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Previously on "Selling ice cream"
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Cash businesses are a top opportunity for a scam though. My charming ex-brother in law runs a string of mobile discos - he once bragged to me about how any gig for which he gets paid cash gets marked as "cancelled" in his diary and never happened - only those for which he is paid by cheque are declared. Farming used to be famous for it, too.
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I know someone who bought one of these
http://bicycleandukulele.files.wordp...6/img_1128.jpg
and makes a fortune selling Ice Creams up and down Blackpool prom during the 'summer'
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Originally posted by TimberWolf View Post<snip>....So let’s try an optimistic calculation, at say 2 ice-creams / minute at £2.50 per ‘99’, over 16 hours. <snip>?
Even 8 hours would be pushing it a bit for people's leisure time.
Edit : I hate that - beaten to it again.
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Originally posted by TimberWolf View PostI splashed out and bought a ‘99’ from an ice-cream van yesterday – a ‘double’ costing £3.50 and was wondering how much profit these vans could potentially make a day.
The queue at the van was steady and I guess it was serving around 1 or 2 ice-creams a minute. So let’s try an optimistic calculation, at say 2 ice-creams / minute at £2.50 per ‘99’, over 16 hours. I imagine the cost of the ‘99’ ingredients are f-all (a big tub of ice-cream powder mixed with water, and chilled?), but let’s say the vendor is also being ripped off and it’s 50p per ‘99’. So £4 profit per minute, £240 per hour and £3800 a (good) day. Clearly there are a lot of other costs, including paying the local Mafiosi to defend your patch, quiet times, water, parking tickets, etc, so what’s a more realistic estimate of how much an ice cream man could coin out of greedy people with more money than sense per day?
tim
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I was just thinking ...
Women are like ice cream.
The tastier they are, the more likely they are to give you a terrible headache.
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Originally posted by TriggerHippy View PostI broke into an ice cream van last night.
I got away with hundreds and thousands.
IGMC
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Originally posted by TimberWolf View PostI got just one cornetto for me.
Magnum.
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Originally posted by TriggerHippy View PostI broke into an ice cream van last night.
I got away with hundreds and thousands.
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I broke into an ice cream van last night.
I got away with hundreds and thousands.
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Our local one here plays "yankee doodle dandy"; might not go down too well in the arab countries.
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Originally posted by EternalOptimist View PostAnd the latest from CNN 'an Iraqi spokesperson has refused to confirm or deny a Fatwah was issued regarding a 'Mr Whippy' of Terhan. The ice cream vendor was found in his mobile Mosque this morning surrounded by hundreds and thousands, sprinkles. Police say he topped himself'
I think you should sell it on the internet like its 1999
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I recently got ripped off buying an ice cream off some Indian dude in Gibraltar. It was called a raspberry mivvi - I paid the guy 3 pounds for it and when I got out the shop I saw on the wrapper that it said not to be sold individually. I unwrapped it and immediately saw that this ice had been defrosted and refrozen many times over. Not wanting to get botulism and feeling understandably more than a little pissed I returned and splatted the now half melted ice all over the guy's shop counter. Lucky I didn't choose to cram it in his frikkin face.
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Originally posted by AlfredJPruffock View PostAn IceCream van which gives the impression of being a Mobile Mosque - my goodness - the Ice-Creams will fly out- as they say in the trade.
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Originally posted by TinTrump View PostStart the ice cream van biz over here; I've only seen 1. 25 degrees even in the winter; its 40 now. You may have to 'arabise' the usual crappy tune otherwise you may just confuse the locals. Hmmm, that might not work either as you may be mistaken for a mobile mosque with a whirly onion dome. And you could use camel milk to reel the punters in.
Anyhow, there's the idea, someone else sort out the detail.
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Originally posted by Grinder View PostIt was on the radio this morning that the industry is in decline with only 5000 vans left, there having been 20000 10 years ago.
If its that good a business, you would expect it to be booming!
The chief reason given was competition with supermarket ice cream prices.
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