Ok, so I'm just asking if you guys think my plan is feasible.
There's a large festival in my area for summer that spans a weekend, prominently featuring asian street food.
I want to sell pic related (japanese cheesecake) , but mine is less jiggly and would be ~4in diameter.
I would need ~3000 of them for the weekend, and theres no way I can make that many
TLDR: I wanna contract bakeries to make pic related for me. These are souffles in essence, so pretty hard for bakeries to do.
I plan on 1000 a day, picking them up as they are made.
I would be splitting it up between several (eg 5 bakeries, 200 each)
What would you say unit cost would be for these if I actually got bakeries to say yes?
Would anyone even take me up on this?
I want to fuck those buns
call the bakeries and get a quote.
It's probably not feasible. Why would they do this for you when they could just take what they made and make the profits at the festival themselves? Besides, if you come in with a bunch of premade stuff, it's less likely to sell--part of the reason people buy things from carts and food trucks is because they get to watch their food get made fresh.
Get a taiyaki maker and sell taiyaki. Weeaboos go apeshit for it (face it: they'll be your biggest source of income), they're quick to make, and the profit margins are huge. Offer red bean (for the ultra weebs) and chocolate (for the casuals). Don't sell singles.
are those the korean cheese cake things? had one before. huge letdown.
>>7776693
This. It would be incredibly awkward for any shop as an order of that volume in an immediate time span would put your cost at hundreds of dollars. You'd be lucky to find a bakery willing to do it. And like >>7776693
Said just pander motherfucker. Make one or two rice cake cheesecakes and blow the minds of those morons who have seen the webm or the pics of those pancakes, but not researched any further.
>>7776693
True, I wouldn't buy it premade.
OP, do you even have a permit to set up a stand to sell these?
Why not just deal with one bakery and settle for however many they're able to crank out for you? You're idea of contracting 5 different bakeries over the course of multiple days sounds like a disaster waiting to happen.
Those souffle cheesecakes are actually very easy to make and don't collapse easily in my experience. Of course, I haven't made them in those quantities but they're definitely not as fragile as they look.
How large a stand would you have anyway to sell 1000?
I think it's unlikely that a bakery would make these though, unless it's already a product they have sold or sell. And if they sold the product, I don't see why they would sell them to you for you to sell them on again.
>>7776693
because the festival doesn't want them. There are no big businesses selling. Many of the foods sold don't actually show the food making process, only if they grill. The allure is the novelty of the item.
There are many vendors selling takoyaki, I live in southern california so many asian foods arent exotic.
>>7776711
Temporary permit for this event
I think places would sell to me for the same reason there are wholesale sellers. I'm offering immediate profit with no risk of not selling the product. Maybe they'd make me advertise on my banner, maybe I'd have to pay them a service fee on top of the units sold.
Pic is a little more info
>>7778277
Taiyaki and takoyaki aren't the same thing
>>7778302
>>7776693
I assumed it was a typo, sorry
seems like a good alternative actually, thank you
If plan A doesnt pan out, it'll be what i do
>>7778277
1000 a day? That's 2 sold every minute. That's not likely to happen.
Here are some questions you need to know the answers to:
How many will you be able to sell?
What are the ingredients per each or batch?
Where will you source the ingredients and how much will they cost? Will the bakeries supply the ingredients themselves?
What kind of a FC% do you want on them?
How will you serve them? Boxes?
How will you transport them?
How will you keep them cold?
Do you need your own stand? Hand washing sink? Cash register? If you're selling 2 per minute you are going to need 2 registers or more.
Will you take credit/debit cards?
What are the requirements for the health department? Do you have a food handler's permit?
>>7776698
why? I've always wanted to try one, why was it a letdown?
>>7778376
well, the 40k was from 2012, last year was 60k people attending. The lines don't stop, the only places with short lines are trash tier/boring foods, and my food doesn't seem boring at least.
1. in the process of getting metrics from veterans to the festival, but even a cake/minute actually is extremely slow for this event, even for the worst of the bunch. (10 hours)
2. honestly can't tell you for a few more days, fail here for now
3. The bakeries will have large advance notice to supply themselves, however we will get wholesale quotes to ensure the lowest cost option of the two is taken
4. I don't know what you're asking, sorry I'm dumb
5. I believe we'd plate them, plan on selling them plain with a stenciled matcha dusting or decorated with toppings (eg a berry sauce drizzle with a few berries on top)
6. Small van with the ac running, gonna need input on that though
7. We have a chest fridge to chill what's on hand
8. Stand is all in order
9. We're usinf paypal here, but my bank supposedly has an option for us that a friend casually mentioned that I might use
10. All permits are taken care of, blanket temporary vendor license is given upon registration for the event
Pic is of a sister event to this one, a lot less people, smaller venue, but the picture itself is about 2/3rds of the tents
>>7778494
All of those stands look legit and you want to sell cheesecake out of a cooler in the back of your van. Bro. Bro please. Have you ever sold at festivals before?
>>7776452
I got a better idea, chocolate covered bacon. MMM hmmm, chocolate, covered, bacon.
>>7778594
who says I'm selling out of a van
the stands are cookie cutter, everyone has one, it's about banners here
Just make a bunch of these
>>7776452
I just masturbated to this
>>7776667
>>7778786
What is that?
>>7778947
cursory google search says vietnamese honeycomb cake
Knew it was pandan based
>>7778277
>626 Night Market
SGV represent
>>7778494
jesus christ, 1 cake/min is slow?
what festival is this?
>>7779368
It's called 626 night market
less than 100 vendors with 60k foot traffic last year, and it's growing every year
if 3 percent of the people buy then it's 1 per minute, and that's if they only buy one. The food here is all hype, people just want nice pictures, which I can do, if you have a hype food your line never ends
>>7776452
HNNNNNG
>>7779470
Do you need 1000 cakes? can you just make as many as you can, say 300, and close your tent when you sell out?
>>7779514
with my production capacity I would only be able to do maybe 120, I would for sure need to contract. I guess I'm just gonna start asking, I guess I just needed this post to ground me a little more, but I honestly do think if all goes to plan I Can sell 3000 units in a weekend. That is, if I get the cakes and the cakes are of quality
>>7779565
Modify the recipe to be made in muffin tins
>>7779577
this
Make smaller versions if you really need that much volume. Also, I'm sure that people at a festival don't want to carry around full size cakes all damn day.
>>7776452
>>7776667
>dat jiggle
>>7778613
can you get any more hipster meme than that?
>>7779938
That's not hipster, that's inbred bro culture trash meme.
>>7776452
what's the source of OP's webm?
i wanna know what's this
>>7780448
>I'm interested in Japanese things.
Google, you lazy little weeaboo cunt.
>>7780448
I, too, remember when I was too young to know about search engines. Such a hard life to live.
>>7776452
Holy shit that's fucking lewd.
>>7779565
See if you can rent a commercial kitchen? I know there are companies around here that do that.
I don't think anyone would take you up on it and even if they would it still sounds like it won't work to me
Nobody has mentioned this;
You don't want a bakery to do this. You want to contract a catering company to do it.
Go to a caterers and tell them
>I need 3000 of these shits by Sunday or you faggots won't get paid
and they'll do it.
They'll charge out the nose but c'est la vie hon hon
Why don't you rent a commercial kitchen like a normal person? From what I see, cook time is about 1hour give or take. 5 sheets trays holding 48 souffles each gives you 240 per 90 minutes. When the first batch goes in you can prep the second. this is about 7-8 hours in a prep kitchen. We're looking at let's say 30/hour for the kitchen , if your lucky maybe you can negotiate 3 days for 500-700 unlimited access. That sets your costs on one side.
Depending on your recipe, I'd throw your food cost at (5 rotations for 1200 cakes, minus testers and losses, lets call it 1100), about 1200 a day. Without your recipe can't really be more accurate, but I feel you can easily do this for maximum 1$ per portion. This leaves you with plates, and condiments, we'll take on another 400 because I don't feel like looking harder and berries are cheap in Cali.
So quick ballpark we're talking in the neighbourhood of 5k? 4$ a cake, you need to sell 1250 to break even, your generous estimates suggest you can do that in a day. Is it feasible? Sure why not, I'd give it a shot, but I'm also a professional who's done things like this before.A bakery wouldn't do this unless they're desperate for cash. 4in is very specific, stick to the muffin tin idea and charge 4-6$, you can gouge a bit at festivals, people expect it. I believe in you OP
>>7778943
>>7778947
pandan bika ambon
>>7779328
Oh I thought it had weed in it so that was why it was green. If there was a place that sold asian desserts with weed in them and coffee I'd go there every week.
>>7785740
>>7783360
>>7787448
>>7776452
>>7787634
loosk like a vagina with the dicks cum going out of it :D haha
>>7778947
Dewritos cake
