HotDog Bicycle Trailer

[Zac121]

Hello All,

Just needed some help,
I'm planning to make a HotDog cart here in Scotland, The HotDog cart will have a full size Bain Marie and it would be run on gas bottles ( used to heat up hot dogs and warm up buns, I will also have a sink which would be for washing hands and this would run on a 12V battery, I'm also planning to have a small fridge OR a cooler bag for holding upto 40 or so cans of soft drinks (if fridge (12V powered))

I plan to sell the following
hot dogs that come already cooked (so just need to heat them up to the correct temperture) with buns for the hot dogs
Soft drinks, Crisps & Sweets

I have looked everywhere but have not found the answers for the questions below.

1. Is there a limit on how long I can make the cart, the way it looks like the design I thinking of, is going to be around 1 and half meters in length.

2. Do I need to have hot water supply or is cold water supply fine.

3. Is there anything I'm forgetting.

I plan to sit the Food & Hygiene Level 2 course, and get a hawker licence for a street food vendor

Any help or advice would be appreciated.

Kind Regards
Zac

 

[Deleted member 226268]

One and half metres is hardly enough room to store even two gas cylinders.
You need something like this >>>

http://picmia.com/1309864-the-unive...ead-cart-was-designed-and-built-by-boulders-b

 

[Zac121]

Thank you Dave Archer, do you know what the size limits are. 1 and a half meters is the trailer alone and the bike length is on top of that, if that makes any sense.
thank you for your input

 

[The Byre]

Do it right and it's just bonkers enough to work! Ask your local council which rules for hygiene and safety apply.

Where in Scotland are you?

 

[Zac121]

Thank you The Byre, Yes I have a meeting with the local council next week, so I just wanted to take some ideas to the meeting, I'm in Edinburgh .

 

[Clinton]

Build it on a rickshaw frame and you'll have plenty of place for gas bottles, fridge and, ahem, even the kitchen sink.

 

[The Byre]

Ideal for the long Edinburgh tourist season. Everything will depend on what the bawheids at the council have to say!

Personally, were I to be staggering up the Royal Mile, a hotdog with mustard to keep me going would be very welcome!

Haggis with mustard? You know the gig, just for the tourists! Though come to think of it, I am more than just a bit partial to a haggis with mustard! I would just concentrate on hot food (haggis, hotdog etc.) and forget the complications of chilled drinks and doofus packets of crisps.

Now all that talk of haggis has made me hungry!

 

[Zac121]

Thanks The Byre, Great idea there, Haggis sounds good, yeah I wasn't too keen in soft drinks crisps etc either, they would take up too much space for little profit.
Thanks again

 

[Zac121]

Thank you Clinton, a rickshaw frame sounds good and strong for everything I need for the trailer. I need to look into it and see if it's easy enough for me to build.
Thank you

 

[The Byre]

I've got friends coming here from London tomorrow - I'll put some Kennomeat in a bag and tell them it's a haggis. A good dollop of Lidl's mustard and they never know the difference!

 

[Zac121]

Hey The Byre that could work lol

 

[smallclaimsassistance]

@The Byre "I've got friends coming here from London tomorrow - I'll put some Kennomeat in a bag and tell them it's a haggis. A good dollop of Lidl's mustard and they never know the difference!"

You ought to take that onto Dragons' Den. You'd get funding in a heartbeat!

 

[Ally Maxwell]

Hello All,

Just needed some help,
I'm planning to make a HotDog cart here in Scotland, The HotDog cart will have a full size Bain Marie and it would be run on gas bottles ( used to heat up hot dogs and warm up buns, I will also have a sink which would be for washing hands and this would run on a 12V battery, I'm also planning to have a small fridge OR a cooler bag for holding upto 40 or so cans of soft drinks (if fridge (12V powered))

I plan to sell the following
hot dogs that come already cooked (so just need to heat them up to the correct temperture) with buns for the hot dogs
Soft drinks, Crisps & Sweets

I have looked everywhere but have not found the answers for the questions below.

1. Is there a limit on how long I can make the cart, the way it looks like the design I thinking of, is going to be around 1 and half meters in length.

2. Do I need to have hot water supply or is cold water supply fine.

3. Is there anything I'm forgetting.

I plan to sit the Food & Hygiene Level 2 course, and get a hawker licence for a street food vendor

Any help or advice would be appreciated.

Kind Regards
Zac

Level 2 food hygiene is so easy an exam to pass, you'd need to have your eyes shut and a partial lobotomy to fail. Do it online. It will seriously take you less than an hour to read the course and pass the exam.

As the Byre said, your biggest stumbling block would be them crazy nutters in Edinburgh council but I could see it working in the summer months.

Hot food tricycles are not that uncommon. Google some images to get some ideas of design.

 

[The Byre]

@The Byre "I've got friends coming here from London tomorrow - I'll put some Kennomeat in a bag and tell them it's a haggis. A good dollop of Lidl's mustard and they never know the difference!"

You ought to take that onto Dragons' Den. You'd get funding in a heartbeat!

All my entrepreneurial hopes and dreams for Kennomeat Haggis have been dashed. No Dragons Den for me. No 5% of my company for £50,000. No Deborah Meaden (as played by Harry Enfield) telling me that I have a damn cheek to come on the show, unable to project my gross profit for the next ten years.

Alas, but Kennomeat is no more!

But then - "Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, which we ascribe to Heaven."

I shall have to use something else!