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Kitchen/Food Scale

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For good or bad, I've developed a following for my BBQ. People actually want to give me money for cooked meats! To support that, I need to get some sort of scale for pricing. I've looked at a few for up to $50. Does anyone have suggestions?

Also, I have a line on possibly being a food vendor (one of many) at an outdoor gathering of 3,000. I haven't done anything like this before. I figure I'd focus on things like chopped brisket sandwiches, pulled-pork sandwiches and sausage wraps. Possibly a way to work some turkey onto the menu too. Any tips?

-TedWagner
Austin, TX
 
Congratulations! Now the fun starts - how do I NOT lose my butt!

Depending on the size scale you need (1#, 5#, up to 25#) I'd go electronic. They ain't cheap but customers seem to trust them. Don't forget to price your product with a real, not imagined, profit. Don't sell cheap - that's not good for you, the customer, or other food vendors.

For events -- for your first "big" event pick ONE thing you do really well and sell the heck out of it. Right now wraps are big so if you're doing pulled pork (a good bet since mad cow has everyone freaking out about beef) offer a sandwich or a wrap - tortillas or flatbread have good food cost and good customer appeal.

If you wanta do turkey check out getting presmoked turkey legs and heating them in your cooker - sacrilidge? NO, just reality! You can't buy turkey and cook it yourself as cheap as the volume "fair food" purveyors so just go with it. Personally, I'd leave it alone and just go with what I do best.

Just my $.02 worth. Have fun, make money!! :D
 
Not to get too tecnical, but if you are useing the scale to weigh food for sale you have to have one that is certified or can be certified by your state. Most digital scales over $20 will work, although the old look of a dial scale is nice.
 
TedWagner said:
For good or bad, I've developed a following for my BBQ. People actually want to give me money for cooked meats! To support that, I need to get some sort of scale for pricing. I've looked at a few for up to $50. Does anyone have suggestions?

Also, I have a line on possibly being a food vendor (one of many) at an outdoor gathering of 3,000. I haven't done anything like this before. I figure I'd focus on things like chopped brisket sandwiches, pulled-pork sandwiches and sausage wraps. Possibly a way to work some turkey onto the menu too. Any tips?

-TedWagner
Austin, TX

I'm guess that you have checked Ace-Mart. A couple of locations in Austin but I usually go to the one on Lamar. Fairly complete catalog available online.

Let us know if you get in as a vendor and what the event is, or PM the info if you prefer. Being a sometimes Austinite I'd like to stop by, say howdy, and sample the product.
 
Thanks for the ideas. I checked Ace-Mart, target, walmart and bed bath and didn't find what I was looking for. Mark's like to the digital on ebay led me to saveonscales.com, where I found an upgrade to that model...it's on the way at $60 incl shipping. A bit more than I wanted to spend, so I hope it's worth it. I'll keep you posted.

I'll probably have many more catering related questions in the next few weeks as I look to start getting gigs...any/all ideas are appreciated as I'm pretty sure there's a bunch of experience in the group.

Cheers,
Ted
 
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