Kevin is checking in from the frozen midwest. More pics below…
Hey Steve,
Having a great time in Iowa selling the dogs from my E-Z Built Hot Dog Cart. 4 degrees this day with a lot of snow on the ground. Don’t let the weather scare you off. 3 hours, 300 dollars, gotta love a hot DOG on a freezing day…
Kevin Wilson
Weenie Hut/180 degree hot dogs.
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Most excellent and awesome Kevin – CONGRATS!!!
I spent a few years getting kicked out of college in Iowa and I can vouch for the cold weather there. 😉
I’ve seen lots of yellow E-Z Builts and lots of red ones but this is the first one split down the middle. I love it!
Let’s hear it in the comments for Mr. Wilson, folks…
-Steve
P.S. Happy Valentine’s day to all you red hot lovers!
(I’m talkin’ about hot dogs folks…get your minds out of the gutter!)
Congrats to you Frosty! 😉
Good luck to you and continue success, Kevin
Good money and you don’t have to worry about buying ice.
Have fun!! I close for the winter; it’s too darn cold. No fun. Glad you can hack it!!
The reason for the two colors is, I live on the border of Nebraska and Iowa. When Nebraska plays, I put the red side out. When Iowa plays I put the yellow side out. It keeps everyone happy around here…
$75 per degree!!!! I hope that holds up for you this summer. Let me know if it does…I’ll move.
Awesome, great job. I would be frozen solid.
Great Job! Great Idea! Live in snowy/cold NE Ohio…maybe I’ll do some winter selling…Thaks for the tip!
Hey Kevin,
Congrats! I’d like to know what you do to keep warm. Do you have a heater? I did one Xmas event and I froze.
I would buy a hotdog from you but I sure as heck would not sell my hotdogs in 4 degrees period. I hate cold anything below 60 degrees is cold. Lets see the 90’s again. Gotta love the south…………
Great to hear dogs sell in the cold. i am moving from california,( land of 10,000 dogs carts) to Minnesota, (Land of 10,000 frozen Lakes ! ) and am planning on starting my dog business. Thought my season might be just 7 or 8 months, BUT now you got me tink’n !! Thanks Kevin !!
When the world goes cold, Bold men take action! Keep up the good work!
instant commisary just turn around and stick it in the snow lololol
Kevin, Keep up the Dog Slinging. Iowa is full of Dog lovers. My wife and I have “Williams Weenie Wagon” in the great corn state. Keep your feet warm and the Dogs HOT! Best Wish’s
What great money . Makes it worth the cold.
Good job!
Janet
Way to go! I can’t get near MY place in the winter. They don’t plow the beach parking lot. And with THIS New England winter I don’t think ANYONE would want to tow a trailer!
Best to you and continued success! Love your cart colors!
I’ve even had kids say,”There’s nothin’ better than hot food in cold weather.” Keep on slingin’em Kevin.
Brrrr! I know how you feel. Every Saturday I’m at Sooper Lube. The last two behind a snow drift with only my umbrella showing ! Good luck Kevin!
Hey dude keep up the good work. Like steve says” if aint too cold for the customers it aint to cold for you”.
Yes, what Mitch said!!!!
Way to go buddy.
Way to go Keven! Who’s the man now! Love your cart!
Kevin – great – we are ALL about making the doggies for each customer – we are making similar money on a very quiet corner. Your cart looks great! Best of luck – the wiener girls!
Way to go Kevin! I’ve recently started slinging dogs with my EZ Built too. Keep up the good work!
Way to go! I sell dogs year around in Berne, IN!
great job there dogger,,,login in from western NE, thanks for thinkin about us Huskers, and as far as the cold…this is what we do,,,,,or we don’t do it.!!! It will be 105 degrees in a few months and we will do that too.
Great Job Iowa.
Luke
Brilliant idea with the two colored cart…….sports fans and hot dogs go hand in hand! Great job!
Erin
Get a jump start on the season. Great concept.
Layer up & hand them out. Spring will be here soon. Hang in there. I could go for a good dog about now !! Yum !! The cart looks great too!!
Kevin, that is awesome and truly encouraging. I live right down the road from you in Carter Lake and plan on having my E-Z Built cart up and running in about three weeks. I hope to stop by really soon to check out your operation and chow down on a couple of your 180 degree dogs. Also, I love your location right in front of the courthouse. CONGRATS Kevin and keep up the good work!
Great job Kevin,
Great location too. You will always have traffic in and out of the court house. Do you or have you tried selling hot drinks? Keep slinging them dogs!
Brrrrr.
I am happy to see a fellow dog slinger working it in cold weather. This upcoming winter season would be my first attempt at working my cart in cold wintery weather here in Denver, Colorado.
I was speaking to two other street food vendors recently and they both said that I would be crazy to try selling hot dogs during the winter season. I just nodded and thought to myself that I might be able to pickup a bunch more customers since these vendors would close up, just like so many other street food vendors.
Then I thought that maybe they could be right. Snow comes in quick here in my state, and the temps can drop even further due to the accompanying winds that force the snow to fly sideways.
I have been trying to find a different location and a closer commissary (and cheaper, or free – my commissary, currently, is a Pho restaurant and the owner began charging me significantly more $$ per week, as of two months ago) so that I don’t have to hook up my towable cart to my car or pickup truck everyday. The roads in winter would absolutely make my cart look very unappealing, to say the least. Plus, it would be sooo nice to just push my cart from a temp-controlled, fully-enclosed storage area near to where my new setup location would be. And, if the weather go too bad, I could quickly push my cart back into the building or storage area and close the door.
Speaking of wind and weather, my Vienna Beef umbrella finally gave up the ghost, so to speak. I had been making repairs to it just to get through the season. Finally, though, the wind completely destroyed it beyond any repair I could do. I opened the next two days, regardless, because it was the weekend (my best revenue days) and, as if fate was cursing me, my local health dept. inspector showed up and cited me (no warnings) for not having an umbrella or canopy over my cart. I did, however, have my cart backed up closer to the building to protect me from the occasional wind gust.
It was my fault. I just couldn’t get another umbrella quick enough that would fit into the specific-sized mount on the cart and I couldn’t erect my 12×12 canopy over my cart without encroaching upon a public right-of-way without a city/county permit (I work from a tiny paved area in front of a small strip mall, and at least 200-ft from other food vendors and restaurants, per city code). I gotta find a different location. Grrrr!!
Anyways, Ken, I would love some tips from you on working in cold, windy, wintry weather. Rain sucks too, not just the snow, but I just close up my cart for the day and go watch a movie or something, unless it looks like the rain will cease within the hour.
Thanks, Ken, and I wish you continued success in the cold weather.
Awesome! Way tha go Kevin. Keep them warm with those dogs.