#506 - The $60,000 “Food Truck Empire” (No Cooking Required!)
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2018
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
In his quest to understanding the economics of food trucks (also known as food carts), a man creates a blog and podcast that earns $60,000 in a year. He does this part-time—and without owning an actual food truck!
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| 0:30.0 | Hey there friends, listeners and Sadassal School community. |
| 0:38.0 | Welcome back. |
| 0:39.0 | My name is Chris Kylivo. |
| 0:40.0 | We are kicking off a brand new week here. |
| 0:41.9 | This is episode 506. |
| 0:43.3 | Now we're going to talk today about food trucks or food carts. |
| 0:47.6 | In particular, a mobile eating fan who creates a $60,000 part-time food truck empire. |
| 0:53.5 | Now, when it comes to food trucks or food carts, I don't want to sound like a snob because |
| 0:57.1 | I'm certainly not a food truck snob or connoisseur or expert. |
| 1:00.8 | But I have spent most of the past decade living in Portland, Oregon, which I don't know if |
| 1:04.8 | it's the origin of food trucks, but we certainly have a lot of food trucks and food carts there. |
| 1:09.3 | And my opinion on them is that some of them are great and some of them are not so great. |
| 1:13.4 | Just probably like a lot of things in life. |
| 1:15.3 | But I've noticed sometimes when I traveled other cities, like I get out a lot. |
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