if you want to read the original thread, check this: https://nitter.net/tinymediaempire/status/1136992675742269440#m
If I were drunk, I’d probably get 300$ out of the ATM and laugh the entire hour or whatever it took…
Then eat like 10 and give the rest away to people.
10/10 dark af 1/10 sandwiches are rubbbery
Oh shit I thought it was a shopped picture just for the concept
it is, the designer/illustrator Daniel Danger did a render of both sides
Yeah after looking again I noticed that 😅
“Cash only. I don’t have Venmo because I’m not some teenage asshole who vapes”
That part got me haha
My gf and her friends are in their late twenties and vape, how old is this post?
Very.
2019
Very old
Zoomer genocide when
Zenocide?
I’m stealing that
2019
It’s definitely poking fun at the fact that people who vape are younger on average than those who smoke cigs, not supposing literally only teens vape.
Sort of like how lots of old people also use venmo, but it’s particularly popular among the young.
I’m middle aged and vape. A lot of us old-heads switched from cigarettes a long time ago.
People are actually in this thread discussing how feasible this is as if it were a real plan down to calculating specific costs and supporting them with URLs.
Never change, Lemmy.
Many of us do have this fantasy.
I’m sick of seeing $6 for a bag of fries and $12 for a basic ass sandwich.
I mean, it’s a bummer when the bougie burger places do this, but when the taco trucks and teriyaki shops near me started costing more than $2 a taco or $10 for a plate of yakisoba, I knew shit was getting hard out there.
Here in Canada we’ve got trucks selling 3 tacos for like $18. People here are out of their minds
My god. I mean, it’s probably a fair price to pay for no mass shootings and universal health care, but still wild.
$10 yakisoba???
I live in a small town in Oregon. A few years ago, it was $7. Now it’s $10.
Makes me wonder what people are paying for bread, Kraft cheese (or a knockoff of the same) and butter/margarine.
Seriously, a single grilled cheese shouldn’t be more than $1, it should be much less… At least in materials… The cost of grilling it and cleaning up and whatnot should still be really cheap. Even if you wrap the sandwiches in wax/parchment paper or whatever and serve it, you should still be able to make a profit per sandwich. Whether you would be better off doing this rather than getting a job at McDonald’s or whatever… That will depend on how popular the food truck is…
There used to be a vending machine in a hosiptal near me that would heat up a premade grilled cheese sandwich for £2. Being a vending machine in a hospital, they had to be making at least enough to cover the costs plus wastage. I’d say that somewhere with high footfall, especially on a cold day, you could make at least some profit from this.
A few years back in HollandN(UTRECHT) one shop actually ONLY sold sandwiches (not grilled) for a buck or so. They had LINES. Then shit got renod
None of this sentence makes any sense at all man
Just saying the concept works, ppl DO want a simply Sammy for a buck and the ingredients are less as 30% of sales price even with some real decent toppings. But renovation (and extreme rent) only allows multi nationals to compete at busy places like city central stations etc.
Gaslamp district in San Diego had a cafeteria like this years ago, guessing it’s no longer a thing, but simple cheap menu would have steady customers, maybe profitable, it’s the business development people who would oppose.
There was one in metro vancouver area, it was a store front. but it was just cheap grilled cheese nothing else. like costco hot dog pricing
It still there? I’m in downtown but go through metro enough it’d be worth knowing about
I no longer see it so maybe COVID lock down killed business
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
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.
You’d think that having 1000s of hungry people in one place would allow the to drop the price a bit
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.
for some reason.
Because useful idiots are proud to pay for it then complain they don’t have enough money.
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.
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.
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
I’m excited to introduce my latest business:
The $.99 Grilled Cheese Food Truck. Conveniently located next to the $1 Grilled Cheese Food Truck. Come with $1, leave with a grilled cheese and money still in your pocket (yes, we give change).
Honestly, from my experience with whole prices and no sales tax in Europe, I might just stay with the first truck.
I would go with the first truck specifically NOT to get a penny back.
Come to Canada, we got rid of pennies and legalized weed.
Welcome to the future!
If you sorted out the methodology one person could staff a changeless truck, you start giving change thats a lot of time.
Put this outside a good number of pubs in the UK and you’ll make an absolute killing. It would have to offer a £1 toastie, of course, but the principle is the same.
ACAB, my good chap.
Yeah, hi. I’m lactose and gluten intolerant and I was wondering if…
Yes you can fuck off with or without grilled cheese.
Yes you can fuck off with or without your face grilled
Fix’d
If you ever find yourself around Cleveland, OH, find a Melt: https://meltbarandgrilled.com/menu/
Melt is crazy good. Half sandwiches, vegan, gluten free, or full on grease and meat and dairy. I go once every time I visit Ohio. I’d go twice if I hated my body.
Why would anyone ruin a grilled cheese sandwich with a slice of tomato?
Sure, tomatoes bad, but have you tried jalapenos?
That does sound good
You two are the exact type of people to get kicked out of line at the grilled cheese truck.
NO GRILLED CHEESE FOR YOU! NEXT!
Lol that’s exactly what I thought of when I made my comment
Sure, but that’s a melt, not a grilled cheese
Why the fuck would I order a jalapeno melt at a grilled cheese truck?
Because tomatoes are the perfect fruit/vegetable and improve every single dish they’re in, without exception.
Don’t make me tap the sign again.
Except for grilled cheese
Lies! #tomatohate
Pickles on grilled cheese is the superior grilled cheese and everyone that says otherwise can go right to hell
I say otherwise, & I will happily bathe in the righteous flames of the eternally damned, rather than suffer the unholy blight of pickles on my beloved grilled cheese.
Probably got the bread soggy with their damned pickle juice too!
Beautifully written. This brought tears to my eyes and now my grilled cheese is soggy.
Juh-lah-pino juice, green olive juice
Anything other than bread and cheese is a melt.
Let’s keep it calm here, ok?
What about butter or mayo?
It’s not just important, it’s necessary.
Mom made them with a thin smear ofmiracle whip inside the sammy when I was little. So good. Never tried mayo. Gotta give it a whirl.
You can use it to crisp the outside instead of butter.
I’d heard of mayo on it,but thought it was just for flavor. I gotta try that soon.
Pickle melt
suppresses violence.
Anything else added to a grilled cheese sandwich automatically makes it not a grilled cheese sandwich.
I wanna open a beer garden the size of a parking spot next to it that sells cans of Rainier for a dollar out of a cooler and has a boom box and some plastic kiddie furniture. Party on.
Mount Near Beer!
Tacoma Corona
To be fair, I’d pay $5 for 5 grilled cheese sandwiches and eat them all in one setting.
There would be a line around the block. This is the grilled cheese of everyone’s childhood. Add a sprinkle of salt or use salted butter when cooking on the skillet and I would be in line with everyone else holding a fiver.
Salt? That’s it, your head’s going on the griddle.
Man, I’m so embarrassed for them.
Really? A very light sprinkle of salt when the sandwich is on the buttered griddle is the shit, especially if you’re using a cheese that is lower in salt. Get that nice crust on the bread with a savory pop. Combine that with a tomato soup and it’s the bomb.
Don’t knock it until you try it.
Edit: bloody purists. Gonna turn this into a melt/grilled cheese thing aren’t you.
You’re really asking for it, huh.
Tomato soup? Gonna have to flip your head over on the griddle. This is embarrassing for you.
(in case you never got it, read the right side of the food truck.)
But I didn’t say anything about a tomato!
(Yeah, I missed it)
Use a thin layer of mayonnaise instead of butter before putting it on the pan for a commercial-worthy grilled cheese.
I wonder if it have a vegan option.
Here’s your plain toast
Ah yes, the classic dish: Grilled Null Sandwich.
Well, it’s grilled cheese. You can remove the cheese yourself, see what I care.
Sure, I’d give you dry toast for $1.
I’d probably double that menu to include coffee.
No cream.
No sugar.
Take your coffee and grilled cheese sandwich and fuck off over thereabouts
What kind of combo is grilled cheese and coffee? Lemonade and grilled cheese, maybe.
Coffee is life.
There is nothing coffee doesn’t go with
What happens if i pay $1.50?
Do I get .50 back? Or do i get half a sandwich or do I just get bread or just cheese or a bread with cheese but not grilled?
Cyndi B @spintheiryarns 7 Jun 2019 Replying to @tinymediaempire
what happens if i give you $1.37
Daniel Danger @tinymediaempire 7 Jun 2019
i round down so you get one grilled cheese and i get a 37 cent tip and also i put you on a mental list for being a troublemaker
Read section: bottom left; No change given, sort out your own shit.
If you can pay someone $1.50, then you can pay them $1. You can’t even pull a “I don’t have a smaller bill” or other shit.
If you try to pay $1.50 then you’re just being a trouble maker.
I imagine they throw the coins back at your face along with the grilled cheese.
I was thinking maybe they bake the coins in with the grilled cheese . Who doesn’t live a chocking hazard/chipped tooth?
I thought that at first but that seems too artisanal.
Coin melt
He’ll make you two sandwiches, but he’ll take three bites out of one of them.
What happens if i pay $1.50?
Like Chelsea Handler and his other exes, you lost 50 cent.
