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I want to be able to run little food operations like this without having to jump through legal hoops to do it.
Without the legal hoops, a big company would undercut all privately owned food trucks, park theirs on bike lanes, employ subcontractors with slave wages and mix sawdust into the cheese.
Nah, those regulations benefit the large scale operators, as the economy of scale distributes the cost of these things over a larger number of venues. Plus you know the right officials to rub elbows with so regulations go in your favour.
Without the legal hoops I’d be able to outcompete everyone else in the market because my food kicks ass
Cheese with butter 🤮. Even thinking about it is making me shudder.
Lactose intolerant?
how do you do your grilled cheese?
edit: fixed a typocut two holes into the grilled cheese, then you and a friend go to town on that mfr
Could save time by just cutting one hole. It would have to be a good buddy though.
Agreed, though the “good” stipulation is often optional for some.
I know butter is the standard, but a few years back someone said I should use mayonnaise as the spread. Way easier to spread it evenly and I feel like it doesn’t get burnt as quickly. I was skeptical at first, but now it’s my go-to. Don’t knock it till you try it.
This comment made my throw up in my mouth a little
If you think about it, mayo is just egg with oil and a tiny amount of vinegar.
It’s honestly not as bad as it sounds. It’s not even super obvious it was grilled with mayonnaise. It’s obviously different than butter, but not bad.
slightly eggy as a bonus(?)
What’s hard to spread about butter? Whaddya doing using fridge-cold butter?
my partner actually likes hers with mayo as well. personally, i like to use bacon grease for mine though. but butter is definitely the standard.
I remember thinking that sounded a little off the first time I heard about it. But also had the same reaction. I’ll still use butter if that’s what we have, but I’d rather use mayonnaise now.
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Dp?? Whaasat?Dynamic programming
a typo. meant to write do. fixed now. thank you and sorry for confusion
I don’t eat grilled cheese and I don’t know what DP means.
Sometimes, when I wonder what people are typing, I look at the keyboard and see that the letters are adjacent and give them the benefit of the doubt.
Also sometimes, I enjoy grilled cheese sandwiches and I have to wonder what it is that would make someone so sad as to not eat them on what seems to be principle? Cause cheese and butter is delicious and is the basis of basically all french cooking and if you don’t like it, I have to assume that you are a tears and coffee as a staple kinda person.
I have to assume that you are a tears and coffee as a staple kinda person.
Hey man, no need to drag my daily breakfast into this.
I’ll take fourty one and a half, please.
Here’s forty, and takes a big bite a half. Now gtfo, next!
This post makes me want grilled cheese, but I don’t have any bread right now and all the stores are closed because Thanksgiving.
Okay but this is a little too boring. Add upcharges for vegan cheese, better bread and tomato and basil, maybe garlic, oregano… you’ll still have a killer profit AND product.
I certainly like simple foods with bright, bold flavors. Though I use a shitload of spices. I get hot salsas and blend them smooth.
can anyone explain how this is about autism it seems just like a shitpost to me
A lot of autistic people like their food super plain and simple.
The image is a shitpost. It is reposted here as a starting point for discussing whether people prefer foods to be simple, which is autism related.
I’ve gotten more adventurous in my eating over the years (thanks in part to my wife) but there are still days when all I want is a bowl of steel cut oats with a little salt, cinnamon, and honey. Or maybe oats with eggs and a bit of sausage. Just simple, honest peasant fare.
My issue is that I seem to only like about 5% of ingredients. So that gets exponentially out of hand pretty quick the more ingredients something has. Although not every “wrong” ingredient immediately ruins something. Some are tolerable, and some even completely redeem themselves in specific combinations.
So basically, more ingredients just vastly complicates things. When I find a complicated food that I do happen to like, I lock it down and make sure I can make it exactly the same every time so that it never potentially slips out of that comfort zone. Cuz it really sucks when you put an hour or more of work into something and then finally take that first bite, and either have to give the rest away or throw it in the garbage.
lots of people here are defeating the whole purpose of the post
What if i walk up with hundreds of dollars?
Seems like you’re getting hundreds of grilled cheese sammiches. (Sort yourself out)
According to the top half.
You either hand over a single dollar, or you’re about to give the best tip ever 😁
Grilled cheese - $1
you give me $5 youre getting 5
If the linear relationship holds, it should extrapolate to hundreds of sandwiches.
$1 won’t cover your costs in 90% of America. Go $3 call it good. How do I invest?
I’ll take your money if you’re throwing it away. A truck like this would thrive only on opportunism, no one is traveling to get this food. Having it be cash only would absolutely kill it.
Not necessarily. If it’s really good it could be a novelty but more likely yeah it’ll be put up near a bunch of low wage jobs in the daytime and near a bunch of alcohol selling establishments at night. Dirt cheap fast street food is a thing for a reason and there’s a reason it’s all basically this
Burrito trucks in the Silicon Valley. The proper one’s, where the Mexican low wage workers go. I was on quite good terms with the Mexican custodian of the facility I worked at (in the heart of the valley), and he pointed me to some of the really good ones. Usually, the best bet is to find a construction zone, there’ll be a few trucks out, depending on the size. The trucks are plain white (no ads or decals or anything), no billboards etc. And they have one thing usually (with a tiny bit of variety). Burritos (choose between three meats, get patatas or not), Tamales (literally just the one kind), etc. And they were all buck cheap. IIRC the burritos were 5 bucks (that was 2010/11?), and it was an unspoken rule that you paid in exact change.
The one burrito truck had a short stint on my workplace’s campus, together with a Mongolian buffet truck (you went in the front, got stuff from the buffet, went out the back, weighed it, done) of similar shadiness, and they were a huge hit. The workplace soon however decided that those were not good enough (some regulations whatever), and over night they banned them but got in the colorfully painted ones with the punny names (“BBQeue - you get it? Because you stand in line for so long?”). Now you’d pay 15 bucks for half a sandwich and a cup of soup.
Hail corporate…
Agreed. I work in foodservice and even with my employee discount, I’d absolutely walk a block or two to get this on my break for $3.
Yeah my career keeps me in factories and there are food truck rotations at some. If Tuesday means there’s a $1 grilled cheese you bet your ass most people are looking forward to that cheap greasy sandwich all day Monday
this would thrive only on opportunism
Yeah, I went to a Phish show at the gorge once and there were at least four cheap grilled cheese operations on shakedown street (their ad hoc, unsanctioned shopping area.) I don’t think anyone was as cheap as a dollar, but they were close (3 for $5?) and none of them took plastic.
There were massive lines every time I walked by and the sheer robotic precision of the guys working the griddle was amazing. They had it set up so they were making batches of ~20 at a time, and new bread went on as soon as the last batch was finished. They were still going after the show got out.
So it’s doable, but you have to be able to go where Phish fans are and tolerate them all day.
Instructions unclear, banned from the aquarium
Are you being downvoted by Phish fans? I’ve never even heard of them. I might try grilled cheese at an aquarium though
I say go to $5 and use high quality ingredients like aged cheddar and sourdough bread. Otherwise the same.
Miss
Exactly. Panera can afford to feed their grilled cheese (fresh American cheddar on baked-in-house miche) with a cup of soup to employees for $3.70 ($7 for general public). So $5 for just the sandwich is absolutely feasible. Might get more customers and increase profit at $3 though, you’d have to experiment with discounts, figure out how many customers certain areas have, etc.
See, that’s a different kind of truck. This is a truck for generic white bread and kraft singles. I can appreciate both, but it’s like, when I was a kid, my mom bought all kinds of quality sandwich ingredients, and that was cool, but sometimes I wanted to go to my neighbor’s house and have a balogna on wonder bread with miracle whip.
Butter and no tomato? This is outrageous
Outrageous
They just recreated NYC dollar slice pizzeria.
