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Established Multi-Concept Mobile Food, Catering and Festival-Vending Business

Extensive Seller Training and Industry Introductions

This is an exceptional opportunity to learn the mobile food and festival-vending business directly from a seasoned industry professional. The seller is willing to remain involved until the buyer is fully trained, comfortable, and prepared to operate the business successfully.

The seller will provide hands-on instruction in event selection, scheduling, purchasing, food preparation, pricing, staffing, equipment operation, inventory planning, event setup and breakdown, and the coordination of multiple locations. He will also personally introduce the buyer to his established network of event organizers, festival promoters, vendors, customers, and other valuable industry contacts.

The buyer is acquiring more than equipment and established business concepts. The transaction includes the seller’s operating knowledge, relationships, practical experience, and guidance, substantially reducing the learning curve for a new owner.

Business Overview

Rare opportunity to acquire a well-established, turnkey mobile food, catering, and event-vending operation serving Long Island, New York City, and surrounding markets. The sale combines three complementary New York street-food concepts:

• A fully equipped specialty food truck
• A beverage operation
• A specialty-foods concession business

The food-truck operation is known for popular street-fair and festival favorites, including sausage-and-pepper heroes, hot dogs, knishes, specialty knish sandwiches, beverages, and related menu items. The business can also accommodate private parties, corporate functions, block parties, fundraisers, community events, and other catered occasions.

The seasonal food operation has been in business since 2006 and creates additional revenue streams that can be operated alongside the food truck or deployed independently at separate events. With the available equipment and sufficient staffing, the business can participate in several events during the same weekend.

The seller reports participating in approximately 50 annual street fairs and festivals, many of which recur at approximately the same time each year, in addition to numerous private functions. On certain weekends, the business may participate in three or four separate events. The seller also reports turning down additional opportunities, providing immediate growth potential for a buyer prepared to increase staffing and accept more bookings.

Seasonal Lifestyle with Weekday and Year-Round Expansion Potential

The business currently operates primarily from April through October 31, offering an attractive seasonal schedule. However, the food truck can be operated throughout the year.

One of the most significant expansion opportunities is to utilize the food truck during the week between weekend festivals. A new owner could establish recurring weekday locations at office parks, industrial areas, construction sites, medical facilities, breweries, corporate campuses, shopping centers, and community gathering places. This would allow the buyer to generate additional revenue from an asset that might otherwise be idle between scheduled festivals.

The truck could also be used for corporate lunches, employee-appreciation events, private catering, school functions, sporting events, holiday markets, and winter events.

Extensive Equipment Package

The sale includes a substantial collection of mobile food-service and event-vending equipment, including:

• Fully equipped Freightliner food truck
• Three-foot portable Big John grill and 3 foot portable Big John grill
• On-truck refrigeration
• Three-compartment sink setup
• Commercial fire-suppression system
• Honda generator
• Additional refrigerator and six-foot freezer
• Auxiliary event grill
• Branded portable service tables
• Two commercial corn roasters
• Five beverage stands
• Ten commercial squeezers
• Five handheld Clover Flex point-of-sale units and 1 square register
• Approximately 20 tables
• Approximately 20 ten-gallon containers
• Two additional Honda generators
• Two specialty-food stands
• Signs, coolers, serving equipment, and numerous miscellaneous operating items

The equipment package provides the infrastructure needed to operate at street fairs, festivals, private functions, catered events, weekday food-truck locations, and multiple simultaneous venues.

Significant Growth Opportunities

A new owner could increase revenue by:

• Operating the food truck during the week between weekend festivals
• Accepting additional events currently being declined
• Adding crews to operate more locations simultaneously
• Expanding corporate and private catering
• Establishing recurring weekday food-truck locations
• Increasing fundraising and community-event relationships
• Extending operations into the winter season with the food truck
• Adding another truck, concession stand, or event setup
• Expanding digital marketing and online booking
• Entering additional geographic markets

This opportunity is well suited for an experienced caterer, food-truck operator, concessionaire, hospitality entrepreneur, family operation, or first-time buyer who values extensive seller training and a gradual transition.

Execution of an NDA (confidentiality agreement) is required. Proof of funds is required to have a conversation with the seller.

Contact Joe Barbuto at JB@JosephBarbuto.com or 516-679-7765.