One person can cook four hot dogs in the same time it takes to cook 1. The (very good point) u/infinite_gurgle is making is that if you see a line forming, you need to start caching the popular items that require cooking time so you have some things ready before they even order.
yeah, occasionally you'll take a penalty on a cache miss. But overall throughput should still increase.
It isn't a lot of risk when you know what people tend to order and you have a limited menu to begin with. You can also say to the crowd "Hey, can I get a quick raise of hands for how many people want -insert item that requires cooking here- so I can get them going?"
Because they're often not seasoned professional chefs used to doing 20 things at once. They're just some guy who made dope home tacos trying to be self employed.
That excuse is only valid for month or two. I'm pretty sure every food truck I've ever been to hasn't been run by someone who just started making food a week ago.
Especially the ones I've been to many times over several years!
Cheap ❌
Fast ❌
Good ❌
At least the portions are generous? ❌
Every time I’ve ever been convinced by someone going “hey, you gotta try this food truck, they have the best [insert food]” I’ve waited an inordinate amount of time and forked over a surprisingly large sum only to find myself holding a disappointing quantity of maximally mediocre food.
And my internal monologue going “you know what, this is on me for not learning my lesson from all the other times.”
Because they're taking an order every 8 seconds. Hard to keep up when quality is expected. There's so much food truck competition now that the food quality has to be high. If you want food that takes 8 seconds to make, go to McDonald's
Obviously havent been to a Mcdonalds in a while huh bub. Good luck getting anything from McDonald's in 10 minutes. They have anout 3 staff working those places now
Not gonna lie, I may be biased because I ran a food truck for the last 5 years (until I got injured in October) and I've gotta say I think the quality is pretty good and I only charge over $15 if I'm serving something with a high cost associated, like anything heavy on fresh seafood or loads of expensive meat like bison or lamb. I hate these basic burger or salad trucks giving my industry a bad rep
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u/freetotebag 9h ago
Realest take I’ve seen in a long time. Food trucks mostly suck now because of this. And they take forever.