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Id love to see food trucks that were dirt cheap and just did 1 food. Please park this grilled cheese truck outside my house
I went to a food truck festival a few weeks ago, and holy shit the prices of stuff. I don't think there was a single item you could get for less than $18, and that was like the price of three french fries.
Yes but they were artisanal french fries
Unless they're made by autistic cloistered monks from potatoes grown in the Pommes de Terre region of France, they're not artisanal, they're just sparkling oil dipped potato strips.
Yeah that's how it is here. Food trucks are only at events and event food costs a fortune for some reason. You'd think that having 1000s of hungry people in one place would allow the to drop the price a bit but nah gotta squeeze us for everything.
That's the sound of market demand going up, baby!
TBF food trucks are insanely expensive (like, $80K+ expensive) so I don't really blame owners for charging whatever people will pay. I'm just amazed people pay that much.
Yeah classic food truck venue here is an event at a brewery where they're legally required to serve food. So you buy tickets and then provide to the vendors, but if you work out the prices it ends up being insane with super small quantities. They always have to make the food weird too, sometimes it's cool but sometimes you just want normal shitfood.
I wanna do one where it's like simple lowbrow stoner food done just a little fancy. Like grilled PB&J, but the peanut butter is the good stuff and the jam has the full berries in it, sourdough bread that can really take a heavy fry in some salted butter. The kind of stuff that's dirt simple to make but really shines with a bit of extra love.
Because useful idiots are proud to pay for it then complain they don't have enough money.
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In Colorado, that has been my experience for over a decade. Food truck food was never cheap here. In Portland, just this year, I managed a few great and cheap meals from their food carts.
Trucks that do 1 or 2 foods are not that uncommon. We have a fish and chip truck and a glazed donut truck. But none are cheap.
This is the real kicker. Businesses charge what people are willing to pay, not what stuff costs to produce.
In my city: there was two stoners who ran around making three types of ramen - vegan, non-vegan (their broth is a different), and regular (they crack an egg).
It was like $6-7.
I loved those guys and used to follow them around.
Imagine paying $6 for noodles.
They probably loved you, lol.
A ramen groupie