More shenanigans and tomfoolery happening here at HDCN... Do you have tee shirts for your hot dog biz? If so, send me one (yes, an XL please). I'll wear it here on HDCN on our new segment that I'm calling Free Shirt Friday. Include a short blurb about your hot dog cart biz and I'll [...]
Just a quick reminder. You can find an index of all the HCDN back issues at our home base www.HotDogProfits.com, or just click the link below... Hot Dog Cart News As of this writing there are over 175 articles, podcasts, interviews, and videos for you to cast your eyeballs (and earballs) on. Enjoy! -Steve
HDCN reader Robert Lessnick has opened "Awesome Dogs"! After getting shagged out of his first spot (gotta check those zoning laws), Robert got an even better location the second time around. Must have been meant to be! Day one saw decent sales, but what was even more encouraging was the number of people who showed [...]
The following is a guest post by HDCN reader Tony Skulitz: We've been covering some advanced stuff lately but I think it's time to review some of the basics. A brush up if you will. I wrote this to try and explain a few things to the hot dog vendors out there. To all hot [...]
What can a hot dogger learn from a pancaker? This morning we had a pancake breakfast at church, catered by a company called Chris Cakes out of Kansas City. Talk about creating a customer experience - this was off the charts. They set up a huge flat top griddle and had a machine that poured [...]
Your tip jar, that is! I did an article on tip jars a while back, but I never got pics from my own readers until now. Renee emailed me a pic of her tip jar yesterday and I thought it was cool and creative. Show me your tip jar! Send a pic to [...]
Japadog definitely has a USP - Unique Selling Proposition. In other words, they have given people a reason to buy from them instead of the all the other "same old" hot dog carts. The USP allows them to sell at a premium price point. You can tell by the long lines that people will pay [...]
Hi Steve Well it's just about done, all there is to finishing my hotdog cart is waiting on my signage. I'm calling my new retirement job the "Checkers, Street Grill". I still can't believe how easy your instructions were to follow and then borrowing a few ideas from some of the other hotdoggers that have [...]
Open only a little more than a week, the Red Bluff hot dog cart Danny Dogs is becoming the place to go for a quick lunch. "This is cool for somebody on the go like me," said Don Roach of Red Bluff, owner of Roach's Plumbing. "You can't beat it." Owner Danny Tannehill said many [...]
