@Boner_18 I’ll answer any questions but I’m still in the early stages and still learning and figuring shit out. This side hustle started during Covid with restaurants closing and me buying up ovens and fridges to fix up and clean and flip for a profit. I ended up buying an oven from a catering company and went back the next day and bought almost everything they had for sale. That’s how I started the table and chair gig
In the beginning it was renting to people I knew and friends of friends. All cash no contracts. This year, within the last 2 months I set up a llc. I’m having a lawyer draw up a formal contract with disclaimers and shit, so going forward they can only come after the business and not me. I bought a box truck. Have plans to also use the box truck to cook out of for events.
I load and unload myself. I have no employees, as for storage I have a trailer on my property I use to store the table and chairs. Long term thoughts that need to be researched more is to take the equipment I kept that is my garage and rent a spot for a commercial kitchen. Rent the space out to other private chefs to use. And use the space myself to try and sell food to the events that need tables and chairs. Need to look into catering licenses and alcohol licenses. I also bought a horse trailer that I might turn into a mobile bar but that’s a winter project. I’m really just concentrating on renting tables and chairs at the moment. And maybe linens. I rented 5 60” circular tables today for $15 a table. Seems like linens from my research would be $15 minimum per table. I am bartending more than I thought I would be for my buddies restaurant. But that’s how I get a lot of my leads. So I not spending a lot of time on this. I’ll just grind out what I can this season and hopefully fine tune the business this winter and set proper goals.
