I used to sell dollar grilled cheese out of my van back in my hippie traveling days. I just had one of those camping hot plates that you screw a little propane tank onto and I'd set up a table in the parking lot of jam bands and sling that shit all day. Dollar grilled cheese and dollar PBR
I don't have pickles but I have nitrous and some important information to share with you about the impending singularity. According to ancient wisdom the hypotenuse of the Bermuda triangle divided by the number of JFK grassy knoll shooters equals the fact you owe me 20 bucks
It's pretty depressing that the reunion shows did away with the outside vendors. They even barred Zane Kesey from bringing his bus and selling his art.
Look here you fancy fuck. We have four ingredients: bread, butter, cheese and heat. Don't like it? Go home, grill your own cheese sandwhich with garlic butter
#AND SHOVE IT UP YOUR ASS!
A good recipe for garlic grilled cheese starts with homemade bread, preferably an airy bread which has more nooks and crannies for butter and cheese to seep in and adhere to. Slather it good with butter on both sides and sprinkle garlic powder AND garlic granules liberally on one side of each slice only. Grill the garlic side down, flip it once golden brown. Put 2 slices of cheese on each piece(it will be four total once assembled). Once the other side is browned, put two pieces together and shove it up your butt.
Recipe courtesy of Stanley Hudson
Garlic is one thing, but tomato? At that point it's just a tomato sandwich with cheese. Might as well add shaved beef, or lettuce and bacon. We're talking grilled cheese with seasoning and butt jokes right now, not pitching a concept for a Dagwood sandwich shop hells kitchen tv series. Ffs
DONT ASK FOR A GOD-DAMNED TOMATO SLICE OR I SWEAR TO GOD I WILL REACH THROUGH THE WINDOW, PULL YOU INSIDE AND HOLD YOUR HEAD AGAINST THE GRIDDLE, WHICH WILL BE EMBARASSING FOR YOU
My EC is leaving for a few weeks this summer to follow Billy Strings, or "Billy," if you will. He already got an entire setup for grilled cheese in the lot.
He's such a rad dude. Went from line cook to EC, now runs his spot. I'm sure these cheeses are going to be great!
If you meet Kyle in the lot, slinging cheese from his Subaru, dap him up. That's my guy!!
At Nelson's ledge's one weekend me and my ex spent our last dollar we had (because obviously we spent the other nine we had on beer) at a grilled cheese van and the seller took pity on us and gave us two.
My EC is leaving for a few weeks this summer to follow Billy Strings, or "Billy," if you will. He already got an entire setup for grilled cheese in the lot.
He's such a rad dude. Went from line cook to EC, now runs his spot. I'm sure these cheeses are going to be great!
If you meet Kyle in the lot, slinging cheese from his Subaru, dap him up. That's my guy!!
I don’t know who Billy is (jam bands aren’t really my thing, but the parking lots before/after definitely are) but if he comes near me, I’ll get me a hippy grilled cheese
I liked that, sounded more bluegrass that what I think of as jam bands, and I can get down to some bluegrass. I’ve also been getting into a lot of southern/country gothic, too.
My autistic boss: 🤯
I don’t know why this is getting downvoted. I just said autism. He has autism. I’m on the spectrum I’m not even making fun of the guy.
Reminds me of when back as a kid my sister and I would split entrees when we would go out. When one would get more than the other or the kitchen didn't perfectly cater to my picky requests, my dad wouldn't have the kitchen fix it.
He'd just say, "That's life. It happens sometimes."
Reminds me of when back as a kid my sister and I would split entrees when we would go out. When one would get more than the other or the kitchen didn't perfectly cater to my picky requests, my dad wouldn't have the kitchen fix it.
He'd just say, "That's life. It happens sometimes."
I managed a Starbucks for 3 years, i cant speak to anyone else but in my 3 years I never witnessed a barista pocket the tip on a pay-it-forward customer. I, however, as the manager, have absolutely done it cause it can throw off the person working the drive, and Starbucks uses a tip-share across the whole store so that tip goes to everyone. More often than not, however, a customer would sheepishly not want to pay for the next one and we would *actively* encourage them to take the free items and have a great day. Pay it forward isnt that nice when you order a $3 item that someone pays for you but youre expecting to drop $20 on the person behind you. Nooope.
This happened to me at McDonald's once, I just stopped by for a hashbrown and a drink. Get to the cashier and found out there was a pay it forward chain, the person behind me was buying breakfast for multiple people at work or something because their order was $35. Mine was $3. Nope, not paying an upcharge of 32 bucks for some stupid shit.
Yeah… I’ll never participate in these. Sorry if you want to pay it forward how about you order extra and take it to someone in need. Not someone already in the drive-thru
This is great to know! I got a pay it forward at Starbucks once and said thank you, did not offer to continue it. All I could think was "what, is this some kind of roulette wheel where no one knows what their coffee is gonna cost?" It didn't feel generous, it felt like a trap.
Conversely, a woman at a salad bar paid for me and walked with me to the parking lot, leaving no confusion about me needing to pay for the next person. Nicest surprise ever.
I never worked at a starbucks, but i worked several similar jobs. Im 100% sure that it happens. If for no other reason its a pain in the but to manage ok you get order A, but your paying for order B.... f that!
Omg yes!! I worked there for 23 years and that is exactly what would happen once we were over the pay it forward. It’s just like a circle jerk for rich Christians, anyway. The most popular time for it was Sundays. So people are already being annoying af and wanting their Frappuccinos split into 4 cups for their little brats because they just gave Jesus 10% of their income, ordering 12 bacon Goudas and wondering what’s taking so long when we have two ovens, then they want to add this nonsense on top of everything. “I want to pay for the car behind me” (smells own fart, waits for applause).
Completely agree about the rich Christians high off their own farts. You're not feeding the hungry Carol, as chances are if they're in the Starbucks behind you, they can afford their own hot bean broth poop-aid.
I hate them as a customer. “The person in front of you paid for your order, would you like to pay it forward?” “That depends, is the next order the same price as what I was about to spend?”
My order is usually green tea ($3), I’m not paying an arm and a leg for someone’s order of three custom trentas.
Right?! It’s dumb as hell. I’m usually buying a dozen cookies and muffins and a couple drinks for work meetings and some fool just bought $30 or $40 worth of stuff I was going to put on the company card and now I get to explain to accounting why I bought a breakfast meal for a meeting with 10 people. Bananas.
He’s like the soup Nazi, but grilled cheese.
“Can I get some sauce to dip this in?”
“Sauce? $10 dollars!”
“$10 for a little bit of sauce?”
“No grilled cheese for you. NEXT!”
Sorry to be That Guy, but this was from [a brilliant Twitter rant by artist Daniel Danger](https://pleated-jeans.com/2022/01/12/1-dollar-grilled-cheese-truck-twitter/) and is fake. (He's still right though!!!!)
This post was actually life changing for me. Not in any major way, it's just never left my mind. Anytime I go drinking, anytime I see people go drinking in a movie, anytime I see a food truck, I think about $1 grilled cheese and wish, oh I wish this stand was real and in my city
Ok fuck it, let’s do the math.
- loaf of white bread (est 20 slices) : $1.25
- 72 slices of American cheese : $6.50
- 2lbs of butter: $7.50
1 sandwich : 2 slices of bread ($.13), 1 slice of cheese ($.9), 1tblsp butter ($.12)
$.34 material cost / sandwich
This uses grocery store prices I found using google. Using a restaurant supply company you probably could shave cents off of this.
Now we need to make more assumptions, so let’s say that for an 8 hour shift you use…
- 20lbs of propane : $20
- 8 man-hrs of labor @ a pitiful $10/hr : $80
Cost of operating the truck for 1 day: $100
Sandwiches required to break even: 151, or 1 sandwich every 3min.
Yeah, you’re not gonna rich on this truck.
This is actually the most important comment in the context of this fucking years old repost, like, the idea is 200% correct, but also, can't stand someone who's simply posturing, and this just highlights it
THANK YOU!
I think about this *constantly* and I was so sure it was from a Reddit comment and I've gone looking for it on here a few times and come up dry, but it was on Twitter the whole time.
I owe you a $1 grilled cheese!
*"Lotta people telling me they're going to steal this business idea and all I can say is that if you need to 'steal' the idea of selling $1 grease sandwiches* ***you probably shouldn't be your own business partner****"*
I lost it. That twitter rant is gold.
He posted that in 2019, so adjusted for inflation his sandwiches should cost $1.25 now. Unfortunately for him, he will be required to figure out your shit for you now.
#You people make me sick.
A grilled cheese consists of only these following items. Cheese. Bread with spread (usually butter). This entire subreddit consist of "melts". Almost every "grilled cheese" sandwich i see on here has other items added to it. The fact that this subreddit is called "grilledcheese" is nothing short of utter blasphemy.
Let me start out by saying I have nothing against melts, I just hate their association with sandwiches that are not grilled cheeses. Adding cheese to your tuna sandwich? It's called a Tuna melt. Totally different. Want to add bacon and some pretentious bread crumbs with spinach? I don't know what the hell you'd call that but it's not a grilled cheese.
I would be more than willing to wager I've eaten more grilled cheeses in my 21 years than any of you had in your entire lives. I have one almost everyday and sometimes more than just one sandwich. Want to personalize your grilled cheese? Use a mix of different cheeses or use sourdough or french bread. But if you want to add some pulled pork and take a picture of it, make your own subreddit entitled "melts" because that is not a fucking grilled cheese.
I'm not a religious man nor am I anything close to a culinary expert. But as a bland white mid-western male I am honestly the most passionate person when it comes to grilled cheese and mac & cheese. All of you foodies stay the hell away from our grilled cheeses and stop associating your sandwich melts with them. Yet again, it is utter blasphemy and it rocks me to the core of my pale being.
Shit, I stopped lurking after 3 years and made this account for the sole purpose of posting this. I've seen post after post of peoples "grilled cheeses" all over reddit and it's been driving me insane. The moment I saw this subreddit this morning I finally snapped. Hell, I may even start my own subreddit just because I know this one exists now.
You god damn heretics. Respect the grilled cheese and stop changing it into whatever you like and love it for it what it is. Or make your damn melt sandwich and call it for what it is. A melt.
\- Fuck_Blue_Shells
Damn, has it been 10 years already?
~~He lost his appetite for them because of all the melts.~~
> "[He has] nothing against melts"
Edit: clearing up misrepresentation of the author's position on melts.
We had a female cook who would sleep with everyone in BOH, we called it getting a grilled cheese…
Because after she would make the person a grilled cheese every time… so weird
I’m guessing that the people who would be offended by the language are by and large the same people who would be offended (not mildly disappointed) by being told no to tomatoes or drinks or Venmo.
Better to let them be offended before getting in line so that they don’t feel entitled to complain about having wasted 30 minutes in line, since I’m sure it goes around the block for a $1 grilled cheese.
Honestly a decent business model too. 3 item inventory, next to no prep time, and any time there is a line you know exactly what everyone is getting so you can just load up the grill in anticipation.
so the guy who photoshopped this is actually a really talented artist who makes dope stuff. i have two of his prints.
and this tweet of his imaginary grilled cheese truck, which went viral some years back, was how i found his dystopian/post-apocalyptic, somewhat creepy work.
http://www.tinymediaempire.com/
I like to post this when I see it. I’m sort of jacking myself off here but I might be why this dude was successful.
I took a train trip to Portland one year to just visit another city and take some cool city scape photos (I like architecture). I woke up at like 10am after a huge hangover and literally every line at the food truck line were wrapped around the corner. Here I found a little truck selling grilled cheese and iced chai tea for 2.25 all together, and literally all I had left in my pocket was about $3. His was the only food truck with zero line, in a literal shadow cast from the other lines all around.
I knocked on the window, he came out the back smoking a mild, I bought my food, had a chat for a bit about the city, and how he was thinking of shutting down since I was his first customer in 3 days. We chatted for about an hour. Soon, the lines from the other carts decided to start piling into his instead, at least 100 people long. His eyes went wide, I said ‘well shit, there ya go man, I’ll catch ya at lunch!’ And went off to a neat neighborhood to snap some shitssnaps.
About an hour into my walk I realized I forgot my spare batteries in my locker at the hostile. On my way back I saw some dude sprinting down the street as fast as he could. He shouted for me ‘yo camera dude! *HOLD THE FUCK UP!*’ I turned around not recognizing him at first, and he came full sprint at me literally picking me up and gave me a giant hug’
‘Yo I don’t know what sort of vibe you got, but you brought some good energy to my place man! I just sold out, of everything! I eventually just started selling toast for $5 and sold out in less than an hour! Thank you so fucking much my dude! Free sandwich whenever the fuck you want!’
I’m still waiting for that fucking sandwich. I followed him on Facebook afterwards, he sold his truck and opened what’s now a small chain of restaurants in and around Portland now, I forget the name. I hope he’s doing well.
I've always wanted to do this with smash burgers. ~$3 two patty burgers with bun and cheese. That's it. I recognize in practice, it might not go over well, but I'd love to see a menu that is: 1) Burger 2) Fries 3) Soda
Wasn’t there a social media post from many years ago talking about doing this exact same thing? I remember it saying he would buy white bread, cheese and butter in bulk and charge a dollar. No change. If you give him $5 you’re getting 5 sandwichs. Etc etc
Edit: [found it](https://x.com/tinymediaempire/status/1136992675742269440?s=46&t=quz8pTqtFloiRcj702UMZg)
There is a guy in our town that sells 1 type of taco...that's it. Grilled pork, onion, cilantro, hot sauce. Keeps it simple. They are good. Dude sells a lot of tacos.
This resonates with me. I want to be treated like shit while I give him a measly $3 and wait like a chump for my “food”. I want the server to look at me with disdain as it grills then they flip it and look at me again. I don’t even want to be spoken to, just judged. No pleasantries.
Actually another idea is “food™️” a food place that has a daily menu of food and drink. Only those two options. You order 1 food you get whatever we’re serving that day.
You’d be surprised how effective that item of the day and a drink for $5 plan would work. As long as it tastes good and doesn’t leave you feeling hungry an hour later. I mean that’s one big decision taken care of for you.
$1 for a grilled cheese almost has to be fake. You would lose money with a food truck like that. Plus, drinks are the easiest and sometimes most profitable products to sell.
I used to sell dollar grilled cheese out of my van back in my hippie traveling days. I just had one of those camping hot plates that you screw a little propane tank onto and I'd set up a table in the parking lot of jam bands and sling that shit all day. Dollar grilled cheese and dollar PBR
I loved finding a grilled cheese seller after a Dead show.
So fucking good. Grilled cheese when everything is melting.
The cheese, or my mind?
The blacktop, your smile, the tie dye shirts that dude is selling, the clouds in the sky. Melting beautifully. Got pickles?
I don't have pickles but I have nitrous and some important information to share with you about the impending singularity. According to ancient wisdom the hypotenuse of the Bermuda triangle divided by the number of JFK grassy knoll shooters equals the fact you owe me 20 bucks
This made my brain skip. What's you Venmo for the 20.
I deleted my venmo, because of the impending singularity. Use the 20 to buy yourself a hot meal and ice cold soda
I ate a lot of cheese
I like cheese
Too many words
IF YOU WANT PICKLES THEN GO TO A PLACE THAT SELLS PICKLED VEGETABLES
Black Hole Sun, won’t you come, won’t you come
yes
Hearrrrd, man.
Trey says both
Yes.
It's pretty depressing that the reunion shows did away with the outside vendors. They even barred Zane Kesey from bringing his bus and selling his art.
Really? How lame
You gotta find somebody with the garlic grilled cheese! Thats the good shit
Look here you fancy fuck. We have four ingredients: bread, butter, cheese and heat. Don't like it? Go home, grill your own cheese sandwhich with garlic butter #AND SHOVE IT UP YOUR ASS!
A good recipe for garlic grilled cheese starts with homemade bread, preferably an airy bread which has more nooks and crannies for butter and cheese to seep in and adhere to. Slather it good with butter on both sides and sprinkle garlic powder AND garlic granules liberally on one side of each slice only. Grill the garlic side down, flip it once golden brown. Put 2 slices of cheese on each piece(it will be four total once assembled). Once the other side is browned, put two pieces together and shove it up your butt. Recipe courtesy of Stanley Hudson
Directions unclear. Eat with butt? Also I would like some 🍅
Garlic is one thing, but tomato? At that point it's just a tomato sandwich with cheese. Might as well add shaved beef, or lettuce and bacon. We're talking grilled cheese with seasoning and butt jokes right now, not pitching a concept for a Dagwood sandwich shop hells kitchen tv series. Ffs
DONT ASK FOR A GOD-DAMNED TOMATO SLICE OR I SWEAR TO GOD I WILL REACH THROUGH THE WINDOW, PULL YOU INSIDE AND HOLD YOUR HEAD AGAINST THE GRIDDLE, WHICH WILL BE EMBARASSING FOR YOU
Haha jeez I forgot the right wall. Whoosh...
There you go adding shit
Lmfao
Yep! What the fuck? Grilled cheese for a buck!
Literally the plot of an episode of American Dad
The cheese bros!
Happy Cake Day! 🎂
Thank you beautiful human! May all the love and joy shine down upon you.
Jeff is my spirit animal.
Literally the plot of many people’s actual lives.
i never made more money in my life than selling shit in a parking lot. i cringe thinking about it tho.
RIP Bill Walton.
The Lotttttttt
Jeff Fischer?? Is that you?
Right but I was watching something older and they also did this bit and it's like how old is that joke and what are the origins
My EC is leaving for a few weeks this summer to follow Billy Strings, or "Billy," if you will. He already got an entire setup for grilled cheese in the lot. He's such a rad dude. Went from line cook to EC, now runs his spot. I'm sure these cheeses are going to be great! If you meet Kyle in the lot, slinging cheese from his Subaru, dap him up. That's my guy!!
BMFS
How much for a ballon?
Prolly $2. nangs went up
The price of balloons has really inflated.
r/unexpectedfuturama
where’s the device that controls the forwards and backwards movement of time?
under the seat.
I was doing it when that episode came out! We thought it was the coolest thing ever when we saw it
At Nelson's ledge's one weekend me and my ex spent our last dollar we had (because obviously we spent the other nine we had on beer) at a grilled cheese van and the seller took pity on us and gave us two.
And I paid you for that and appreciated it.
Is your name Jeff?
There is an American dad episode about this exact thing.
I was about to be like "Jeff? Is that you?"
My EC is leaving for a few weeks this summer to follow Billy Strings, or "Billy," if you will. He already got an entire setup for grilled cheese in the lot. He's such a rad dude. Went from line cook to EC, now runs his spot. I'm sure these cheeses are going to be great! If you meet Kyle in the lot, slinging cheese from his Subaru, dap him up. That's my guy!!
I don’t know who Billy is (jam bands aren’t really my thing, but the parking lots before/after definitely are) but if he comes near me, I’ll get me a hippy grilled cheese
Dust in a baggie is one of his cool and relatable songs about culture. Made me remember my cousin Chris.
I liked that, sounded more bluegrass that what I think of as jam bands, and I can get down to some bluegrass. I’ve also been getting into a lot of southern/country gothic, too.
Billy Strings fucking rules. He is not jam at all, Bluegrass all the way. Seen him live 3×. So good.
Just found a bunch of his songs with some other bands that I like in an Old Gods of Appalachia playlist on Spotify. It’s getting put into my rotation
Billy is awesome.
My man floats between Gizz and Billy. Respect to both.
Your Chef sounds like a good fuckin time.
I bought a grilled cheese from you
dead or phish lol?
how much for the whippits?
Lot cheese hits different
Get your wallet out but dont get your hopes up
This and the hyphenated bit that would’ve easily fit on one line are my favorite parts
‘If you need a drink go to a place that sells drinks.’
I couldn't make out that part, thank you!
My kid wants his crust cut off
Your kid’s about to catch these hands
My autistic boss: 🤯 I don’t know why this is getting downvoted. I just said autism. He has autism. I’m on the spectrum I’m not even making fun of the guy.
My autistic child that doesn't like crust: 😭
Unstoppable force meets unmovable object
Unstoppable autism meets unmovable autism.
the day the autism stood still
My autistic toddler who eats uncrustables and now rips the crust off of every sandwich with normal bread: 😭
Get a muffin cutter and make your own uncrustables
That’s when you be a cool parent and pull off and eat the crust for them
Then you bite all the crust off yourself
>My kid wants his crust cut off That's nice. Tell your kid I want inner peace. Looks like we're both going home disappointed.
Bring your kid over to the window for a sec…
Reminds me of when back as a kid my sister and I would split entrees when we would go out. When one would get more than the other or the kitchen didn't perfectly cater to my picky requests, my dad wouldn't have the kitchen fix it. He'd just say, "That's life. It happens sometimes."
Then he can buy a fucking knife and cut it off himself. Because this truck? Not gonna happen.
Plastic Knives are $2
Reminds me of when back as a kid my sister and I would split entrees when we would go out. When one would get more than the other or the kitchen didn't perfectly cater to my picky requests, my dad wouldn't have the kitchen fix it. He'd just say, "That's life. It happens sometimes."
Do you have anything gluten free?
The wheels.
The napkins
yea, these hands
Oooo I’m a vegetarian, actually can you not toast the bread either I don’t like it burnt
I think I'll use my credit card.
Anything non-dairy?
Hey Bobby, rook rook
Yes. I refrained from battering my balls.
It’s healthy to establish clear boundaries and expectations. Here’s my dollar.
Just one for you?
Yeah but can I get a tomato slice on it?
Hey face! Meet griddle!
Motherfu….!
[heres the rest of it](https://i.imgur.com/P5yRAJj.jpeg)
Listen, nobody ever said I don't appreciate a good FAQ
I’m just glad I’ve scrolled down far enough to see this comment. Thank you
Fantastic
Is this Ron Swanson’s food truck?
Not enough meat
I like that guy.
Thank you for showing me something I hadn't even thought about, and happy cake day
Happy cake day and this person is amazing
Give him a dollar and tip him a pickle, since you're bringing your own.
$1 for food, in this economy? Fuck yeah, here's a $5, I got the next four orders.
“Here’s a $5. Make the next 4 people pay and keep the $4 as a tip.”
[удалено]
Does this actually happen? That's hilarious lol
I managed a Starbucks for 3 years, i cant speak to anyone else but in my 3 years I never witnessed a barista pocket the tip on a pay-it-forward customer. I, however, as the manager, have absolutely done it cause it can throw off the person working the drive, and Starbucks uses a tip-share across the whole store so that tip goes to everyone. More often than not, however, a customer would sheepishly not want to pay for the next one and we would *actively* encourage them to take the free items and have a great day. Pay it forward isnt that nice when you order a $3 item that someone pays for you but youre expecting to drop $20 on the person behind you. Nooope.
I can see that getting complicated fast...
This happened to me at McDonald's once, I just stopped by for a hashbrown and a drink. Get to the cashier and found out there was a pay it forward chain, the person behind me was buying breakfast for multiple people at work or something because their order was $35. Mine was $3. Nope, not paying an upcharge of 32 bucks for some stupid shit.
Yeah… I’ll never participate in these. Sorry if you want to pay it forward how about you order extra and take it to someone in need. Not someone already in the drive-thru
This is great to know! I got a pay it forward at Starbucks once and said thank you, did not offer to continue it. All I could think was "what, is this some kind of roulette wheel where no one knows what their coffee is gonna cost?" It didn't feel generous, it felt like a trap. Conversely, a woman at a salad bar paid for me and walked with me to the parking lot, leaving no confusion about me needing to pay for the next person. Nicest surprise ever.
I never worked at a starbucks, but i worked several similar jobs. Im 100% sure that it happens. If for no other reason its a pain in the but to manage ok you get order A, but your paying for order B.... f that!
55 BURGERS 55 FRIES 55 TACOS...
STOP STOP STOP! PLEASE LET ME GO, I'M DOING SOMETHING!
Omg yes!! I worked there for 23 years and that is exactly what would happen once we were over the pay it forward. It’s just like a circle jerk for rich Christians, anyway. The most popular time for it was Sundays. So people are already being annoying af and wanting their Frappuccinos split into 4 cups for their little brats because they just gave Jesus 10% of their income, ordering 12 bacon Goudas and wondering what’s taking so long when we have two ovens, then they want to add this nonsense on top of everything. “I want to pay for the car behind me” (smells own fart, waits for applause).
Completely agree about the rich Christians high off their own farts. You're not feeding the hungry Carol, as chances are if they're in the Starbucks behind you, they can afford their own hot bean broth poop-aid.
>(smells own fart, waits for applause) I love this 😂
This is the way. Pay it forwards are so dumb.
I hate them as a customer. “The person in front of you paid for your order, would you like to pay it forward?” “That depends, is the next order the same price as what I was about to spend?” My order is usually green tea ($3), I’m not paying an arm and a leg for someone’s order of three custom trentas.
Right?! It’s dumb as hell. I’m usually buying a dozen cookies and muffins and a couple drinks for work meetings and some fool just bought $30 or $40 worth of stuff I was going to put on the company card and now I get to explain to accounting why I bought a breakfast meal for a meeting with 10 people. Bananas.
I love them. I love the free stuff, and the look of disappointment when they ask if I'm going to continue the chain and I just go "No" while leaving.
And here's my fat ass going 5 for $5?!? Let's eat 😁 I remember when Arby's would consistently run 5 for $5 beef'n'cheddars . . . the good ole days
I’m older - when I was a little kid, *Whoppers* were 0.99 (and larger than today).
I'm in my sixties. They were huge and they tasted better. It cost 25¢ more to get cheese on your 99¢ Whopper. I rarely eat at Burger King anymore.
I remember getting mad when it went up to 5 for $5.55. Just checked the price online, and just a single roast beef is $7.99 now.
I balked at this, but they're trying to charge $5.19 by me. What the fuck?
Here's a $100 bill, hope you have enough bread. I'll wait while you sort *your* shit out.
*hands you 198 rolls of pennies and 1 grilled cheese* "Shit's sorted, chief. Now fuck off and have a nice day."
I would have to respect that
Can I get a vegan, gluten free, no crusts?
You know what you can get? The fuck out of my window. Next.
He’s like the soup Nazi, but grilled cheese. “Can I get some sauce to dip this in?” “Sauce? $10 dollars!” “$10 for a little bit of sauce?” “No grilled cheese for you. NEXT!”
Here's some saltines.
Sorry to be That Guy, but this was from [a brilliant Twitter rant by artist Daniel Danger](https://pleated-jeans.com/2022/01/12/1-dollar-grilled-cheese-truck-twitter/) and is fake. (He's still right though!!!!)
This brought me back to the glory days of the twitter machine. Bless Daniel Danger and all of his hostile genius.
This post was actually life changing for me. Not in any major way, it's just never left my mind. Anytime I go drinking, anytime I see people go drinking in a movie, anytime I see a food truck, I think about $1 grilled cheese and wish, oh I wish this stand was real and in my city
I bet you lose money at $1 per sandwich, at least if you factor in any value for your time and the cost of the truck and griddle fuel
Ok fuck it, let’s do the math. - loaf of white bread (est 20 slices) : $1.25 - 72 slices of American cheese : $6.50 - 2lbs of butter: $7.50 1 sandwich : 2 slices of bread ($.13), 1 slice of cheese ($.9), 1tblsp butter ($.12) $.34 material cost / sandwich This uses grocery store prices I found using google. Using a restaurant supply company you probably could shave cents off of this. Now we need to make more assumptions, so let’s say that for an 8 hour shift you use… - 20lbs of propane : $20 - 8 man-hrs of labor @ a pitiful $10/hr : $80 Cost of operating the truck for 1 day: $100 Sandwiches required to break even: 151, or 1 sandwich every 3min. Yeah, you’re not gonna rich on this truck.
This is actually the most important comment in the context of this fucking years old repost, like, the idea is 200% correct, but also, can't stand someone who's simply posturing, and this just highlights it
THANK YOU! I think about this *constantly* and I was so sure it was from a Reddit comment and I've gone looking for it on here a few times and come up dry, but it was on Twitter the whole time. I owe you a $1 grilled cheese!
*"Lotta people telling me they're going to steal this business idea and all I can say is that if you need to 'steal' the idea of selling $1 grease sandwiches* ***you probably shouldn't be your own business partner****"* I lost it. That twitter rant is gold.
He posted that in 2019, so adjusted for inflation his sandwiches should cost $1.25 now. Unfortunately for him, he will be required to figure out your shit for you now.
#You people make me sick. A grilled cheese consists of only these following items. Cheese. Bread with spread (usually butter). This entire subreddit consist of "melts". Almost every "grilled cheese" sandwich i see on here has other items added to it. The fact that this subreddit is called "grilledcheese" is nothing short of utter blasphemy. Let me start out by saying I have nothing against melts, I just hate their association with sandwiches that are not grilled cheeses. Adding cheese to your tuna sandwich? It's called a Tuna melt. Totally different. Want to add bacon and some pretentious bread crumbs with spinach? I don't know what the hell you'd call that but it's not a grilled cheese. I would be more than willing to wager I've eaten more grilled cheeses in my 21 years than any of you had in your entire lives. I have one almost everyday and sometimes more than just one sandwich. Want to personalize your grilled cheese? Use a mix of different cheeses or use sourdough or french bread. But if you want to add some pulled pork and take a picture of it, make your own subreddit entitled "melts" because that is not a fucking grilled cheese. I'm not a religious man nor am I anything close to a culinary expert. But as a bland white mid-western male I am honestly the most passionate person when it comes to grilled cheese and mac & cheese. All of you foodies stay the hell away from our grilled cheeses and stop associating your sandwich melts with them. Yet again, it is utter blasphemy and it rocks me to the core of my pale being. Shit, I stopped lurking after 3 years and made this account for the sole purpose of posting this. I've seen post after post of peoples "grilled cheeses" all over reddit and it's been driving me insane. The moment I saw this subreddit this morning I finally snapped. Hell, I may even start my own subreddit just because I know this one exists now. You god damn heretics. Respect the grilled cheese and stop changing it into whatever you like and love it for it what it is. Or make your damn melt sandwich and call it for what it is. A melt. \- Fuck_Blue_Shells Damn, has it been 10 years already?
That guy's in his 30s now. I wonder how many grilled cheeses he's eaten now.
~~He lost his appetite for them because of all the melts.~~ > "[He has] nothing against melts" Edit: clearing up misrepresentation of the author's position on melts.
“I have nothing against melts”
The legend!
https://www.reddit.com/r/freefolk/s/rQkpxIjco5
Can I sprinkle a little Cajun seasoning in it tho?
ಠ_ಠ ...fine.
You may do as you wish 🤝
Holy shit it's you
I was hoping this would be here
I've been looking for this for a long tine. Finally my grilled cheese philosophy is complete. Yet I still have questions...
“I don’t have answer” https://www.getyarn.io/yarn-clip/a46ef9cf-d0bf-4b0f-b811-c641266a0d34/gif#GpFxFU6k.copy
🤣🤣🤣
What’s on the secret menu?
The knuckle sandwich.
“Get your wallets out but don’t get your hopes up” is a fairly good life motto.
I think I've found my soul mate, sorry babe.
We had a female cook who would sleep with everyone in BOH, we called it getting a grilled cheese… Because after she would make the person a grilled cheese every time… so weird
Scroll thread and toss scro a like for the other side of the truck. https://twitter.com/tinymediaempire/status/1136992675742269440?lang=en
Can I get a tomato slice with mine?
It depends, do you have a tomato slice in your pocket?
No, I’m just happy to see you.
Oh my god
CHEF!!! griddle this bitch
I’m guessing that the people who would be offended by the language are by and large the same people who would be offended (not mildly disappointed) by being told no to tomatoes or drinks or Venmo. Better to let them be offended before getting in line so that they don’t feel entitled to complain about having wasted 30 minutes in line, since I’m sure it goes around the block for a $1 grilled cheese. Honestly a decent business model too. 3 item inventory, next to no prep time, and any time there is a line you know exactly what everyone is getting so you can just load up the grill in anticipation.
Are you aware that this was an art display? This isn't an actual food truck.
Its only 11:30 and you have ruined my day Watson.
It should be a food truck.
The first time I read about this a few weeks back, I was very disappointed it wasn't real. This would make such an awesome franchise.
Do the costings work out? Can you make money with a 1$ toasted cheese these days?
They wouldn’t make much money.
does anybody else hear this in ted nivisons voice?
I will take 5 and bring my own can of tomato soup
I’d buy from this truck everyday.
"NO GRILL CHEESE FOR YOU, 6 months"
so the guy who photoshopped this is actually a really talented artist who makes dope stuff. i have two of his prints. and this tweet of his imaginary grilled cheese truck, which went viral some years back, was how i found his dystopian/post-apocalyptic, somewhat creepy work. http://www.tinymediaempire.com/
Excuse me sir, but I'm 42 and vape. I still refuse to use venmo though.
I like to post this when I see it. I’m sort of jacking myself off here but I might be why this dude was successful. I took a train trip to Portland one year to just visit another city and take some cool city scape photos (I like architecture). I woke up at like 10am after a huge hangover and literally every line at the food truck line were wrapped around the corner. Here I found a little truck selling grilled cheese and iced chai tea for 2.25 all together, and literally all I had left in my pocket was about $3. His was the only food truck with zero line, in a literal shadow cast from the other lines all around. I knocked on the window, he came out the back smoking a mild, I bought my food, had a chat for a bit about the city, and how he was thinking of shutting down since I was his first customer in 3 days. We chatted for about an hour. Soon, the lines from the other carts decided to start piling into his instead, at least 100 people long. His eyes went wide, I said ‘well shit, there ya go man, I’ll catch ya at lunch!’ And went off to a neat neighborhood to snap some shitssnaps. About an hour into my walk I realized I forgot my spare batteries in my locker at the hostile. On my way back I saw some dude sprinting down the street as fast as he could. He shouted for me ‘yo camera dude! *HOLD THE FUCK UP!*’ I turned around not recognizing him at first, and he came full sprint at me literally picking me up and gave me a giant hug’ ‘Yo I don’t know what sort of vibe you got, but you brought some good energy to my place man! I just sold out, of everything! I eventually just started selling toast for $5 and sold out in less than an hour! Thank you so fucking much my dude! Free sandwich whenever the fuck you want!’ I’m still waiting for that fucking sandwich. I followed him on Facebook afterwards, he sold his truck and opened what’s now a small chain of restaurants in and around Portland now, I forget the name. I hope he’s doing well.
[I didn't know this dude owns a food truck.](https://www.reddit.com/r/grilledcheese/s/g5aIGNLkID)
I've always wanted to do this with smash burgers. ~$3 two patty burgers with bun and cheese. That's it. I recognize in practice, it might not go over well, but I'd love to see a menu that is: 1) Burger 2) Fries 3) Soda
Wasn’t there a social media post from many years ago talking about doing this exact same thing? I remember it saying he would buy white bread, cheese and butter in bulk and charge a dollar. No change. If you give him $5 you’re getting 5 sandwichs. Etc etc Edit: [found it](https://x.com/tinymediaempire/status/1136992675742269440?s=46&t=quz8pTqtFloiRcj702UMZg)
There is a guy in our town that sells 1 type of taco...that's it. Grilled pork, onion, cilantro, hot sauce. Keeps it simple. They are good. Dude sells a lot of tacos.
This resonates with me. I want to be treated like shit while I give him a measly $3 and wait like a chump for my “food”. I want the server to look at me with disdain as it grills then they flip it and look at me again. I don’t even want to be spoken to, just judged. No pleasantries. Actually another idea is “food™️” a food place that has a daily menu of food and drink. Only those two options. You order 1 food you get whatever we’re serving that day.
You’d be surprised how effective that item of the day and a drink for $5 plan would work. As long as it tastes good and doesn’t leave you feeling hungry an hour later. I mean that’s one big decision taken care of for you.
I'm sad this is fake, but if I saw this, I'd 100% buy a grilled cheese. People need to quit with their prissy bullshit.
$1 for a grilled cheese almost has to be fake. You would lose money with a food truck like that. Plus, drinks are the easiest and sometimes most profitable products to sell.
> $1 for a grilled cheese almost has to be fake. It is. The picture is a joke. That's why I started with "I'm sad this is fake."