Wonderfall
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I don’t know if in your area you have a Golden Corral but they damn near offer you a carnival ride to come to their place. Now I can’t front out of all of the TROUGH places to eat in the world Golden Corral seems to have the best quality. Now buffets have been around forever and while I prefer Chinese Buffets with Crab Legs in Virginia; GC has taken the bullshit to a new level. First it was the Chocolate Wonderfall and now they are offering Cotton Candy!
All I can imagine is some kid sticking his hand all the way in the Chocolate Wonderfall and now there are bits of carpet in the chocolate. Or I imagine some college cat putting a pizza slice under it and now a pepperoni is floating in the chocolate. But, when the Cotton candy came up I though WTF is this about? Now I know I won’t be going to GC in the future because who wants Cotton Candy but a kid?
On the Chips side of the game it’s brilliant as they are using differentiation to separate themselves from the other buffets. I know they get all that food for 100 bucks and you end up paying 13 dollars for 2 bucks worth of food, so I love the model. I know in the time of this Great Recession people are looking for a way to feed the whole family and they don’t want to cook. I know bigger people eat a lot more on average (as I do) so you see a lot of hefty folks copping a squat on a chair approaching it’s weight limit. So overall I get the hustle!
But, cotton candy and a chocolate fountain! Damn, if I knew the only thing I needed to add to my restaurant was a chance for you to get a Sno-Cone I would be shocked. I have to dig in the crates and remember all the carnival food like caramel corn and corn dogs and funny shaped straws for the drinks when I blow up my restaurant angle. Who in the world knew people would want to stick a piece of pineapple into a chocolate fountain so much that you would pay 13 bucks just to get the chance. What a hustle!
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I need to open my eyes a little wider because when I saw the commercial for the chocolate thing I didnt think “genius”, I thought “nasty” and “health code violation” because all I could imagine was kids dunking chicken legs in it or sticking their face under there trying to drink it.
See cats like you and me thought of kids fvcking up the chocolate. The masses are happy to stick anything in the chocolate. And, when we remove all emotion and analyze the chips we see GENIUS angle as that chocolate wonderfall costs pennies but they found a way to make people happy to try it.
Freeman the other day on the “Fright Complex” blog I stated that I was doing the water hustle. The city I stay in the church’s are giving away free water, how do I compete with this so the people will buy water from me?
Make sure you aren’t anywhere near those churches when you set up shop. If you want to parlay the hustle see if they can buy the water from you. Then you can go find the water for a cheaper price wholesale and supply them at the same price they would buy it from Sam’s club.
But, overall make sure your hustle ain’t nowhere near where cats can get it for FREE. Usually a church will do that because of a heatwave so it might be temporary to help the elderly. But, remember the cat who is looking for free will never pay. So those are Customers you would never have. Can’t get a bootlegger to ever buy legit as his angle is the comeup. So don’t even think of those customers as a loss.
@bossdiva (hope she revisits this post to see this). i did the water hustle also back in 09 but i added freemans twist to it and sold gatorade too. go get a big case of the little bottles. not the 24oz bottles you see in gas stations but the really small kid lunch sized bottles. its like $8 at meijers for 36. the gatorade will move like “testers” on the 1st & 15th.