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So my dad is thinking of buying a cotton candy machine. Here's his plan.
>1. Sell Trans-Am for as much as he can
>2. Buy high quality cotton candy machine, vendor's license and supplies for cotton candy (he says that apparently it costs 2 cents to make a bag and he plans for to mark up to $6 bucks a bag)
>3. Go to some popular event with cotton candy machine
>4. Have us (there's four of us) go around and sell a fuckload of bags of cotton candy.
>5. Give half of profit from each runner to him, keep half for ourselves (he says most of it is being banked for more cotton candy supplies).
>6. Repeat 3-5 over the summer
>7. ???
>8. Profit!
At the waterfront on July 4th, he says we may sell 5000 bags, which turns out to be $3750 for each runner.
So, /biz/, I want to know how this is too good to be true and how much I'm getting screwed over, because I'm skeptical as fuck.
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>>1940981
>$6 a bag
Dreaming m8
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cotten candy sucks honestly. but i could go for some snowcones. have a high tier organic snowcone and charge a dollar extra.
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You should be skeptical. If you sell 5000 bags in one day, that's over 8 bags per minute, every minute for a 10 hour day. Just the time it takes per transaction makes this estimate retardedly impossible. It's never gonna happen, especially at $6 per bag. No one likes that awful shit. What's the most you've ever paid for a bag of it?
You should tell your dad about this website, that way he can just lose money on retarded memecoins instead of ruin your holidays with his half-baked business ideas.
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>>1940981
> won't sell for more than $3
> can't be on ant private property
> vendors license may run a few hundred
> be lucky to sell 20 per day each
So you'll pull about $28/day if split 5 ways. 8/28= $3.5/hr
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I'd like to see this magical cotton candy machine that can output 5000 bags of this shit per day. People aren't going to pay $6 for old garbage you made the week before, it'll have to be fresh, that's the only way you could trick hipsters into paying that much.
This is the biggest one I could find and it produces 8 servings per minute:
http://www.concessionstands.com/SUPER-HIGH-OUTPUT-TORNADO
I'm guessing a "serving" is way less than what you'll have to offer for $6 a bag. So let's say it makes 4 bags a minute, it'll have to run for 21 hours with no time included for cleaning, filling with product, or cooling down to produce 5000 bags. I'm guessing this takes a fuck ton of sugar to make and sugar is probably around $1 a pound. Your dad is a fool, I'm sorry to say. Selling the "trans-am" should have been the first thing that tipped you off.
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>>1940981
dont sell the trans am
i sold mine and regret it
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>>1941127
Cotton candy is awesome.
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Make burritos insteads
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>>1941116
very cool. good for her.
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>>1940981
I'd go with popcorn or kettle corn. High markup and the smell will bring people in. Nobody older than single digits eats cotton candy
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>>1940981
horrible plan imo
try something else and put more thought into it
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>>1940981
damnit ricky you forgot to buy the damn sugar
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>>1941970
Last time I had street snacks it was some peanuts roasted with like, sugar or some shit, I can't really describe it but the smell had people gathering around it in London near Harrods it was incredible and they tasted amazing too.
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>cotton candy
>runners
what is your Dad some sugar drug lord or some shit?
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>>1942036
honey roasted / glazed nuts are the bomb
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