The #1 Hot Dog Cart "How To" Guide
Hello Steve,
I am just writing to tell you how excited I am to have started my hot dog business.
I live in a small town of about 3500 people called Grande Cache nestled in the Rocky Mountains of Alberta Canada. This past weekend I took delivery of my Willy Dog Hummer and got right to work.
I set up outside the local grocery store without any notice or Continue reading “Mike Made $800 In His First 7 Hours In Business!”
Larry Helveston just sent me an amazing email. Here it is:
Steve,
Well I finally finished my cart. After over a year researching the business, I decided to go ahead and make the plunge. It’s been a labor of love to build my cart, because by no means am I a carpenter.
I’ll never be able to thank you enough for the courses you developed in “Carts of Cash” and the “E-Z Built DVD’s”.
First of all I’m a chiropractor by profession for 29 years. My wife and I have a home practice and I also have a tremendous amount of mowing to do twice a week here at home. The medical profession is going down the tubes fast and has become unenjoyable and not very profitable anymore, hence the hot dog business!
I’m looking so forward to starting a new and exciting all cash business where I don’t have to fight insurance companies anymore!!
For those of you thinking about this business, don’t even attempt it until you read Steve’s “Carts of Cash” book in the Hot Dog Profits Premium course, it’s the bible of the hot dog business. If you are thinking of building your own cart, please get Steve’s E-Z Built Hot Dog Cart videos (also included in the Premium course), they are priceless. If I can do this, and believe me I made many mistakes, then anyone can build their own cart.
I learned a lot during the construction and I’m pleased the way it turned out. I’ve got about $800.00 bucks invested in it, and I’ll make that back in no time.
Good luck and prosperous doggin to ya.
Larry Helveston
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The E-Z Built cart was designed from the beginning to be super easy to modify. That’s why you see so many versions of them (click here for photos). The side serve set-up like Larry just built is really catching on!
The plans do not specifically detail the side serve version, simply because it’s so easy to do. After you watch the videos you will know how to build the whole cart, therefore you will know how to modify it.
To build a side serve version, just stretch the cart body to accommodate an extra cooking station if you wish, and rearrange the upper cabinet placement. Easy peasy, double cheesy.
You can watch me build an entire E-Z Built Hot Dog cart from start to finish in the videos and see for yourself. After you see me build one, you’ll be able to customize yours any way you want to.
Beautiful cart Larry, you certainly did a great job. And I LOVE your logo!
Here are more pics of Larry’s unbelievable, super cool hot dog cart. Click the pic for a larger version…
And let’s give Larry some high fives in the comments!
-Steve
I worked a birthday party recently and served a bunch of really nice kids and their families. It was a great day. Hot, but still a lot of fun.
Tip: When you’re working a kiddie party bring a lot of ketchup and napkins 😉
After lunch was over the ladies Continue reading “Ketchup Fest 2010”
Awesome, awesome, love it, love it, love it!!!
Bob and Susan Darr purchased my E-Z Built Hot Dog Cart Video and Plans Package (now included in my HotDogProfitsPremium.com membership) and learned how to build steam tables, make sinks, run plumbing and electric, and everything else they needed to build their own hot dog cart.
Except they didn’t build a hot dog cart. They built a super-cart!
Starting with an old pop up camper, the Darrs gutted it and transformed the shell into a hot dog cart on steroids. With a top that comes down to seal the interior, the Darrs can tow their hot dog trailer anywhere and store it without worries.
Bob writes…
Steve,
I used your cart building system almost to the letter. As you can see, I doubled the stove capacity inside the pop-up to satisfy the need to create the volume needed for festivals and still have the single use for other times by only using one side.
This area is a golf paradise (Pinehurst) and near Fort Bragg (huge military complex). I think the red, white and blue and the chosen name of “Victory Hot Dogs” will work well.
Bob
Ingenious, super cool, I totally dig it! I can hear a lot of mental gears turning out there in reader land, including my own.
You have sooo0 much room with this platform. You could add a fridge, flat top grill, BBQ grill, smoker, shave ice machine, generator, whatever you desire.
Old pop up campers are everywhere and the ones with trashed canvas and interiors can be had for a song. If you want to do what the Darrs did, grab a copy of my E-Z Built package here and get started.
Oh yeah – send me pics when you’re done!
Great Job Bob and Sue!
-Steve
Click the pics for a larger version.
Do you have a log on your cart?
O.K. Not that kind of log. Although my E-Z Built cart did start life as a tree…
Dave writes,
Does anyone out there use a Daily Cart Log? Something that records product sold by type, $ sales, weather conditions or other events that may have had a positive or negative impact on sales that day, etc.
If you have something I’d love to see it.
How ’bout it? I must admit I never used one but it sounds like a no-brainer rockin’ good idea now that you brought it up Dave.
Any of you recording your daily operations in a log or journal? If so, what are you using?
Let’s talk about it in the comments!
-Steve
OK you don’t really get a chicken dinner. I just like saying, “Winner, winner, chicken dinner!” Try it, it’s fun… See?
Michael has decided to stay with his own name, “The Green Weenie”. But don’t worry, he picked a runner up and I’ve decided to award a prize to the person who came up with it.
Winner, winner…
CINDY W – for the name, “Paradise Dogs”
Cindy, choose your prize from the following list:
HotDogBiz101 Platinum Package
E-Z Built Hot Dog Cart Video and Plans Package
Cash Tracker Bookkeeping Software Activation Code
Dog Sled
Chip Clips (2 pack)
Then shoot me an email at steve@HotDogProfits.com. Let me know what you want Cindy, and where to send it.
So here’s the updated pic of Michael and Mary’s cart with their logo graphic.
Nice! I really like the clean and simple look, especially on the green background.
Winner, winner, chicken dinner. Once you say it it’ll be stuck in your head for at least 24 hours.
Winner, winner, chicken dinner. Winner, winner, chicken dinner. Winner, winner, chicken dinner. Winner, winner, chicken dinner…
Sorry about that.
-Steve
Holy smokes! This is the “greenest” cart I’ve ever seen, and I mean that literally.
The first step in the sales process is getting folks to notice you and Michael Lane’s newly finished E-Z Built Hot Dog Cart is guaranteed to stop customers in their tracks.
I think it’s gorgeous! But what should he call it? Here’s Michaels email… Continue reading “Contest: Help Michael Name His Hot Dog Cart Business.”
This just in from HDCN reader Martial Purdy:
On the Fly, Washington, D.C.
On the Fly offers quick healthy bites served from SmartKarts — zero-emissions, plug-in, American-made trucks. The menu features a wide variety of natural, organic locally produced food for $5 or less including veggie tacos, turkey chili and mac and cheese. Find the trucks at top tourist destinations like on the National Mall or near the Washington Nationals’ stadium.
Thanks Martial!
So – what do you think? Is a Smart Kart in your future? Let us know in the comments…
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