DUmmies Discuss A Really DUmb Idea From DUmmy Grasswire

[DefiantSix]

I predict a Health Department Red Tag within two days.

I'll see your two days and raise you 24 hours.  (actual consecutive hours, not "business" hours). 

[AllosaursRus]

Uh, does this scrunt realize musicians are the poorest people on the planet? 1 out of a hundred might actually make a livin'.

Just who is goin' to buy these pies, that I'm sure will have about a 5 day or less expiration, since I'm even more sure, they won't have any of those nasty preservatives in them?

The stinkin' freeloaders will take up all the seating space, makin' it impossible for payin' customers to non profit her way into success!

This has to be one of the most ridiculous ideas to come down the pike durin' this O'bummer economy that I've heard of since Zero became pres! Does she really think people on unemployment can afford pie???

[jukin]

I'll see your two days and raise you 24 hours.  (actual consecutive hours, not "business" hours). 

I assumed the typical government efficiency.

[Karin]

I still think this is one of the funniest threads.  So I rowed over.  They're all whooping and cheering, all ecstatic, just bubbling over.  I just can't believe how naive they are. 

Anything to do with food:  Slimmest of margins.  High regulations and hurdles.  You can't just make stuff in your own kitchen and sell it.  You need a commercial kitchen or it's not allowed.  Even hotdog carts have to have a certified commissary commercial kitchen as their station, with some states requiring a Serv-Safe certification.  I feel terrible for her eventual disappointment, but you just have to do your homework.  And she's looking to support herself AND give the bulk to charity?   I'm surprised nobody has gently suggested such things to her.   Seeing how much they just love regulation.  You can't just take any hippy-dippy chick, let her whomp something together and feed it into the public food supply. 

[Skul]

I wonder what the "House Special" will be?
Dingleberry Pie, perhaps?

To be honest, I kinda wish her luck.
After a couple months of enlightened liberal friends demanding
just a little bit bigger piece of pie with extra soy ice-creme,
she'll be signing up as a CC memember.

[Chris_]

I still think this is one of the funniest threads.  So I rowed over.  They're all whooping and cheering, all ecstatic, just bubbling over.  I just can't believe how naive they are. 

Anything to do with food:  Slimmest of margins.  High regulations and hurdles.  You can't just make stuff in your own kitchen and sell it.  You need a commercial kitchen or it's not allowed.  Even hotdog carts have to have a certified commissary commercial kitchen as their station, with some states requiring a Serv-Safe certification.  I feel terrible for her eventual disappointment, but you just have to do your homework.  And she's looking to support herself AND give the bulk to charity?   I'm surprised nobody has gently suggested such things to her.   Seeing how much they just love regulation.  You can't just take any hippy-dippy chick, let her whomp something together and feed it into the public food supply. 

Some states allow selling of home-cooked food, but the Health Department will come to your house and inspect your kitchen just like any other commercial restaurant.  I didn't notice if they had any provisions for special equipment (you mentioned stainless steel).

[DefiantSix]

I assumed the typical government efficiency.

I assumed that the first 3 or 4 "paying customers" who got sick in that rat-infested tinder box would cause even the bureaucrats of a city government to expedite their efforts to shut down an "eminent threat to the health and safety of the general public".

[GOBUCKS]

How many hunks of pie does it take to pay the utilities for a ramshackle abandoned building during a Wisconsin winter?

[Karin]

As long as I'm post-whoring this thread, let me point out:

The business model will allow me to solicit startup funding and corporate sponsorships

 

[AllosaursRus]

I still think this is one of the funniest threads.  So I rowed over.  They're all whooping and cheering, all ecstatic, just bubbling over.  I just can't believe how naive they are. 

Anything to do with food:  Slimmest of margins.  High regulations and hurdles.  You can't just make stuff in your own kitchen and sell it.  You need a commercial kitchen or it's not allowed.  Even hotdog carts have to have a certified commissary commercial kitchen as their station, with some states requiring a Serv-Safe certification.  I feel terrible for her eventual disappointment, but you just have to do your homework.  And she's looking to support herself AND give the bulk to charity?   I'm surprised nobody has gently suggested such things to her.   Seeing how much they just love regulation.  You can't just take any hippy-dippy chick, let her whomp something together and feed it into the public food supply. 

Wait 'til she gets a load of her insurance bill, sellin' perishables! That in itself will more than likely put this pipe dream to bed!

[Karin]

Not to mention a very hefty workers comp insurance bill, paid in full before they'll even issue a health dept permit.  Even if it's just you.  I'm just talking NY of course, but it's just the facts that likely apply in Wisconsin.  I know a lot about this stuff that Grasswire, with her sparkly moonbat eyes, just does not. 

Did you know my workers comp covers my part-time girls, should one of them get knocked up?  Unbelievable.  (No, I don't run a cathouse.) 

I'll stop now. 

[JohnnyReb]

As mentioned above, she'll soon learn the joys of  self employment..... ....oh, it's so much fun.

[DefiantSix]

As mentioned above, she'll soon learn the joys of  self employment..... ....oh, it's so much fun.

It is, for those who aren't expecting everything to be handed to them while they lay back and wait for the profits to start rolling in.

I've done some pretty interesting work over the course of 23 years working in my field for others (and some pretty mind-numbingly boring stuff at the same time), and none of it has been as much fun for me as I've had - doing the same basic job - working for myself.