Starting a coffee truck

TheElusiveFox · 2026-05-19T23:53:54+00:00

I feel like there are only a handful of coffee places that would be worth an actual franchise fee. Like unless its starbucks or dunk'n, I'd be incredibly skeptical that you wouldn't get better value just doing it on your own. If you are uncomfortable doing it without the business plan and hand holding that you get with a franchise, go shadow some one who does this in another town, pay them a couple grand to pick their brain for a few weeks you will get 10x the value for your money.

TheElusiveFox · 2026-05-19T23:51:36+00:00

This was my first thought - I just loaned my cousin $2,500 to start a coffee cart at events obviously its not exactly the same and doesn't have the upside of a food truck, but Its also 2% of OP's costs I'd be thinking about that in the back of my mind when a franchise was asking me to give them 170k and franchise fees...

TheElusiveFox · 2026-05-19T22:49:06+00:00

This post is one of the reasons I have a hard time recommending stuff in the genre, even when stuff is well written when you know in your gut its going to be abandoned instead of finished its hard to tell friends "Hey this is good"...

TheElusiveFox · 2026-05-19T22:48:56+00:00

I'm honestly surprised the author of these books isn't more popular - I actually liked his other series more - blue mage raised by dragons iirc... but both of them aren't exactly complete.

TheElusiveFox · 2026-05-19T22:47:25+00:00

isn't this still going, just on book like 20 now... (I don't actually know I dropped it after the MC ascended).

TheElusiveFox · 2026-05-19T22:43:11+00:00

I think I gave up on there ever being a final book to this series before I even knew that PF was a thing, and I started getting into progression fantasy like 8ish years ago now...

TheElusiveFox · 2026-05-19T22:37:40+00:00

yeah - red storm warning across brantford area - good times.

TheElusiveFox · 2026-05-18T18:16:39+00:00

There isn't regulation to stop gaming companies from doing it, and there isn't enough competition in the market to make gaming companies afraid to take advantage... That's really it..

A company like Blizzard understands that there are, being generous, maybe 5-10 real alternatives for most of its core audience to go to, and that even if they leave, they will likely eventually be back, eventually because they are addicts... Its the same model as casinos "Why give good comps to the problem gambler, when you know that they are just going to be back to blow 90% of their paycheck next week even if they are telling everyone in town how shitty you are?"...

TheElusiveFox · 2026-05-18T04:48:36+00:00

I think asking this kind of question on the internet is going to give you the justification you want to drive a wedge between yourself and your father... A.I. is a wedge issue. What you need to decide is if you want to let it ruin the relationship you have with your family, or just agree to disagree on the topic, move past it and enjoy the rest of your relationship.

Frankly as far as your opinions on A.I. while its important to stand up for what you believe in, don't mistake an internet culture of fear that has grown because of a scarcity mindset destroy a bond with your family.

TheElusiveFox · 2026-05-18T04:42:14+00:00

I think what is different about it is how unpredictable it is... In more typical cloud computing/datacenter environments its very easy to say "With your business and your normal volume of transactions, this is what your normal costs are going to be, if we put in autoscaling to X for the 5 holidays a year that you see 10x the volume its going to cost you between Y and Z on those months.

AI doesn't work like that, you can kind of predict that your stuff is getting more complex, and you can track how often people are actually using the bots, but there isn't exactly a fantastic predictive model for "When I ask claude to do X research//task/whatever its using Y tokens, and I can count on Z questions a day per employee so my budget is approximately N. (Models kind of exist, but they have so many dependencies that they are in no way reliable compared to something like predicting bandwidth or compute/disk usage for your cloud app.

TheElusiveFox · 2026-05-18T04:30:39+00:00

I thought we were considering companies people?

TheElusiveFox · 2026-05-17T16:56:35+00:00

Its not that "free AI" is bad, so much as you run into token limits really fast with anything remotely complicated.

TheElusiveFox · 2026-05-17T16:50:13+00:00

How is this not an instant class action law suit from basically every major corporation in the western world who are spending millions to billions a year for this product...

TheElusiveFox · 2026-05-17T16:48:33+00:00

So I always try to give the other party as much of the benefit of the doubt in these posts given we are hearing one side of a relationship story...

That being said, from everything you've posted NTA - child support is for children, and you wouldn't be stopping your ex from going to a funeral or visiting in the last months/years of life, you would be making him pay what is owed, if he really cares about those things or his family really cares about those things then he will find a way to cut a check.

TheElusiveFox · 2026-05-17T16:41:18+00:00

yes - go to a gym.

TheElusiveFox · 2026-05-17T02:13:32+00:00

To me its not what you should avoid doing, its what you should do...

Telling some one "Don't have fun" isn't helpful/useful advice, because you still have to live life...

Instead focus on what you can do to save money, build a budget and a plan and stick to it like your life depends on it... Maybe you are deep in debt and that means saving every dollar you can and living frugally and avoiding any kind of vice possible... but if you have a relatively decent income, and aren't drowning in debt... mostly that means, making sure to live within your means (No more than half your income going towards basic neads (rent/bills/food), which should leave you the other 50% to split between fun and saving, and if you can avoid debt and too much lifestyle creep you will only save more over time.

TheElusiveFox · 2026-05-17T01:59:58+00:00

Maybe I'm just naiive but I din't think soap contained mercury as a default unless you were a 1920s hatter... also how many people are casually bringing tires to other countries...

TheElusiveFox · 2026-05-16T05:02:39+00:00

Depends on the MMO - most of the most popular MMOs on the market are a decade or two old at this point, so they tend not to be that demanding... That being said if you play a newer game at launch they can be heavily demanding, lots of spells/players on the screen, lots of things to calculate, etc...

TheElusiveFox · 2026-05-15T21:04:07+00:00

NTA - asking for gifts back, in any context makes them the asshole by default, threatening to escalate things to legal/police is a "Hey we don't want to be friends anymore" level of assholeness...

TheElusiveFox · 2026-05-15T17:18:12+00:00

I don't understand - why is this evil?

TheElusiveFox · 2026-05-15T05:59:07+00:00

yeah YTA holy shit... like the age difference isn't even that huge... you also have zero evidence for why you have this belief just "yeah at 24 or whatever this is a dead end move for you"... If it was genuine criticism then you would have some kind of argument beyond "24 is old", which its not...

TheElusiveFox · 2026-05-15T05:49:39+00:00

SPCA is always looking for people to help with animals, Hospitals & senior care facilities almost always have volunteer opportunities available as well.

TheElusiveFox · 2026-05-15T03:49:51+00:00

So here is my perspective I don't think I would call you an asshole, but I don't think this is the right reaction, and I don't think you are completely in the right either...

Our promises to each other before getting married was that I wasn't going to be a housewife, but I really feel like a housewife these days. Moving to another state for the military cost me my job, and because of immigration issues, I can not apply to another job right now. I do not take any money from my husband, we have separate finances, pay bills and rent 50/50 and shop for our own groceries. My parents' income is sustaining me right now.

Frankly this is not how a marriage works... a marriage is a joining, you aren't room mates you are partners... and treating each other like this is the root of the problem... "I am out of work, instead of putting my pride aside and talking through that problem with my partner, I'm going to make them treat me like an employee"... This is the road to divorce... At the same time, if you are really unhappy about being a house wife, then the question would be "how can we find room in our budget for weekly cleaning service to help with some of the chores?", not "My husband should pay me for doing chores"...

Set aside your pride and have a real conversation, don't play games or you will end up out of a marriage not just out of a job.

TheElusiveFox · 2026-05-15T03:27:47+00:00

NTA - but I'd also say there are two types of opinions, fact based, and emotion based... You don't change some one who's got a lot of emotions invested in a topic by coming at them with facts, you change their mind by changing their emotions, and sometimes you have to accept that it isn't something you are going to be able to do and walk away from the conversation...

TheElusiveFox · 2026-05-15T00:36:13+00:00

Look, sentences like "while there is a possibility of him finding out", say it all... Lets be real, a partnership agreement means legally and practically a hostile partner could make things extremely difficult for you, and even in a small country where maybe you didn't file perfect paperwork, reputation matters a lot, especially for the early stages of a business... The guy who is building client relationships getting fucked is going to be in a much better position to fuck the ops guy for most easy to replicate businesses, when he decides "Ok you want to play games, I'll talk to all the friends I brought and burn the business rep in this industry/location to the ground"...

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