Yeah, that's what I'm talking about. Not that you're in it for the cash, but if it's a wash it's a win for everyone.
Going a bit further down that road... We were out riding around this past weekend with Mr and Mrs ionbeam, who I knew from their prior enjoyment of my BBQ were both fans of the burnt meats. Since we were in the neighborhood, I stopped in at Curtis' All American BBQ in Putney VT, for a little noon time nosh.
Curtis' BBQ is an eclectic little business. He's an older gent from down south somewhere that moved up to Vermont and set up a roadside BBQ stand. Over the years it has grown in reputation and the number of customers he serves, but he still cooks outdoors on an open pit, and the food serving is done out of a couple of old school buses painted bright blue, that have been there so long the wheels have sunk in the dirt up to their axles.
The food is OK, not great. But I'll take OK BBQ over a lot of other OK fare. The kicker is the guy is doing pretty well, even with only so-so Que, always busy on the weekends, and a steady lunch time crowd in the weekdays, and this is out in BFE Vermont, the second least populated state in the country. It wouldn't be very hard to turn your little hobby passion for good smoked foods into a cash cow. You'd be working your tail off, but if that's what you like to do... like Curtis apparently since he is on that pit every single day of the warm weather months that he's open, then how bad would that be?
Here's Curtis