Frankly speaking, business is booming at sidewalk vendor’s hot dog cart. Mike Sullivan had just been laid off from his job as a DHL deliveryman after some 15 years. The process-serving company he’d set up after his layoff was not making ends meet. The 55-year-old wasn’t sure what would, until he sat down to watch a movie. In the background of one scene he saw a man selling […]
UPDATE 9/10/09- MORE PICS!!! Renee, a customer of mine in South Carolina just wrote to let me know that she’s open for business. Awesome news Renee!!! She took her time getting going which isn’t a bad idea. I’ll let her tell you about it in her own words because I LOVE her attitude. […]
I have been getting a lot of emails recently from readers of Hot Dog Cart News asking me to check out their web sites. I really enjoy seeing how you folks are promoting your hot dog cart businesses online, which gives me an idea... If you have a hot dog vending business, and you have [...]
HDCN reader Andrew Sawyer tipped me off to these hot dog creations. There are some creative folks out there! Some of these are not hot dog cart – friendly, but they’re all worthy of home cooking for the family. Except for the last one – yuck! Here we go… Spaghetti Dogs – Looks like it was made in the Play-Doh Fun Factory press. The creation of this meal is actually not very labor intensive: Simply puncture slices of raw hot dog with uncooked spaghetti noodles and boil. […]
The archives section on this blog is not the greatest, so I've been cataloging all Hot Dog Cart News Back Issues on a separate page back at the mother ship, HotDogProfits.com. Check it out! -Steve
Thanks to everyone who participated in the contest last week. Man, did those comments come in fast! I was watching on my iphone from a restaurant near the beach. So I'm officially back from vacation. You know life is good when you can't wait to get back to work. I recently spoke with Rocky Marlow [...]
If you have already purchased Carts of Cash and think it's a good course, I would LOVE it if you helped spread the word about this contest. Please post about it in RoadFood.com or any other blogs or forums that might be relevant. Point them to www.HotDogProfits.com/blog Here are the Really Official Sounding Contest Rules: [...]
Debra Osborne is holding an 8 hour food safety class at the Carts of America showroom in Fort Wayne Indiana on August 24, 2009. This comprehensive training course prepares you to take the National Registry of Food Safety Professionals certification test which, upon completion, will certify you as an NRFSP Food Safety Manager. This course [...]
Hot dogs. The all-American food, right? Well, just like nearly every other aspect of our culture, what you put on a hot dog reflects where you come from. Luis Echeverry came to the U.S. from Colombia in South America, spending his teen years in New York. He moved here to work for Windstream. On the side he runs a hot dog cart at Plaza Fiesta, the Latino-themed mall next […]
