GYRO, DUMPLING & JERK: The Best Food Trucks On Wall Street

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New York's hottest dining trend -- the food truck -- has popped up on many corners of the Financial District.

Last month we asked you where you got your favorite "street meat." The consensus is in — Wall Street foodies seemed to prefer Veronica's Kitchen and Rickshaw Dumpling Truck. However, they don't seem to be fans of DessertTruck or Kiflu's Lunch Truck.


http://www.businessinsider.com/best-food-trucks-financial-district-2011-10?op=1

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1. These food trucks aren't cheap anymore - that used to be part of the appeal.

You could buy something hot, filling and fairly low on the "processed" scale for about half of what you'd pay in a real deli or buffet.

Now, some of these trucks are MORE expensive than the delis.

[DainBramaged]

2. Had a great friend years ago made a fortune with a food truck

Buck-A-Dog


Every hot dog was a buck. you wanted condiments, extra .25. Wanted onions or kraut, .50. Hamburgers $2, same scale for the extras. Fries, $1 .

he made so much money at 40 he retired to Florida, bought a house, and franchised the business. Last time I talked to him he was thinking about Buck-A-Cookie...........

[monmouth]

3. I swear either he or one of his employees is right down here in West

Palm. Usually parked by the Court House and the best hot dog evah! $1.00 and can of soda is $.50..

[DainBramaged]

6. Buck-A-Dog works everywhere

25 cents for the dog, 25 cents for the over head, 50 cents profit. Sell 1000 dogs a day and you make $100 profit (or so you tell the government.......

[Motown_Johnny]

4. This is gonna sound crazy,but....

....when I went to the most highly accredited culinary school in the world (at the time) an instructor there told the class that the best business to get into was a hod dog stand, we laughed.


The overhead is so low and the markup so high that as long as you have the volume you can make a lot of money, as your friend did.

Of course none of us went to culinary school to make hot dogs, but maybe we should have.

[Fire Walk With Me]

5. Or he could go into Chinese food with Buck-A-Duck...

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I like the sound of his venture. Decent food for cheap is very important. Well-deserved success...

[Crabby Appleton]

7. In SF and LA they have "Nom nom trucks"

with Vietnamese food.

http://nomnomtruck.com/

[DainBramaged]

8. DID YOU SAY NOM NOM?