What would put you off from buying food from a mobile caterer i.e burger van?

a) price too high

b) catering trailer looking cheap

c) staff looking unhygienic

d) food being of poor quality i.e mass produced frozen products

e) no staff uniforms i.e staff wearning scruffy clothes like jeans and a football shirt!What would put you off from buying food from a mobile caterer i.e burger van?
I guess I have already answered this with the other question.

As I said then, if my Bacon Roll is well cooked, by a clean looking person in a clean trailer, then I am happy.



I do tend to look for the certificate or licence or whatever, issued by the local council, which is usually displayed, showing that the caterer has undergone some form of hygiene training. If that is not on show, then I do not go.
massed produced frozen products can be very good tasting and healthy. You just have to choose wisely. In any case, how the heck would a customer know unless they inspected your supplies??

Looking hygienic is important but more important is BEING hygienic.

High prices definitely would put me off unless the flavors were sooooo good I felt the cost was worth it. Thats where small samples come in when you first start out.

Scruffy clothes are okay as long as they are clean. Fancy uniforms are cool but they don't make the employees any better. Chose a color and go with that. I worked for years in an upscale bakery/bistro/ restaurant and black was the color for all servers and white was the color for all chefs. As long as the whites were clean and tidy, it didn't make any difference WHAT they were, within certain guidelines of course. No tank tops, tube tops, holes in shirts, ripped of sleeves, sleeveless, etc.

Fancy white chef coats don't make a good cook and I have seen plenty of them all funky and nasty in the front.

Clean clean clean is the key.

Anyone who is in food service is NOT impressed by some person wearing the plastic food service gloves if they are also touching everything with them.

Anyone in food service is also not impressed with that smell of old grease, a dirty apron, hair flying loose and not in a hat or hair net.What would put you off from buying food from a mobile caterer i.e burger van?
I was considering opening a mobile catering business I have many friends and associates in the trade, I am doing other business plans now.



Consider:

- ALL of the factors you said

- Different concept than your standard **** **** burgers yet still able to make a GP higher than 120% (minimum as its GOT to be higher food GP than restaurants which work on 75% GP because of drink sales too)

- Have perfect pitches ready for targeted customer base

- Be ready for work LONG HORRIBLE HOURS

- Pitches in large festivals are INCREDIBLY HARD to get. For the likes of Glastonbury and Bestival (large ones in the UK) your looking at a 5-7 year waiting list. Then over 拢10,000 for a pitch anywhere even near the main hustle and bustle. Then 拢13,000 plus for prime pitches.



I know if you get it right there is big bucks to be made....



A friend of mine works in Glaso, he pays 拢11k for his pitch but makes a NET profit (after tax and all expenses) of 拢20,000 for just over a weeks work.



Yet, this is extremely competitive market and there are thousands of caters aiming to be in my friends boots.



I am not trying to put you off, I am just trying to give you healthy scepticism the same I was getting.



Come up with a really decent concept and product and you can jump festival waiting lists and also generally attract more custom.



Only few select people (often with not much money) go to the greasy disgusting burger vans on the side of the road selling re-constituted aberdeen ANUS burgers from grimsby commercial farming estate injected with copious amounts of chemicals and binders to take the taste away form the cow *** thats inside them. Then fill them out with breadcrumbs!



People are wising up to whats in fast food, try to revolutionise what products should be considered fast food.... You can have that one for free, this is business knowledge that some people would pay very decent money for.
Everything about them I would never buy from a road side smack bar, You hardly ever see a fridge and usually there are buckets of onions left on the floor so all the scraps and flies can get into them also the fact there is little cover so your having a burger with extra protein like flies and daddy long legs mmmmm tasty.



Nah they just dont do it for me i would rather go to maccy D's and even then I feel violated after that.
cleanliness and scruffy staff
Common sense