I love cooking and I love people loving my cooking. However, I don’t like getting told what to do for long term, so working in a kitchen or restaurant is probably a bad position for me. I’ve given years of thinking about working or running a food truck with a rotating menu. It’d be cool to travel around and see different people a day enjoying my different dishes, but I’ve never actually heard the everyday ins-and-outs of working in a food truck. What are some experiences (good or bad) working in a food truck that you could share?

    • AlecSadler@sh.itjust.works
      8·
      2 months ago

      OP, please take this succinct statement to heart.

      I’ve owned or adjacently owned or been involved with multiple businesses. It always starts out as excitement, it always turns in to paperwork and lawyers and permits and licenses.

      I loved the people, the customers (some), the employees, etc. but I always spent more time doing business shit than the things I loved doing. And it erodes your soul over time.

      Now, if you end up with an award-winning thing and can afford to pay for some help with some of that stuff? Hell yeah. That’s the dream. But it can be tough to get there.

      • superkret@feddit.org
        3·
        2 months ago

        Also, if you hire someone else to do the business stuff, you’ll add managerial tasks to your workload.

        • sem
          3·
          2 months ago

          Also they might steal from you, or just do a bad job maybe.