I splashed out and bought a ‘99’ from an ice-cream van yesterday – a ‘double’ costing £3.50 and was wondering how much profit these vans could potentially make a day.
The queue at the van was steady and I guess it was serving around 1 or 2 ice-creams a minute. So let’s try an optimistic calculation, at say 2 ice-creams / minute at £2.50 per ‘99’, over 16 hours. I imagine the cost of the ‘99’ ingredients are f-all (a big tub of ice-cream powder mixed with water, and chilled?), but let’s say the vendor is also being ripped off and it’s 50p per ‘99’. So £4 profit per minute, £240 per hour and £3800 a (good) day. Clearly there are a lot of other costs, including paying the local Mafiosi to defend your patch, quiet times, water, parking tickets, etc, so what’s a more realistic estimate of how much an ice cream man could coin out of greedy people with more money than sense per day?
The queue at the van was steady and I guess it was serving around 1 or 2 ice-creams a minute. So let’s try an optimistic calculation, at say 2 ice-creams / minute at £2.50 per ‘99’, over 16 hours. I imagine the cost of the ‘99’ ingredients are f-all (a big tub of ice-cream powder mixed with water, and chilled?), but let’s say the vendor is also being ripped off and it’s 50p per ‘99’. So £4 profit per minute, £240 per hour and £3800 a (good) day. Clearly there are a lot of other costs, including paying the local Mafiosi to defend your patch, quiet times, water, parking tickets, etc, so what’s a more realistic estimate of how much an ice cream man could coin out of greedy people with more money than sense per day?
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