
(26:33):
no it's two. Which room and board costs more than tuition?
Oh yeah, I have probably one thousand dollars a month.
It's not more nineteen a year, nineteen thousand school year.
So you're almost you know, you're seventeen hundred a month. Fish, Okay, damn, No,
(26:54):
you're talking August through May. Oh you don't even get
it for the full year. No, people don't aren't staying
in dorms over the summer. I don't know this. I
never went. I have never been either, but I know
that the school doesn't have students all year round. Where
do they live? They just go home?
Speaker 2 (27:13):
Yes, they get a new board, they get a new
room the next the next year they come back.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Yes, well I didn't know that. I don't know these things.
I'm sure, so yes, yeah, you're yeah, that's that's room
and board for mid August or late August to May.
So ten months, so nineteen eight months, August, September, October, November, December, January, February, March, April, May.
(27:48):
Thank you. I can at least count that off well
half a junior Jilier, half of August. So yeah, well good,
I'm happy. She's going to Michigan's now. Believe it or not,
Michigan is cheaper. It's really yep. Yeah, Alex's classes, So
(28:12):
tuition for her is going to be about eighteen seventeen.
I think seventeen to eighteen something like that. Ethan is
at sixteen for arguable, arguably a better education. Who's smarter Ethan?
Alex will tell you the same thing. She's she's a good,
(28:36):
self aware person, And yeah, Ethan is a Ethan is
very smart. He was I think twelfth in his class.
I think he just missed up ten and that's only
because he was doing I think his whole senior year
was all accelerated college credit classes. So yeah, bumped down
a little bit, but boo, I mean he was like
(28:56):
taking calculus to his senior year, so yeah, I mean
barely past basic math. He was twelveth in a class
of three and eighty or something like that.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
So this week we have the second half of the
what's called the SAE event. Last month it was the
combustion engine. This month is the electric Engine, where they
go to the track colleges from universities from all.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
Over the country. I think right now there was eighty
eight signed up this week and they basically just make
little mad and Max race cars. Yeah, kind of neat cool.
So I'm expecting a few catering orders just for that awesome.
That was that was our.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
Best week ever. When that was here, it was better.
The race week problem is all these events aren't on
the track website, so I'm finding out secondhand.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
So I want to get back to your your boosted post.
Oh yes. Oh. The other thing is, so I paid
one hundred and forty ducks. How long did you join for?
I tell ye, hold on June first to June fifteenth, Okay,
(30:16):
so yeah, your total per day was pretty low. Then
June first of the fifteenth, of fourteen days, you paid
one hundred and twenty, so you were less than thirty
huh one hundred and forty one and forty So you
were ten bucks a day? Is that what you said?
Your budgetet was ten a day? Okay? So I had
a total total number of views at like fifty for
(30:39):
just under fifty five thousand.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
My reach was twenty one thousand. Post engagement was thirty
six hundred and link clicks for three hundred and three.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
So it says that my.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
Cost per link click I think it was like three.
Oh it doesn't. It doesn't say what it was a
few detailed results. So yeah, our our one last week,
so we do about fail.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
Cost per engagement was four cents. Yeah, okay, per post
engagement you said four cents, that's pretty good. We're usually
around ten to fifteen. But and in my area, it's
a higher volume area, so I think, like Google ad Words,
(31:44):
we're going to pay more for the visibility because there's
so much more, you know. But yeah, for our weekly,
like our last week's post, we had seven hundred and
eight engagements, forty seven hundred reach in, fifty five hundred impressions,
and that's at fifteen a day. So for our daily budget,
(32:07):
I'm usually between fifteen and twenty is what I'll put,
just depending on how the previous weeks have been business wise,
Like if we have super heavy catering two weeks in
a row, we're only getting roadside in you know, two
or three days, and the rest of it's this odd
ball stuff that we're doing not our normal schedule. Like
if we have a week of that or two weeks
(32:28):
of that, like we'll bump up the boost to a
higher budget just to make sure people are seeing it
that we're back to normal schedule type of thing. So
this week we're doing twenty five a day, just really
trying to nail in all our roadside this week, So
my head, did you notice do you think do you
think it helped? Did it equate ten dollars in the store.
(32:52):
That's what the important part is. I think for our
opening day on a Sunday, Yeah, I think it definitely did.
I don't. I don't know how much Father's Day helped.
We did it. So we did a total of sixty
two transactions with an average ticket of almost forty four dollars,
(33:13):
which is I mean, I'd say it was really good.
Yea label the day your audio this went really weird. Well,
it's because your bag was doing something. You're reaching it
your back. Why does that affect your microphone because maybe
(33:34):
you can hear it. I don't know. You went into
a tunnel for a second. So our labor labor for
the day was seven percent. That was the three people
not including myself working, even though I work all right,
and we gave people ten percent off and we only
(33:58):
it equated to probably like one hundred and eighty dollars
in discount. Excellent. That's good. Button Yep. Gross sales is
twenty eight seventy two. Never worked for the year. Right now,
(34:22):
for the year, we're at just under twenty ok take it.
Oh for the year, Oh, we are at Our average
is thirty two. I've paid out thirty four thousand dollars
and labor cost. Labor cost since I started tracking, it
(34:49):
was four pointy four eight. But that doesn't include so
that only includes punched in time, so any episode like
Chris's salary, so that does not include his January through
mid March. Unfortunately, I wish it would. I might have
(35:10):
to have him start clocking in next next year at
the start of the year, but hopefully we'll have a
brick and mortar by then. So why not You're you're
going through Square.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
We already went through that, so you didn't. What do
you You're just simply running a payroll during during the
off months to pay him out.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
You're not. You're not putting in like hours like that
because it will automatically when you run the payroll, it
automatically puts him at forty hours, whether he's clocked interornet.
When you hire somebody, does Square do the online? I
do I do all that? Yeah, yep, okay, yeah, it's
five minutes to put someone in, you know, so I
(35:55):
Square handle all the rest of it. But yeah, I
don't like that. I mean, if they're hitting payroll, they
should hit your labor in my opinion. So yeah, yeah,
forty two hundred and thirty nine transactions. Huh, forty two
that's where I'm at. Forty two hundred. Forty two hundred
(36:20):
and what's forty two hundred? It's confused transactions. Forty two
hundred transactions is what you've done? Yeah, I looked at mine.
I forgot what it was. Let me find it real quick.
Let's see transactions. We're up, you're to date. That's a
(36:42):
nice zero point three two percent, y forty forty seven
seventy one. I'm up thirty seven percent totally. We I mean,
we really haven't changed our average transaction. It's like literally
forty a day. Yeah, some are higher, some they're lower,
(37:05):
but average, I know, if I'm doing forty, we're having
like a twelve hundred dollars day. Give it? Say? Are
you so? Are you getting pretty dialed in on like
meat production for so you like for me, we've talked
about before, like two bucks in a brisket on an
(37:26):
average day, we're going to be about a thousand, you know,
well not about a thousand and sales. Have you got
that kind of like, are you seeing any trends that
way that you can kind of do that? Yeah, we have. So,
like if you go to an event, you're like, okay,
our goal for this event is three grand. What are
(37:50):
you cooking? Depending it depends on the side of the briskets. Well,
of course, yes, but let's say average let's say average
average pork butts, average briskets, So eight pound pork butt,
twelve to fifteen pound briskets, I'm probably cooking it. Brisket.
(38:18):
Brisket goes faster, so I'm probably cooking, but you make
less money at it. Three to four briskets and probably
six porks. Okay, yeah, so you're about what al right,
would be then to try to get to a three
thousand dollars day. And like for like fs like Prime Festival,
we're not going to do meat by the pound. That's
all off the menu, so only sandwiches. Yeah, any of
(38:42):
our festivals we don't do to meat by the pound.
If you want just some meat, then yeah, we'll go
ahead and do a sandwich without a button for you. Actually,
Food truck Fridays we actually did. We allowed half pounds,
not full pounds, but half pounds and cyderwork o, what
(39:03):
like if you if you did start selling half pounds,
would you like alter your price?
Speaker 2 (39:12):
I guess so like we do so like nine we
charged nine to fifty a half pounds for like pork,
right or or nineteen a pounds. I market it on
the in the restaurant by the half pound, and people
will buy, you know, a pound and a half or
something like that. Do you think it'd be better beneficial
for you to do buy the half versus do it
(39:34):
by the full?
Speaker 1 (39:37):
Like do would you? Do? You think you'd see a difference.
Maybe somebody would order a pound and a half versus
like just a pound. We already have people that buy
a pound and a half, like we offer both a
half in full? Oh yeah normally so for like the
last week's Friday, we just took full pounds off could
only Yeah, do you charge? Do you give a discount
for a full? Yeah? Kinner? So half pound of brisket
(40:03):
is thirteen seventy five and a full pound is twenty seven,
So we're that's that twenty six twenty seven fifty so
fifty cents. Nothing's I mean crazy. The biggest is on ribs,
where we're fifteen and twenty eight, I think, So you're
(40:24):
gett another three bucks or two dollars discount at them.
So we're fifteen, we're actually fifteen and twenty six. So
you got a big discount. You got a four dollars
discount of yours. Yeah, so we did went through yesterday.
We went through sixteen re experts. Nice.
Speaker 2 (40:47):
Probably probably my girls. My girls on Saturday took pre orders.
So when I had it, when I got done, I
had to win the Walmart to get some because that's
the only place I can find them that are worth a.
Speaker 1 (41:00):
Damn Yeah, brisket prices are starting to continue to crime
where four seventy nine is what I paid today at GFS,
or four seventy five I think is when I paid
at GFS too.
Speaker 2 (41:13):
Well, let's see if Sam's changed, because Sam's has remained
the same for quite a while, they were four ninety eight,
or if we do a case, it was four seventy
eight for prime and four eighteen for choice. Okay today yep,
(41:33):
four eighteen for choice. Really according to the website, yeah.
Speaker 1 (41:39):
For seventy eight, so I'll probably go. Yeah, but they
still sell they still sell pork buds for two bucks,
and I've seen it as high as two fifty pound. Yeah,
so they make up four other places. But yeah, where
are you getting your ribs from? Gfs? You're buying the
frozen ones, or do them and they shook them in
(42:01):
for fish and they carry them.
Speaker 2 (42:04):
Mind, my only carry is frozen. Oh that's right, you're
doing tips. Never mind, you're doing the big spares. Yep, yeah, Yepan,
I don't even know. I don't even know if they
carry those.
Speaker 1 (42:18):
I don't remember. Yeah, I like the spars generally. We've
gotten some funky cuts on some of them. But the
only problem with doing the full spares is you're gonna
get more variation in size typically, so you're gonna get
some really short short bones. We're gonna get a couple
of racks of those typically in the case. So but
(42:38):
we mix and match for the bigger racks, you know,
so that everybody's getting about the same. But you always
love getting that getting that three pack and that unknown
middle one. So it's the middle one. Sam's dropped there.
There are two packs of full spares down to two
seventy eight pounds. If you buy it by the case,
it's a dollar ninety nine pounds. That's totally good. They
(42:59):
give it really big discount on their ribs. Yeah, I'm
not sure. I'm not sure what prices are at Costco
for brisket. I have not even been because they've been,
they've been a little bit higher than the cfs. But
last time I was there, Oh did I tell you
we checked out the the new Costco business center. You
did not tell me?
Speaker 2 (43:20):
So in Southfield they have a Costco Business center. It's
basically a Costco with more with probably more bottle no
pools or stuff like that, probably, yeah, no, no, like
no electronic sessions. Yeah, no clothes. So I really wanted
to go to see what their meat section look like
(43:40):
because supposedly you can get like wagon brisket and all
sorts of stuff. They had nothing, like it was cleaned
out really like I couldn't get anything, and their prices
weren't any different, I mean any different from regular Costco. Okay,
but I didn't have hour and twenty minutes for They
(44:02):
did have like restaurant supplies like your pans and stuff
like that.
Speaker 1 (44:06):
Which were kind of neat. But yeah, they didn't really
have a lot that was I would say worth me going,
you know, once a month or something. Like that. M. Yeah,
I'll have to check out my costco see what their
prices is. But yeah, every once in a while they
are lower. Oh what it must it must have been
(44:28):
a thing. Uh pork spare ribs by the case to
seventy four pounds all yeah, yeah, I didn't buy that.
I didn't buy the beef ribs from Sam's because they're
almost nine dollars a pound. So you can buy a
(44:50):
whole uncut cowboy steaks or the ribbi with the bones
thirteen forty eight pound uncut. H M. All right, that's it, everybody,
(45:10):
We're done. It's that time already, and I got stuff
to I gotta go pick up the cambros from everywhere. After.
Let my smoker, last thing. Smoker doing well? Which one smokers? Whatever?
Which are your whatever one? The new one? The new
(45:32):
one's going well? Yeah, when the rare times that we're
using it, Yes, that's going well. Oh we're still we're
still jugging along with all red all red. Oh isn't
that red? No? Oh black black? Betty is black? Yes, huh,
(45:56):
never named her. Oh that's right, girt, the problem child.
So yeah, I mean what it gets cooked on it
is phenomenal we're looking forward to. I tell you, we
did some stuff for the like some sides like bake
beans and stuff we've done on there, and man omen
(46:17):
man o, man can't wait to be using that thing
every day. So if it wasn't such a pain in
they asked to take stuff off that smoker and get
it onto the trailer, and that step like, yeah, we
probably would use some more.
Speaker 2 (46:29):
What's our next step is that? Is that one ever
going to be here? Are we just waiting for this
second order?
Speaker 1 (46:34):
Smoker gets installed July sixth, fifth, whatever Sunday is, it's
gonna put on on the back of the Yes, I'm
excited for you. Now, well good, I'm glad that you
were excited. So got to get that done. Got to
get the propane line installed as well. So trying to
(46:55):
line up, trying to line up all the people so
that now that the smoker has an install date, we
have to have the propane line also installed that weekend
so we can actually use said smoker and that would
be yeah. Otherwise it makes that week really weird. Full
top Anyways, all that coming up soon in the next
(47:17):
couple of weeks. Skippy, I hope you have a good
week we're gonna have a good week. I hope our
listeners have a good week. I can't wait to hear
all the sales numbers next week. Try not to make
you mad at me, but yeah, I'm never just uh,
I've heard lots of I hate you, so I mean,
(47:39):
I think we hear that a lot anyway. But it's
O good, all right, everybody have a good week, see
you later. Bye bye.
But we need three people on the truck to be
able to really to be able to manage that without
everybody losing their minds. Right now, Chris and Caleb are
doing the open house, which is in the southern part
of the state, so they're running to do that. We
need them to stay on site. We're setting it up
like a wedding with non disposable chafing dishes and everything.
This has been a pretty good client of ours. They
(00:22):
really wanted the truck on site and service off the truck,
which is how they did their last open house. So
we're kind of trying to go above and beyond, which
leaves me with we have a couple of our customers
that are going to come through for half day each
run the register for us, which I can teach someone
how to do in five minutes, so that's easy enough,
(00:43):
but would really like another another person, So Chris has
his friend Bo who he works at the Ice place
with are used to work there, has worked with us
a couple of times. So if he's able, and you
won't know until Wednesday, probably if he's able, he'll run
the catering with Chris and I'll have Caleb at the
Pride vessel with me, which would allow me to have
(01:05):
a bathroom break sometime in that ten hour span. Bathroom
breaks are good.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Yeah, have you when you say non disposable, do you just.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Use the the racks and the like? How? What? What's
your what do they look like? Wire racks are disposable
drop offs? That's not what I meant.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Stainless steel racks stainless steel, yes, yes, yeah, so.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Well you still use the foods in disposable aluminium pans still,
but everything else is yes, you're folded down, which we
actually switched. I spent a ship ton of money. I'm
buying five new ones because we had. Those are pretty
much exactly like the ones.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
We have, so I want to invest. These are like
fifty bucks apiece.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Yeah, the ones I got off Amazon are more, but
they're pretty much the same. Okay, So a couple couple
of items of note. Ours are chalkboard, so those probably
are two. So I think we got our. I think
ours are Sterno brand. So it doesn't have the openness
underneath that vents space the airspace there, they're solid, I gotcha,
(02:19):
and the spot for the sternos folds up inside of it,
so it's not a separate piece, if that makes sense,
it just collapse. Those are heavy. They are probably twice
the weight of the stainless steel ones. Just an fyi.
At least the ones we got are so when because
(02:40):
we five is what we put in a tote of
the stainless steel ones. The totes twice is heavy. It's
probably a sixty seventy pounds tote at this point. So
in and out of the back of the pickup truck
was a little bit of adjustment. But they work phenomenally.
Because we had problems with especially with at and events
(03:00):
which are all outside, we had a really hard time
keeping sternals lit and water hot in the in those pans.
The water pans, Chris said, they're down to only use
in pretty much one sterno per Chafinger set up because
it holds the heat in so well that they only
need one two hour sterno in each one of those
(03:22):
things for the two hours that they're there. And he
said it keeps it. He said, it's steaming hot still
with just the one, but it holds the heat in
so well it's like an little insulated oven. He said,
they're awesome. It's a great investment. I think everybody should Uh,
you should definitely look at those. But yeah, webster around,
that's a good price. I think I paid one hundred
(03:42):
for mine. So we have we have our first wedding
where there is a a policy, the wedding gunning is
a policy that if you're doing a buffet inside, it's
to be done in electric warmers. Oh good god, no
(04:05):
open flames. No open flames.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
So I asked the customers, I said, where do you
want it? And they said, well, we'd really like, we'd
really like to have it inside. I said, well, I
have to charge you for inside to be able to
use the because I have to use the electric ones,
make sure they're all good. Plus I probably have to
buy another one because I only have three. So they're yeah,
(04:31):
they're gonna go ahead. I can't find the Sternal brand.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
H yeah. Oh chalkh I like the chalkboard idea. Yeah yeah,
so instead of we used to just have little chalkboard
tents in front of everything, so now we just write
right on the So does this fold up into one
pieces or two pieces? Uh? To say that? What's the
(05:01):
second picture from the top, So that's folded and that folded.
I like that. It's a lot I tell you what
Alex is. Alex does our reader boards whenever she's working
and she is knocking them out of the park. I
got to see if the one that she did Friday
(05:21):
for food Truck Fridays is still there, because she did
a Friday the thirteenth. She had a little Jason mask
on the bottom half something about scary good Barbie. It
was it was really good. Yeah, that's her thing. Back
to Webstauant, so I had talked about the Cambros, the
the whatever it is, the press, poly Erathane, expanded Earth,
(05:44):
and the lightweight ones. All those shelves are no longer
on Cambro's website. Webstauant has them still. I dis ordered
ten today, so basically it's like a regular camera, but
it's it's probably your thing or yeah, they only weigh
(06:06):
like three pounds. No, I know I've seen them, yep,
but yeah, so the album. Do you have those already? Yeah,
we have six already and I just ordered three more today.
So the only the only problem I ever saw with those,
because the buddy of mine had them, was that the
rails that you slide the pans in can become like
very thin to where it's hard like we have. We
(06:29):
have full sized metal pans that we put the other
pants in so they don't fall. We just started doing
that this year, by the way, which I don't know
why the fuck I didn't do it long last time.
But you're gonna have a hard time then because you
have there's a little bit of a gap because the
disposal pants are a little bit taller, so you can't
it's hard to get them in the same rills, which
is why these shelves are so fucking awesome, because you
(06:49):
just have a flat surface to set it out and
they're designed for all that. Those pans, they're like I
don't even remember what I paid thirty bucks apiece for him,
No less than that. I think it was fifteen from
webstrap look it up. But so we didn't We never
had enough for the number of cameros we had, so
we were still doing the same thing, putting stuff in,
(07:10):
you know, stainless steel pans and sliding them in. But
I found a workaround because I had a catering to
drop off. The trailer left without me having to get
stainless steel pans out of it. So I was stuck.
But what I had was I had stainless steel half
pan lids. Yeah, which slid right in there perfectly. I
(07:34):
was able to slide food on top of it and
it held amazingly. So, uh, that is that is a
work on. But what's wrong with theseks? Hold on? Oh
I'm still on my screen. Sorry, step Shot, I'll cook you. Yeah,
what's wrong with these? Like the go boxes, they're fine,
(07:56):
but I mean when you're talking about these, yep, yep,
they're awesome. I love them really, Yeah, they are awesome.
They're so light, dude, Like these full of food are
the same weight as the other plastic ones empty?
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Yeah no, I I yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Are they metal shelves inside or syrophoam shelves? You mean
the rails, Yeah, the rails. The rails are styropham. It's
all the same stuff. So it's it's poly. It's so
it's expanded poly your thing or whatever it is epp. Yeah,
so it's not styrophom. It's different than the serophone. Interesting. Yeah,
(08:44):
they're awesome. Those are as durable as the plastic ones.
At least we have had zero problems with ours. Yeah,
there's your difference. Oh yeah, alls, I do like we
just hose them down the insides of them when we
get back wash them out. They work great, so yeah.
(09:08):
And then they make those shelves that sit in there
and it's just a flat surface, which also means that
you can do hot and cold in the same cambro
with those shelves, So you could do something hot on
the bottom, slide in one of those shelves because it
fits perfectly to the shape of the thing, and then
put like a salad on top, and the salad will
stay cold, the bottom will stay hot. It's pretty cool. Yeah, yep.
(09:33):
They also make they also make hot and cold plates
for those, so they like the ice packs like you
have for your lunch box. They also make shelves that
are designed to put in your freezer, so you can
slide one of those in if you have a longer part.
And they have heated ones that you can put in
an oven and heat them up to give yourself extra
time too. But we've gone we've gone five and a
(09:53):
half six hours and food still coming out of their
hot up the temperature. So yeah, yeah, we love them.
Like with those, like we're hardly ever running the trailer anymore.
Another handles at the top like the restaurant, so you
got front and front and back. There's a lip on
the front and back that you can hold and you
(10:14):
can carry them by. I wish they had the handles,
it would make it a little bit easier. But yeah,
they're awesome. We love them. Like I said, I just
bought three more and a whole bunch of shelves just
the price on Webstaurant. I don't know. I got them
off Amazon. I should have liked. I didn't think websterrant
would have them. Oh, so the cafe owner has a
(10:37):
webstaurant membership. I used to when I would like, especially
during COVID when it was so hard to find some stuff,
like we were getting all our styrofoam stuff from there. But
I order so little stuff that I can't justify the
one hundred dollars a month, you know, because I've not
spend one hundred dollars in shipping typically every once in
a while, yes, but not typically. So yeah, the membership's
(11:02):
just too high for me to justify it. We're getting
some bags from there, and then yeah, I got those shelves,
but I only order bags every month and a half
or so, and I'm only paying thirty dollars and shipping
for those so yeah, I mean I could order more
(11:24):
stuff from there, but it just involves so much more planning,
it does. Yeah, and I just right now, like I'm
still not I'm not off the truck enough the last
couple of months, like there's been I mean the last
couple of weeks. I've been at gfs every day still,
you know, because we always sell them. Well, we don't
(11:48):
have as lovely as our storage space is, Like I
still don't have space to stock you know, divided fiber
plates in the quantity that we need. Know, like I
don't have that space. I don't have enough shelves set
up in there well enough that and yes, just more
time and I could spend out there and reorganize stuff.
(12:09):
But to carry cases of plates and wrapped cutlery and
stuff like that, like all that shit takes up a
lot of space, you know. And now you're talking about
a pallet of sauce that you know, I gotta get
out there, and palettes of rubs and stuff. That's like
everything just takes up space. So by sure, bless you, Matt, Hey, Matt,
(12:31):
I got a question. Angie thinks that for the Pride
Festival we should run a sausage special and a fish
taco special. Okay, I thought that might get towards offensive.
(12:51):
That's why I'm asking you. All right, I'm gonna need
you have like assigned something or other that says that
you approve of sets specials that I could post on
the trailer for the day. Approved, is mada gay? And
(13:12):
that was offensive? But yes, yes that was not. Yeah,
is mad a gay? Yeah? Now, I just needed not
to rain in thunderstorm on Saturday, but it's not sn't
have rainbows without rain, so well, Jeff Gordon would tell
(13:34):
you otherwise. Right now we have we have eighty seven
on Saturday and ninety two on Sunday. Yeah, it's gonna
be hot all week. It's yeah, which that's kind of
my staff. So some things have changed since last time.
We talked generators mounted on the trailer, which wasn't I
don't think we had that done before new steak table
(13:56):
is in. So we have the new steam tables in
the generators we have. We had to get a new
induction burner because somebody didn't slide it all the way
but to the back of the shelf, so the back
feet caught the shelf and it slid off. While in transit,
and all of a sudden it stopped recognizing new pots
or recognizing the pot.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
So we were off too. Did that's come out of
somebody's paycheck? No, may have mine?
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Things happened, It's fine, So yep, went and got a
super nice commercial because I couldn't wait to have one
ship from Amazon. So I went to the one of
the restaurants supply places in Grand Rapids. My normal one
didn't carry them, doesn't carry them in stock. I could
have ordered it Atlas. Their showroom closed in Grand Rapids.
(14:51):
They're open two days a month. Oh not the showroom,
so you can order and pick up. There's somebody there
two days a month that you can you can order
and have you can pick it up. There was one
of those days the day you needed no and then yeah,
so I had to go Google searching for other Luckily
(15:13):
we have a few Grand Rapids that I didn't wasn't
aware of. Found one that had it in stock. Ended
up paying three hundred and something dollars for it. But yeah,
I could have mentioned. You could have went to Detroit
and back and save two. But I was hoping it's
eighteen hundred rots. Temptuary like it has all kinds of
(15:35):
buttons and settings and double no, not a double so single.
I was like, Okay, maybe we'll get some water boiling faster.
Now Nope, same time. So I'm gonna guess it's our
pot that the quality of the stainless steel in the
pot is just not good enough for the transfer of
heat there. So I'm gonna get a different stock pot
and see if that helps. But yeah, we're still forty
(15:57):
five minutes for our twenty court pot. Hold on a second.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
You spent three hundred and seven dollars for an eighteen
hundred watt induction learner.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
I know they're much cheaper on Amazon. I think I
paid fifty bucks for my last one. Why had your money?
I'd burned mine. My goodness, I needed it. I understand
don't have time to do it. You got a drug.
You could have paid me two hundred bucks and I
would have went bought it and delivered it to bought
(16:30):
it where restaurant equippers since Southfield? Okay, fifty bucks? You
think I got five hours extra time? You paid me
and I could have done it for you. You didn't have
time either. I'd have figured it out Monday and Tuesday
off there you go. That was neither of the day
that I needed it.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
So my daughter's pregnant, she could have drove. We're fine,
she needs money anyways. Anyways, well, right, well, at least
you taken care of steam table. I had to order
an outlet.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
I am disappointed with Minards now they are heading the
way that Meyer did. It seems where Meyer used to
used to be able to get outlets, light switches like
they're doing your self department was if you needed something
in a lurch, you could probably get it. You know,
a pretty good amount of stuff. I think they even
(17:22):
have light sockets like you could. Yeah, you could do
a good amount of home repair at Meyer. And now
there's nothing there, you know, nothing useful. Yeah. So Menards
used to carry every kind of weird outlet and plug
that you could think of, Like I got my my
RV plug box there. They don't even carry those anymore.
(17:47):
So you can't get a you can't get a thirty
or fifty RV box there anymore, at least not the
ones in Grand Rapids. But I like the plug. The
outlet that I needed for our steam cabinet, or not
a steam cabin or a warming cabinet was it a
funky plug, but I was able to find one there
was it like this, Yeah, yep. So the one for
(18:09):
the steam table was even more different. It was some wonky,
some Mexican wonky thing. No, I don't know. It was weird.
I don't remember. I don't know. It was bizarre. And
the plug was that big. It's a massive thing. It's
a thirty amp plug. It's massive. So anyways, the thing
(18:35):
only pulls eighteen eighteen amps. Max says it right there
in the paperwork, eighteen maxamps with all three base running. Whatever.
So I got that all. I got the generator on,
got that installed. Everything works phenomenally. The steam table is
doing its job. We are not drying stuff out at all. Really,
(18:56):
we're still getting a little burnt on with the mac
and cheese, but nowhere near the level we were at before.
They have hast is wet. So it's all sealed and
we had so there's low water lights on it to
give you let you know if the water is low.
(19:17):
So typically on our dry table where we would insert
a water pan into them, we'd have to fill that
water during service. On this table, yeah, mostly because the
thermostats are broken on it and it was just on
high all the time. Yeah, for this steam table, we
(19:39):
went a whole week without having to fill them after
we put an inch and a half of water in them.
That's good. Yeah, other than we're to heat No, not really,
we're gonna have to. Yeah, we're gonna have to drain
them though when we move. I mean each one has
(19:59):
its And that was the part I don't like is
the drains on them take up so much space underneath
that we lose an inch and a half of height
on that shelf that's underneath it, which we store our
stockpot in our calendar and everything underneath them. So now
we have all this other stuff and that plug, for
whatever reason, is in the front of the seam table
instead of the back. It's so bizarre Russia. No, it's uh,
(20:26):
what kind of was it. It's a well known name brand.
It's not like an off brand. It's just bizarre where
they put these plugs. So anyways, that's in. It works great.
The generator. I have my own confusion on the generator
works great. No, it works perfect, It works perfect. It
(20:51):
uses some gasoline, but it is it is no louder
than the Predator ninety five hundred decibel rating was the same,
but I had my doubts because it's almost twice as big.
It helps that the muffler faces the backside of the trailer,
so it doesn't even face the pickup truck. It faces away.
But we had a conversation with a couple of guys
(21:13):
on food truck Fridays. We were standing right by the
generator and not really having to raise our voices much.
But it has this really nice digital display that tells
you how many kilobots it's using, and all that I
have not seen it go above three and a half
kilowatts makes zero sense. Yeah, I'll wait for you to
(21:45):
process that in your head. No, because I'm trying to
think of Okay, so what are you What are you
using that pulls hands? Not your your hot waters, propane?
Oh yeah yeah yeah, so you're going to have your
steam to your prep table, your refrigerator. Yeah, those four things,
(22:06):
nacho cheese, warmer, it's all your heating elements that are pulling. Really,
those are the things. It's your They pull a lot
because your free your two fridges are not pulling. No,
they're pulling two or three. Yeah, they're not pulling unless
it's super hot and then they have to work harder.
But yeah, yeah, but you're warmer. I mean, you're warmer
under me unless your new steam table is just that
(22:28):
much more efficient, which you wouldn't think it would be.
But yeah, we were, So we're overloading. We were overloading
the predator at ninety five without without the air conditioner running.
Sometimes we'd get an overload alarm on that at ninety
five hundred, which is eighty five hundred running or whatever
(22:49):
it is. But it's seventy five hundred running. Yeah, so
you could basically run this generator on eco mode. We
got there. We haven't. We've been running this. We've been
with our air on. We're running EGO. Even with the
air it's still not drawn more than thirty and the
air is running all the time. Now, Yeah, it's it's crazy.
(23:15):
I can't wait till that goes out else the air
or the generator. I think that's the last piece of
equipment that hasn't been replaced on that trailer at least
once you still got that on him. Yeah, there is that.
I'm in no rush for a year and a half
(23:35):
in now since it's worked, and yeah, it's not been
an issue for us it's just really good for ringing,
that's all. Yeah, and we've been fairly lucky. But yeah,
I mean there were so many times where it was
raining hard or stormy that we pulled it in anyways
because the wind was you know, yeah, so and because
(23:58):
it has an automatic level or something, you always want
to tell the people, hey, don't stand in that corner, right,
that happened a couple of times. Huh, I'm confused. Well,
I could have sware. I got a notification that said
our ad was approved, I thought, and then when I
(24:24):
just went back to my Facebook page, it said there
was a problem. Well anyways, speaking of ads, yep, I
for the Father's Day thing, I did buy an ad.
I boosted my post. I realized that I made a
mistake on my post. I couldn't edit it. No, you can't.
(24:44):
I said Father's Day was Sunday, June sixteenth. Well, yeah,
it's close.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
So I did a Facebook live yesterday and somebody said
that I had a hater comment and I looked it up.
I looked up everything that I did and I could
not find any comments. And the person that said that
I had a hater comment said that the hater because
I said fathers get our dads get ten percent off,
(25:19):
and so do single moms. Just and so the one guy,
I guess he was like single moms too.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
You lost my business And then I couldn't find the
poster because I just wanted to say, well, maybe I
didn't want your business in the first place. I have
a soft spot for single moms. Moms and true to listening. Mh. Anyway,
(25:47):
just make sure you go the other way and when
you when you run Mother's Day specials, that you include
single dads, absolutely because they are out there. They are mhm.
Whatever you're doing, whatever you whoever you are doing right
by your children's absolutely. How's that institution looking, how's the what?
(26:12):
How's the in state tuition? Looking for alex decent? Good?
It's fine. I mean, I don't know, I don't know.
I'd be happier. I'd be happier if I didn't have
to pay Uh room and board for two years they
require now Michigan state for two years room board. They
used to be one yeah, uhould be one? Yeah, and
(26:33):
no it's two. Which room and board costs more than tuition?
Oh yeah, I have probably one thousand dollars a month.
It's not more nineteen a year, nineteen thousand school year.
So you're almost you know, you're seventeen hundred a month. Fish, Okay, damn, No,
(26:54):
you're talking August through May. Oh you don't even get
it for the full year. No, people don't aren't staying
in dorms over the summer. I don't know this. I
never went. I have never been either, but I know
that the school doesn't have students all year round. Where
do they live? They just go home?
Speaker 2 (27:13):
Yes, they get a new board, they get a new
room the next the next year they come back.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Yes, well I didn't know that. I don't know these things.
I'm sure, so yes, yeah, you're yeah, that's that's room
and board for mid August or late August to May.
So ten months, so nineteen eight months, August, September, October, November, December, January, February, March, April, May.
(27:48):
Thank you. I can at least count that off well
half a junior Jilier, half of August. So yeah, well good,
I'm happy. She's going to Michigan's now. Believe it or not,
Michigan is cheaper. It's really yep. Yeah, Alex's classes, So
(28:12):
tuition for her is going to be about eighteen seventeen.
I think seventeen to eighteen something like that. Ethan is
at sixteen for arguable, arguably a better education. Who's smarter Ethan?
Alex will tell you the same thing. She's she's a good,
(28:36):
self aware person, And yeah, Ethan is a Ethan is
very smart. He was I think twelfth in his class.
I think he just missed up ten and that's only
because he was doing I think his whole senior year
was all accelerated college credit classes. So yeah, bumped down
a little bit, but boo, I mean he was like
(28:56):
taking calculus to his senior year, so yeah, I mean
barely past basic math. He was twelveth in a class
of three and eighty or something like that.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
So this week we have the second half of the
what's called the SAE event. Last month it was the
combustion engine. This month is the electric Engine, where they
go to the track colleges from universities from all.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
Over the country. I think right now there was eighty
eight signed up this week and they basically just make
little mad and Max race cars. Yeah, kind of neat cool.
So I'm expecting a few catering orders just for that awesome.
That was that was our.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
Best week ever. When that was here, it was better.
The race week problem is all these events aren't on
the track website, so I'm finding out secondhand.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
So I want to get back to your your boosted post.
Oh yes. Oh. The other thing is, so I paid
one hundred and forty ducks. How long did you join for?
I tell ye, hold on June first to June fifteenth, Okay,
(30:16):
so yeah, your total per day was pretty low. Then
June first of the fifteenth, of fourteen days, you paid
one hundred and twenty, so you were less than thirty
huh one hundred and forty one and forty So you
were ten bucks a day? Is that what you said?
Your budgetet was ten a day? Okay? So I had
a total total number of views at like fifty for
(30:39):
just under fifty five thousand.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
My reach was twenty one thousand. Post engagement was thirty
six hundred and link clicks for three hundred and three.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
So it says that my.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
Cost per link click I think it was like three.
Oh it doesn't. It doesn't say what it was a
few detailed results. So yeah, our our one last week,
so we do about fail.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
Cost per engagement was four cents. Yeah, okay, per post
engagement you said four cents, that's pretty good. We're usually
around ten to fifteen. But and in my area, it's
a higher volume area, so I think, like Google ad Words,
(31:44):
we're going to pay more for the visibility because there's
so much more, you know. But yeah, for our weekly,
like our last week's post, we had seven hundred and
eight engagements, forty seven hundred reach in, fifty five hundred impressions,
and that's at fifteen a day. So for our daily budget,
(32:07):
I'm usually between fifteen and twenty is what I'll put,
just depending on how the previous weeks have been business wise,
Like if we have super heavy catering two weeks in
a row, we're only getting roadside in you know, two
or three days, and the rest of it's this odd
ball stuff that we're doing not our normal schedule. Like
if we have a week of that or two weeks
(32:28):
of that, like we'll bump up the boost to a
higher budget just to make sure people are seeing it
that we're back to normal schedule type of thing. So
this week we're doing twenty five a day, just really
trying to nail in all our roadside this week, So
my head, did you notice do you think do you
think it helped? Did it equate ten dollars in the store.
(32:52):
That's what the important part is. I think for our
opening day on a Sunday, Yeah, I think it definitely did.
I don't. I don't know how much Father's Day helped.
We did it. So we did a total of sixty
two transactions with an average ticket of almost forty four dollars,
(33:13):
which is I mean, I'd say it was really good.
Yea label the day your audio this went really weird. Well,
it's because your bag was doing something. You're reaching it
your back. Why does that affect your microphone because maybe
(33:34):
you can hear it. I don't know. You went into
a tunnel for a second. So our labor labor for
the day was seven percent. That was the three people
not including myself working, even though I work all right,
and we gave people ten percent off and we only
(33:58):
it equated to probably like one hundred and eighty dollars
in discount. Excellent. That's good. Button Yep. Gross sales is
twenty eight seventy two. Never worked for the year. Right now,
(34:22):
for the year, we're at just under twenty ok take it.
Oh for the year, Oh, we are at Our average
is thirty two. I've paid out thirty four thousand dollars
and labor cost. Labor cost since I started tracking, it
(34:49):
was four pointy four eight. But that doesn't include so
that only includes punched in time, so any episode like
Chris's salary, so that does not include his January through
mid March. Unfortunately, I wish it would. I might have
(35:10):
to have him start clocking in next next year at
the start of the year, but hopefully we'll have a
brick and mortar by then. So why not You're you're
going through Square.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
We already went through that, so you didn't. What do
you You're just simply running a payroll during during the
off months to pay him out.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
You're not. You're not putting in like hours like that
because it will automatically when you run the payroll, it
automatically puts him at forty hours, whether he's clocked interornet.
When you hire somebody, does Square do the online? I
do I do all that? Yeah, yep, okay, yeah, it's
five minutes to put someone in, you know, so I
(35:55):
Square handle all the rest of it. But yeah, I
don't like that. I mean, if they're hitting payroll, they
should hit your labor in my opinion. So yeah, yeah,
forty two hundred and thirty nine transactions. Huh, forty two
that's where I'm at. Forty two hundred. Forty two hundred
(36:20):
and what's forty two hundred? It's confused transactions. Forty two
hundred transactions is what you've done? Yeah, I looked at mine.
I forgot what it was. Let me find it real quick.
Let's see transactions. We're up, you're to date. That's a
(36:42):
nice zero point three two percent, y forty forty seven
seventy one. I'm up thirty seven percent totally. We I mean,
we really haven't changed our average transaction. It's like literally
forty a day. Yeah, some are higher, some they're lower,
(37:05):
but average, I know, if I'm doing forty, we're having
like a twelve hundred dollars day. Give it? Say? Are
you so? Are you getting pretty dialed in on like
meat production for so you like for me, we've talked
about before, like two bucks in a brisket on an
(37:26):
average day, we're going to be about a thousand, you know,
well not about a thousand and sales. Have you got
that kind of like, are you seeing any trends that
way that you can kind of do that? Yeah, we have. So,
like if you go to an event, you're like, okay,
our goal for this event is three grand. What are
(37:50):
you cooking? Depending it depends on the side of the briskets. Well,
of course, yes, but let's say average let's say average
average pork butts, average briskets, So eight pound pork butt,
twelve to fifteen pound briskets, I'm probably cooking it. Brisket.
(38:18):
Brisket goes faster, so I'm probably cooking, but you make
less money at it. Three to four briskets and probably
six porks. Okay, yeah, so you're about what al right,
would be then to try to get to a three
thousand dollars day. And like for like fs like Prime Festival,
we're not going to do meat by the pound. That's
all off the menu, so only sandwiches. Yeah, any of
(38:42):
our festivals we don't do to meat by the pound.
If you want just some meat, then yeah, we'll go
ahead and do a sandwich without a button for you. Actually,
Food truck Fridays we actually did. We allowed half pounds,
not full pounds, but half pounds and cyderwork o, what
(39:03):
like if you if you did start selling half pounds,
would you like alter your price?
Speaker 2 (39:12):
I guess so like we do so like nine we
charged nine to fifty a half pounds for like pork,
right or or nineteen a pounds. I market it on
the in the restaurant by the half pound, and people
will buy, you know, a pound and a half or
something like that. Do you think it'd be better beneficial
for you to do buy the half versus do it
(39:34):
by the full?
Speaker 1 (39:37):
Like do would you? Do? You think you'd see a difference.
Maybe somebody would order a pound and a half versus
like just a pound. We already have people that buy
a pound and a half, like we offer both a
half in full? Oh yeah normally so for like the
last week's Friday, we just took full pounds off could
only Yeah, do you charge? Do you give a discount
for a full? Yeah? Kinner? So half pound of brisket
(40:03):
is thirteen seventy five and a full pound is twenty seven,
So we're that's that twenty six twenty seven fifty so
fifty cents. Nothing's I mean crazy. The biggest is on ribs,
where we're fifteen and twenty eight, I think, So you're
(40:24):
gett another three bucks or two dollars discount at them.
So we're fifteen, we're actually fifteen and twenty six. So
you got a big discount. You got a four dollars
discount of yours. Yeah, so we did went through yesterday.
We went through sixteen re experts. Nice.
Speaker 2 (40:47):
Probably probably my girls. My girls on Saturday took pre orders.
So when I had it, when I got done, I
had to win the Walmart to get some because that's
the only place I can find them that are worth a.
Speaker 1 (41:00):
Damn Yeah, brisket prices are starting to continue to crime
where four seventy nine is what I paid today at GFS,
or four seventy five I think is when I paid
at GFS too.
Speaker 2 (41:13):
Well, let's see if Sam's changed, because Sam's has remained
the same for quite a while, they were four ninety eight,
or if we do a case, it was four seventy
eight for prime and four eighteen for choice. Okay today yep,
(41:33):
four eighteen for choice. Really according to the website, yeah.
Speaker 1 (41:39):
For seventy eight, so I'll probably go. Yeah, but they
still sell they still sell pork buds for two bucks,
and I've seen it as high as two fifty pound. Yeah,
so they make up four other places. But yeah, where
are you getting your ribs from? Gfs? You're buying the
frozen ones, or do them and they shook them in
(42:01):
for fish and they carry them.
Speaker 2 (42:04):
Mind, my only carry is frozen. Oh that's right, you're
doing tips. Never mind, you're doing the big spares. Yep, yeah, Yepan,
I don't even know. I don't even know if they
carry those.
Speaker 1 (42:18):
I don't remember. Yeah, I like the spars generally. We've
gotten some funky cuts on some of them. But the
only problem with doing the full spares is you're gonna
get more variation in size typically, so you're gonna get
some really short short bones. We're gonna get a couple
of racks of those typically in the case. So but
(42:38):
we mix and match for the bigger racks, you know,
so that everybody's getting about the same. But you always
love getting that getting that three pack and that unknown
middle one. So it's the middle one. Sam's dropped there.
There are two packs of full spares down to two
seventy eight pounds. If you buy it by the case,
it's a dollar ninety nine pounds. That's totally good. They
(42:59):
give it really big discount on their ribs. Yeah, I'm
not sure. I'm not sure what prices are at Costco
for brisket. I have not even been because they've been,
they've been a little bit higher than the cfs. But
last time I was there, Oh did I tell you
we checked out the the new Costco business center. You
did not tell me?
Speaker 2 (43:20):
So in Southfield they have a Costco Business center. It's
basically a Costco with more with probably more bottle no
pools or stuff like that, probably, yeah, no, no, like
no electronic sessions. Yeah, no clothes. So I really wanted
to go to see what their meat section look like
(43:40):
because supposedly you can get like wagon brisket and all
sorts of stuff. They had nothing, like it was cleaned
out really like I couldn't get anything, and their prices
weren't any different, I mean any different from regular Costco. Okay,
but I didn't have hour and twenty minutes for They
(44:02):
did have like restaurant supplies like your pans and stuff
like that.
Speaker 1 (44:06):
Which were kind of neat. But yeah, they didn't really
have a lot that was I would say worth me going,
you know, once a month or something. Like that. M. Yeah,
I'll have to check out my costco see what their
prices is. But yeah, every once in a while they
are lower. Oh what it must it must have been
(44:28):
a thing. Uh pork spare ribs by the case to
seventy four pounds all yeah, yeah, I didn't buy that.
I didn't buy the beef ribs from Sam's because they're
almost nine dollars a pound. So you can buy a
(44:50):
whole uncut cowboy steaks or the ribbi with the bones
thirteen forty eight pound uncut. H M. All right, that's it, everybody,
(45:10):
We're done. It's that time already, and I got stuff
to I gotta go pick up the cambros from everywhere. After.
Let my smoker, last thing. Smoker doing well? Which one smokers? Whatever?
Which are your whatever one? The new one? The new
(45:32):
one's going well? Yeah, when the rare times that we're
using it, Yes, that's going well. Oh we're still we're
still jugging along with all red all red. Oh isn't
that red? No? Oh black black? Betty is black? Yes, huh,
(45:56):
never named her. Oh that's right, girt, the problem child.
So yeah, I mean what it gets cooked on it
is phenomenal we're looking forward to. I tell you, we
did some stuff for the like some sides like bake
beans and stuff we've done on there, and man omen
(46:17):
man o, man can't wait to be using that thing
every day. So if it wasn't such a pain in
they asked to take stuff off that smoker and get
it onto the trailer, and that step like, yeah, we
probably would use some more.
Speaker 2 (46:29):
What's our next step is that? Is that one ever
going to be here? Are we just waiting for this
second order?
Speaker 1 (46:34):
Smoker gets installed July sixth, fifth, whatever Sunday is, it's
gonna put on on the back of the Yes, I'm
excited for you. Now, well good, I'm glad that you
were excited. So got to get that done. Got to
get the propane line installed as well. So trying to
(46:55):
line up, trying to line up all the people so
that now that the smoker has an install date, we
have to have the propane line also installed that weekend
so we can actually use said smoker and that would
be yeah. Otherwise it makes that week really weird. Full
top Anyways, all that coming up soon in the next
(47:17):
couple of weeks. Skippy, I hope you have a good
week we're gonna have a good week. I hope our
listeners have a good week. I can't wait to hear
all the sales numbers next week. Try not to make
you mad at me, but yeah, I'm never just uh,
I've heard lots of I hate you, so I mean,
(47:39):
I think we hear that a lot anyway. But it's
O good, all right, everybody have a good week, see
you later. Bye bye.
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