Hot Dog Cart Business Opportunity

You can grow your business as fast as you want. If you want to grow your business even bigger you can do it with employees, partners or even subcontractors that operate your carts for you. This is truly a scalable business. It can be as big as you want it to be.

You can make a lot of money. While your not going to become a millionaire from a single hot dog cart we know operators that make as much as $250,000 a year in the hot dog business with just a few carts in good steady locations.

This business is fast to start. You can usually start your own hot dog cart business in less than 30 days. This is one of the best businesses in the world to be in because you can start at the very bottom and work your way all the way to the top just by pure ingenuity, hard work and sweat equity. This is one of the few businesses known to man where somebody with limited education and limited business knowledge can actually make a $100,000 a year. More than most newly graduated attorneys!

You can make money your very first day. This is an all cash business too! And if you follow our guidelines you could make back 100% of your investment in your first 6 months. 

The hot dog cart business can be started on a shoe string budget. But if you do it yourself and go cheap, you have a 1% chance of making it. Those aren’t our statistics. That’s right from the Department of Business Affairs. And the reason 99% fail is because they didn’t contact us first. Okay we’re pulling your leg a little here, but the truth of the matter is, if you’re going to go into business for yourself, why take the chance of failing. Do it the right way. If you don't you could lose your entire investment and become another "we told you so" statistic. 

You can’t afford to learn as you go. Most people can’t afford to learn from their mistakes. When you are out there doing it on your own and messing up every day, it doesn’t take long before you give up and you become one of the statistics mentioned earlier. Do you know how many people have tried to become hot dog vendors and have failed?  THOUSANDS! So don’t be a "dummy" and think you can do this on your own, when we can set you up in business the right way. With no franchise fees and no royalties! We can’t guarantee your success, because that part is up to you. We’ll give you everything you’ll need to get you on track to making $100,000 or more a year in this business. But if you don't have the motivation or the self discipline, or if you're down right lazy, you’re never going to be successful at anything! 

The hot dog business lets you be your own boss. Unlike almost any other business in the world the hot dog business is completely portable. You can open when you want, close when you want, move when you want, and sell to who you want to sell to. It’s completely up to you. And you can change in a moment’s notice.


Now, just think of another business that has that flexibility. There aren’t many. You get to be your own boss. You call the shots and you're in control of your own future and your own destiny. In the hot dog business you can set your own hours. If you want to work mornings, afternoons, lunches, or just weekends, you can. You make the decisions yourself.

You Don't Have To Quit Your Current Job.  A lot of hot dog vendors only work weekends, some only work events. They start part time and keep their own jobs. It's really up to you.

There aren’t very many businesses that you can set your own hours in, but the hot dog cart business is one of them. One of the most successful hot dog carts we've ever seen serves stuffed pretzels from 7am to 10am to the breakfast crowd, then switches to hot dogs from 10-2pm to catch the lunch hour traffic. That sounds crazy to a lot of people but once people get used to it they love it. There are ways to tweak your cart out for different times of the day depending on when you want to work and we'll show you exactly how to do it.

One couple we know from upstate New York works their cart 8 months of the year and spends the winters in Tampa. They make more money in eight months than their friends do in 2 years. Another operator from Florida takes off 6 weeks each summer for his cabin in the Canadian rockies. 

This Business Is So Easy Anybody Can Do It.  The hot dog cart business is easy work. It's not technical and it's not complicated and anybody can learn to do it in just a matter of a few days training. And learning the trade secrets! Plus, it's really not hard work. Once you’ve got everything ready in the morning it takes about 30 or 40 minutes to set up your cart. After that, until you get really busy, it's a pretty relaxing job. 

People are usually in a really good mood when they get a hot dog, especially if you make them feel good and put a little smile on their face. You can be animated and have a good time in your business.  Not only is that the best way to be, it's the way that's going to make you the most money. People who buy a hot dog from a hot dog cart vendor want to be cheered up. They want to be reminded of old times when things were better. And for a lot of people nothing is better than buying a good tasting hot dog off a hot dog cart. Sometimes it's the highest point of their day.

Talk About A Low Stress Business!  The hot dog cart business isn’t emotionally or mentally challenging. It's a low stress business. No corporate pressures, politics, worrying about who is going to stab you in the back today. All that is gone. It's a low stress job where you can just have fun and enjoy life. You don’t have anybody breathing down your neck or anybody that you have to listen to. No demands. No quotas to meet. No unreasonable expectations. No stress. What a great business!

Hot Dogs Can Be BIG Business. 
Believe me, once people see you making a lot of money in the hot dog cart business there's going to be more and more people that want to come help you. It’s one of the great things about the business. You can choose who you want to work with. You're in total and complete control. Plus, the hot dog cart business leads to bigger and better things. You meet people everyday that you can use to network and joint venture with depending on what kind of business they're in.

Big Secret #1  Location, Location, Location

The single biggest success factor in this business is location. You'll learn about the best locations to look for when you are ready to expand, such as busy Downtown areas; Industrial locations near factories and parks; Construction sites where new homes and buildings are going up; Schools and universities; Events, fairs and festivals

Click here to see a complete list of locations to look for in your area and how to go about securing them. We will get your initial location; however, you should know what to look for and where to expand your business if and when you are ready. We'll teach you how to crush your competitors without spending a single penny in advertising. You will learn, scripted, exactly what you need to say when people walk up to (or by) your carts to get the maximum sale from them. What you need to say and do to make your customer feel good that he enjoyed his experience. Because, if he did, he'll be back. And more importantly he'll tell his friends! You'll also learn about our free sampling technique that brings in more return on the dollar than any other form of advertising.  

Big Secret #2  Getting a Commercial Kitchen for Free. In most states you're going to be required to have a commissary partner, somebody that you work with to clean up your dishes at night or clean up your pots and pans at night and your equipment, and to store some of your foods. Not to worry, that's our job. We've got it handled. And if you're thinking you'll get a restaurant to share their space with you, good luck. It's probably not going to happen. People have tried it many times, even offering big money. It just doesn’t work.

Big Secret #3  Amazing Hot Dog Recipes. All new operators are welcome to come to our ongoing training sessions at Hot Dog University. Here you will learn how to cook and dress your hot dogs, along with everything else. We'll also share our famous hot dog recipes as well. This is vital information as each part of the country has its particular likes and dislikes when it comes to their hot dogs.

We're going to talk about the size of the hot dogs, whether you should sell six inch, eight inch, ten inch, big, medium or small. Every part of the country has different tastes! We'll teach you what kind of hot dogs to buy, what ingredients should be in them and even the brands that you should carry in your area. You will learn what temperature to keep them at, how to precook your hot dogs so that you can move faster when you really get busy. You'll learn what buns people like the best.

We'll teach you about condiments and the exact brands that you need to carry, what you should give away and what you should sell for extra money. This is one of the areas that is really overlooked by most hot dog cart vendors and on an average cart you can make 50 or 100 extra dollars a day just in ad-ons. You are not required to buy your supplies from us, but once you compare prices you'll soon find our volume pricing beats every competitor out there.

Big Secret #4  Winning Add-Ons & Upsells.  We are going to teach you what drinks to sell, not just the canned sodas, but other drinks as well. Some vendors carry a gourmet coffee line. Others do extremely well selling slushies or snow cones. These are items you can add on later once you get your speed up. You'll learn all the fast food secrets. How the simple phrase, "Would you like fries with your order, sir?" doubled McDonalds sales overnight.

We'll talk about exactly how to handle your cash, what to do with your money, how to price your products and how to make change. Believe me, when you’ve got 20 people standing in line waiting for a hot dog you don’t have time to make change slowly. People will usually only stay at your stand for five or ten minutes and then they’ll just turn around and leave. If you don’t learn how to make hot dogs quickly and make change quickly you're going to lose and we're going to teach you both. You'll be able to make hot dogs and make change like a pro by the time you're finished.

Big Secret #6  Making The Regulators Love You

Next we’ll talk about the nitty, gritty stuff, such as fire laws, licenses, and permits. You should expect to spend a couple of hundred dollars (depending on your area) on these but we'll walk you through exactly which ones you need, which ones you don’t and how to please all the officials that you have to deal with during the day. We’ll talk about things like liability insurance which is really only necessary if you're doing big venues or contracts somewhere.

Big Secret #7  Finding Great Employees & Partners.

Next we'll teach you about how and where to find great employees. Remember employees can make you or break you. We'll show you how to do it right. Whether to work with employees, partners or sub-contractors. How to find good help. How to pay them and how to keep them.

Although this is one of the greatest business in the world and relatively easy to get into, it is competitive and there are a lot of mistakes you can make. The biggest competitor you have in this business is YOU. You making big mistakes. Once we set you up in business and train you, you would have to deliberately go out of your way to fail. The only way you can really get in trouble in this business is just by doing things that are incredibly stupid. Sometimes you can overcome them. Many times you can't. Consider for a moment if you served the mayor's wife a tainted hot dog because you were too cheap to throw out (or give away) the previous day's leftovers? How easy is going to be for you to survive in that town?

If you don’t have your own business right now, the security of owning your own business, being able to go out and make your own money without somebody standing over your shoulder is one of the greatest things in the world. Many of the original folks in the hot dog business never went to college, never had a formal education or any business experience, but that is changing. As the word is getting out about what a great business this is, more and more of the "white-collared' crowd are joining the ranks. And can you blame them? Where else can you make $100,000 a year working 4 hours a day with little or no stress? Hot dogs are just that good a business but no matter how much you tell people, they just typically don’t believe you. But that's okay. We don't want everyone knowing. Which brings to mind, the tip jar. Remember the vendors in Albany NY. They have a tip jar on their cart which brings in an average of $35 a day, over $5,000 in 8 months. That's their "mad money" used while vacationing in Florida.