Another hot one
Thursday, July 10th, 2008
Not too much to report, just that it’s been hot and sales have been steady. We’re selling near record amounts of bags in Springfield constantly, so I hardly have time to sit down and have lunch. This goes on for 6 hours straight. At this point we physically can’t pop much more unless we get a third person to help. I’m gonna start looking into making a motorized kettle cover which can stir the stuff while I bag. I guess we’re now the victims of our success. The days are starting to feel like a grind. I barely have time to shoot any silly video.
I seem to be turning into the Internet kettle corn answer man. Because we have such high rankings on Google, everyone finds us first. A bunch of people who’ve started their own kettle corn biz have been asking me all sorts of questions on how to do it. One guy in California got access to a large event of 23,000 people. Apparently he buys a kettle from North Bend Originals and asks me how much supplies he would need to make 25,000 bags of kettle corn. I tell him that 100 bags an hour is a full throttle, flat out amount of kettle corn that is almost humanly possible to make. I also tell him that after 8 hours of this, you’d want to put a bullet in your head.
I then get an email from him saying that he NOW got the specifics of the event and he probably won’t be doing it. They want $400 per day AND 25% of the net. (I was wondering if they at least paid for the anal lubricant.) I explained the math to him and he agreed that it wasn’t worth doing it. A typical farmers market only wants $15 out of you. I’ve recently gotten offers from some “big” events in my area and I just laugh when I see the entry fees.
