Sidewalk

Run to Sal's bodega

Get everything in one trip. Bodega prices are higher than the commissary.

Before the first customer

Calibrate your thermometer

A cup packed with ice and a little water is exactly 32°F. Stir, hold the probe in, and let the needle settle. If it isn't 32°F, turn the nut.

70°Fprobe

Calibration nut

Sixth Ave & 41st St · Bryant Park

Where do you park the cart?

How to work the cart

Tap the cooler to drop a dog on the grill. Yellow ring: tap to flip. Green: it's done.
Tap a done dog to move it to the hot tray or into an open bun. Tap the bun bag, add toppings, then tap the board to serve.
Match the order tickets before their timers run out, or they walk to Tony's.
🧤 after taking cash, 🧊 keeps the cooler at 41°F or below, 🔥 keeps the tray at 140°F or above, 📣 pulls people in. Watch your stock: what you bought is all you have.
Sell from 11:30 AM to 7 PM: lunch rush, a quiet afternoon, then the evening rush. The commissary locks up at 8 and the walk back takes 30 minutes. 🪧 closes up early.

Count the money

Came in

Went out

New hustleChoose your path

Setting the stage…

Chapter one complete

You can afford the food truck!

$5,000 saved. Bigger kitchen, bigger crowds, bigger problems: generators, gray water tanks, parking wars and a whole new set of inspections. Chapter two, the truck, is next.

Out of money

You can't cover tomorrow

Tickets, rent and wasted stock ate your savings. Every vendor in this city has had a week like this.

Run to Sal's bodega

Calibrate your thermometer

Paused

Where do you park the cart?

Stock the cart

Close up for the night

Count the money

Came in

Went out

Back home

Top hustlers

The week

You can afford the food truck!

You can't cover tomorrow