Hot Sauce Aspirations
I was having a phone conversation with one of my new chilehead compatriots last night, and we talked about some similar desires about having our own hot & spicy food business. For me, it’s a hot sauce shop. Not an online retailership, mind you, but a real brick & mortar business where I could mingle with other chileheads coming in to shop & shmooze…and to be able to spread the chilehead gospel to the uninformed & inexperienced masses.
One curious thought I had was, how many of us collectors & hot sauce aficionados have similar aspirations???
We can’t be the only ones out there who think about stuff like this…right? Their are fanciful plans in place for us to do something, but who knows when that will be.
Plans? Thoughts? Ideas? Anyone?
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Commented at October 27, 2006- 6:24 pm
starting with manufacture. 2 recipes set. hopefully wan’t be long now.
Commented at October 27, 2006- 9:22 pm
Currently getting costs for going into business…Dave and I will need financial backing…
Commented at October 28, 2006- 3:50 pm
I’ve thoughts of trying to make a sauce that sells, and starting a business manufacturing the stuff, then I thought that it woul be far too time consuming doing all the research, getting the permits, UPC codes, etc… Also thought many times about having a hot sauce shop (both online and brick and mortar), but then again, it would be too time consuming to try and keep up with public demands and run a shop as a second job until it took off enough that I could quit my day job. Though this has all happened by accident really, I’m happy designing labels and such for the industry. Have an online gig selling my wife’s sauce, but that’s about all I want to handle…call me lazy
Commented at October 29, 2006- 8:21 am
What a dream that would be! Making a living selling sauce would be utopia! Just imagine talking to people all day long about the virtues of different sauces and spices, what you like, what they like, then they buy a whole cart of sauce and go home..only to return again to tell you good (and hot) everything was! Then buy some more. I could talk about Hot Sauce all day, no problem.
Commented at October 31, 2006- 4:45 pm
Some of the best memories I have are traveling with my now-deceased father to Hot Prospects in North Olmstead, OH, and just staying for hours, talking with the owners and sampling their wares. Now that I don’t get back to OH that often and the shop is now unfortunately closed, I sorely miss those times. If you open a shop, hopefully you can generate memories on other people, that I have with my father and hot foods.
Good luck!
Matt Bittner
Commented at October 31, 2006- 5:31 pm
Matt,
Man, that’s a GREAT story! You’re right, stuff like that is worth it’s weight in gold…and it would be great to have your own shop for that reason alone.